I wanted to create a birthday card for a special friend - she's actually been my mentor for the past year and without her guidance and positivity, I would not be where I am today!
I chose to use A Touch of Ink stamp set - it's a Level 2 SALE-a-bration item that you can earn FREE with a $120 product purchase (before shipping & tax) until the end of February - less than 2 weeks left! I wanted my card base to be fairly subtle, but not white so I chose Soft Seam Foam and paired it with a layer of Merry Merlot (in one of the pictures you can see that this was dry embossed with the Painted Textured 3D Embossing Folder).
I wanted the hummingbird to be feeding off of a hibiscus flower, so I dusted off my Timeless Tropical stamp set and the coordinating In the Tropics dies from the annual catalogue and made myself a hibiscus! I first stamped my Crushed Curry inkpad onto a scrap piece of white cardstock until I was happy with the colour. I stamped the flower image with the Saddlebrown Stazon ink. I then took my blending brush and very lightly rubbed it in the Merry Merlot ink pad and then tried carefully to brush the ends of the petals. For the leaf, I used Old Olive ink and again stamped the ink pad directly onto a scrap piece of white cardstock and then stamped the image with the Saddlebrown Stazon. I cut out both images with their coordinating dies.

For the hummingbird, I stamped in Black Memento on a piece of white cardstock and then coloured in using the dark Poppy Parade Stampin' Blend as well as the Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo for the body. I fussycut the hummingbird with my paper snips and popped up with dimensionals on the front of my card. For a final touch I did add a bit of wink of stella to the flower as well as the hummningbird, but unfortunately my camera didn't pick it up. In real life, they both have a gentle sparkle to them.
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