Hey girly...

Popping in for a quick post.  Hope everyone is having a wonderful Tuesday.  :)

I wanted to share this birthday card I made for my friend Kathy, she is my crafty buddy at work and we have such good fun giving each other ideas and enabling each other.  She always says I get her in to trouble because I always have too many cute things to share.  Well I say sharing is caring and we just laugh about it.  I wanted to give her a different kind of card with a stamp she's never seen before.  I personally have never inked one up, but I have to say, I loved coloring this one.  I was really tempted to keep her for myself!  But I didn't want to stay up all night to color something else.

This is my very first Gorjuss Girl that I inked up and colored.  I love how she turned out.  I used my favorite colors, blues and greens with a touch of brown.  I know, that I've never really used this color combo, but these are three of my favorite colors.  I also did a simple background of clouds and a little bit of green around her feet to represent grass.  I believe this is a gatefold card, and one that I sorta struggled with as you can see by the bow.  I think I tied it 20x before I got this result.  It's still not one that I love but it's the last one that looked the best.  The dp worked perfectly with my color scheme and I didn't need too many more embellies except for the sweet sentiment, (another AmyR). 

Let's take a peek of the inside of the card.  Sorry the photo is blurry!  I also wiped out my message to her.  I forgot to take a picture before writing in it.  The sentiment is of course another AmyR sentiment, and there is that Gorjuss girl again.  :)

I think this counts in the weekly challenge at Mad for Markers which is favorite Copic color combos.  It will be fun to play in a challenge. 

Alrighty, that's all I have for today.  I'm hoping to share some other projects I've been working on, and especially wanted to share my wonderful birthday cards and goodies I received from some really lovely friends and family.  We shall see how the next few days and nights go.   Have a lovely Tuesday night my friends!
Hugs,
Leanne

Card recipe: Gate Fold
Stamps: Sentiments by AmyR (C.C. Designs); Gorjuss Waiting (Gorjuss Girl) - Purchased via All That Scraps
Dark brown & white cs (Neenah)
Patterned paper: K&Company
Spellbinders: Mega Oval & Mega Scallop oval
Ribbons: Random scraps (unknown)
Black tuxedo & rich cocoa (Memento inks), tumbled glass & peeled paint (Distress Inks)
Copics:
Hair: E70, 71, 74, 77, 79
Outfit: YG01, 03, 06, B000, 00, 01, E70, 71
Skin: E01, 11, 50, 51,