Welcome to It's Earth Day It's My (Gaby's) Birthday Blog Hop

Happy Birthday Gaby and Happy Earth day too!

You should have arrived here from Liz's blog.

Wasn't her project just FABULOUS!!!

Now on to my project

 In celebration of Gaby's birthday and Earth day I decided to make a fabulous GREEN card.  I love the look of monochromatic and iCopic Lover (one of my new favorite blogs) is having a monochromatic challenge and it is in fact a day to celebrate being green (environmentally speaking) so I chose green!  I love this adorable Mo Manning stamp called Wonderful Day - it seems so fitting for a day to celebrate Gaby and the Earth.  I colored her in Copics.

Here are the following colors I chose:

The Happy Birthday stamp is also from Mo Manning and comes with the Wonderful Day set.  I simply layered a number of different papers.  The solid green is from Stampin' Up and the checkered paper is from the Basic Grey stack Baby Girl.  

 I also used my Martha Stewart punch to create a border close to the bottom of the card.

Now, hopefully you can see the baker's twine that I added to this card as well.  I bought this twine from Kimberly at My Craft Spot.  I really love this twine and it seems to be so popular right now. 

and because I love this twine and Kimberly's fast and great service if you leave a comment telling me your favorite color you will be entered to win a fabulous bunch of 3 crinkled ribbons of your choice and a set of Bakers Twine  from Kimberly at My Craft Spot.

I will chose my winner on Monday following the blog hop!

Now you are off to Linda's blog 

In case you have just popped in and don't know anything about this hop - please start from the beginning at Gaby's blog.  Gaby has a number of sponsors so there will be lots of fun prizes but you have to complete the whole hop in order to win!  Here is the entire list of bloggers participating!

http://www.gabycreates.com

http://www.cookingwithcricut.blogspot.com

http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com

http://www.creativecutter.org

http://www.cricutchick.blogspot.com

http://www.cricutcouple.blogspot.com

http://www.cuteandsome.blogspot.com

http://www.dailygracecreations.blogspot.com

http://www.funkycards.blogspot.com

http://www.happynscrappin.blogspot.com

http://www.itstoristime.blogspot.com

http://www.justyolie.com

http://www.lizspaperloft.com

http://www.melissamade2.blogspot.com

http://www.paperboutique.blogspot.com

http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com

http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com

http://www.scrappinwithmybug.com

http://www.septemberninth.blogspot.com

http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com

http://www.thunderbirdlindybydesign.blogspot.com

http://www.youhadmeatcraft.blogspot.com

Spring Garden - Thinking of You

 Hi ya everyone,
  I wanted to enter the iCopic challenge this week and was excited to try the challenge!  The challenge is to make a beautiful background.  I really wanted to use this new cling stamp I got at my local stamping store.  I used Memento black ink and stamped this image.  I then used my Copics and colored it - this took awhile but it was worth it.  I colored in my lightest color first then added striations and shading with my darker colors.  Finishing again with the light color to blend.  I love this stamp and can see me using more often for a number of cards.  Here are the Copics I used for the background.

I also colored this sweet Mo Manning stamp called Baby Flora Fairy with the above Copics and cut her out.  I added some Stardust Stickles to her wings as well.  I took some Tea Dye from Tim Holtz and added a bit of water and tried to shade the edges of her a bit too - it didn't work all that great and I didn't want to go darker - so I left it this way.

I stamped a sentiment "Thinking of You" on paper and drew a frame around and used Copics to color the outer edge of the frame.  I also colored a thin white ribbon with the darkest red Copic I used in the image to match.

 Last, I went around the background with my Stardust Stickles and added it to the dots and center of the background flowers.  I also want to enter this in the Digital Pencil 2 Challenge found HERE.  You have to check out the inspiration at DP2 - their design team is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G and join the challenge "How Does Your Garden Grow?"