Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
In the last few months, I've been resisting the urge to buy new supplies. I know the horror. Not only has it been good for my wallet, but it's also been good for my creativity.
I've started shopping my stash and casing Pinterest. I have a huge inspiration board for card making over there, and I keep adding to it. The inspiration for this cupcake birthday card came from the thousands of ideas I have over there. Once I had the idea, I started building the card.
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Once I had the paper selected I pulled stamps, markers, and dies that would give me a similar layout to the inspiration card. While the inspiration card used a cupcake die I worked with stamps from Whimsy Stamps and selected a greeting from my collection of Simon Says Stamps stamps. I use Gina K Amalgam Ink to stamp any image I plan to color with Copic markers and VersaMark Onyx Black is my go-to for sentiments.
The cupcake was colored with Copic markers, and unfortunately, at the time of making this card I wasn't thinking about writing about my process so I have no clue which colors were used in the coloring of this one. After coloring the cupcake I used Tonic Nuvo Crystal Glaze to fill in the icing and a bit of shimmer pen was applied to the wrapper, the photo does those details no justice.
The style of this card, while layered is still a flat lay card with no dimensional elements. I've listed the supplies below, when still available, using affiliate links, but I encourage you to shop your stash and use the amazing supplies you have.
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