Made 2 Craft: Gorjuss Cat

Use a Sandoro Gorjuss Girl stamp to create this birthday card

The best bit about making cards yourself is that you can adjust them to suit the recipient. So this weeks card is a birthday card for a friends daughter who has beautiful red hair.

Gorjuss Girl greeting card made with a stamp by Sandoro

She's also a cat lover - so this card is a win, win!

I often get people comment - "I can't colour in". Don't forget it is a hand made card - just try your best. It really doesn't matter - it's come from the heart and the recipient will love it. I personally love promarker pens as they are very forgiving. For example I colour the girls dress in cold grey 2 pen. It doesn't show the pen marks, it just blends into one colour. To make the image look less flat, take the same coloured pen and draw lines where shadows would be. In this image, I drew a line under her arms and around the outside of the cat head on her dress. It leaves a subtle shadow but does make the image look less flat.

(Please excuse the photo's this week - they are a little darker than normal. I was having to work without a light as the electrician was updating the fuse board ! - how rude!)

Follow the below link to find out how the card was made

You will need

5 x 7 inch white base card
Dark grey and lighter grey slightly sparkly card
White card
Black ink pad
Gorjuss girl stamp with cat
11 . 5 cm x 8 cm rectangle die
Colouring medium of your choice (I used Promarker pens - cool grey 5, cool grey 3, cardinal red, chesnut, ivory, pale pink and blush)
3 small red and clear gems
White Happy Birthday peel-off
Die cutting machine
Guillotine
Glue

Cover the base card front in the darker grey card or paper

Stamp the image using black ink onto white card. My image had a large heart next to it that I didn't want to use. Therefore I covered part of the heart nearest the girl image, with washi tape whilst I inked up the girl image and then removed the washi tape before stamping.