More Birthday cards!

 So these were two of the cards in yesterdays picture, but created differently to the others. Still pretty simple, but not one layer.
 I do love my Stampscapes stamps, and usually do them on a brayered background, as the texture type stamp Kevin generally uses to colour his scenes with, first I have never got the hang of, and second, it takes so long to get the colour build up.

 

While I haven't been able to do much, I've been watching his tutorials on the Stampscapes YouTube channel. On these, he's been using the Colorbox Stylus tool, and I just happen to have a  (pretty much unused) one of these. So I dug it out, and had a go. I have to say, it is really easy to get the colour down with it, and to control where its going, easier than sponging for scenes like these.

You need to use glossy card, which is why I couldn't do them straight onto my card front. Started off layering pale yellow, then added darker yellow, light and dark orange.
I used two stamps, Lakeside cabin, from Nature Sheet #6, and Lakeside Island, from Nature Sheet #4.

 
Stamped in Adirondack Espresso, and I heat set the first stamp before doing the other, as the ink was quite wet on top of the inked surface, and I always use a stamp positioner to match my images up! Kevin does say theres no need, the images match up/overlap ok, but I know I would miss my mark, then be annoyed.

 So I trimmed down both images and matted them onto dark brown card.Then I decided they didn't look right on plain card, so had a root about and found some gold card I'd embossed in a 'bug folder, Forest Branches. I cut that to size for the front of the card and mounted my image on it. I stamped a Happy Birthday sentiment, it comes from a Debbi Moore set, on one of the scraps I had trimmed off, matted it the same and added it under the image.
For the second, I ran some dark orange card through the 'bug with the Tim Holtz Woodgrain folder, doing it twice to get the length. Did the same with this one to cover the card front, and used the same Happy Birthday stamp too.

So, not quite CAS, but still quite quick.Watching Kevins videos, they run for about 15 minutes, so it doesn't take long to do this, and his scenes are way more detailed than this! It probably took me 20 minutes or so to get the colour done.