WPlus9 | I Hope This Card Puts A Smile On Your Face using Happy Birds stamp set. Handmade card by Yana Smakula

WPlus9 | Happy Birds Stamped Pattern with Googly Eyes

Hello friends! If you’ve been following my blog for some time you might have noticed I love to create my own patterns using stamps (and dies). I’ve been wanting to stamp a pattern using images from Happy Birds stamp set from WPlus9 and I finally have.

WPlus9 | I Hope This Card Puts A Smile On Your Face using Happy Birds stamp set. Handmade card by Yana Smakula

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CARD DETAILS

I mounted 3 of the 4 birds (I didn’t use one with the spread out wings) onto a long clear block and stamped repeatedly onto a white cardstock panel using black ink. You can stamp these one by one, but it saves a lot of time when stamping multiples at a time.

WPlus9 | I Hope This Card Puts A Smile On Your Face using Happy Birds stamp set. Handmade card by Yana Smakula

This stamp set has additional dashed and dotted details that can be stamped onto birds bellies, so I stamped those onto some of my images. At this point my pattern was looking black and white and, truth be told, rather boring.

I didn’t want to do a lot of Copic coloring, so I looked for a simpler and faster way to color bodies of these birds. Most of them have a perfectly round body, so using a circle stamp to add color did the trick. After looking through my stash I came across a ball from the Big Deal stamp set and used the other side (the flat side) to add ink onto most of my birds. I was very lucky – the ball image is perfect in diameter for these birds! I went with Last Leaf, Falling For Blue and Ocean Drive ink colors. To add color to the non-round bird I made a mask and stamped just the belly using Wild Mango.

WPlus9 | I Hope This Card Puts A Smile On Your Face using Happy Birds stamp set. Handmade card by Yana Smakula

I still had a lot of white left on my pattern, so I used Copic markers to color in bird’s tails and feathers on their heads. I didn’t do any shading, just added a flat layer of color. I also used Copics to add shading around my images and create the illusion of dimension. I outlined each bird with C3 and blended it out using C1 and Colorless Blender markers.

WPlus9 | I Hope This Card Puts A Smile On Your Face using Happy Birds stamp set. Handmade card by Yana Smakula

I adhered my panel onto an A2 top folding card base and added a sentiment that reads “I Hope This Puts A Big Smile On Your Face”. At this point I also adhered googly eyes onto some images (this is how I envisioned these birds right from the start) and used Nuvo Drops in white and a white gel pen to color some of the black stamped dots on bird’s bellies white.

WPlus9 | I Hope This Card Puts A Smile On Your Face using Happy Birds stamp set. Handmade card by Yana Smakula

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

WPlus9 Happy Birds Stamp Set
WPlus9 Happy Birds Stamp Set
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SSS | WP9
WPlus9 Big Deal Stamp Set
WPlus9 Big Deal Stamp Set
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SSS | WP9
WPlus9 Falling For Blue Dye Ink
WPlus9 Falling For Blue Dye Ink
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WP9
WPlus9 Last Leaf Dye Ink
WPlus9 Last Leaf Dye Ink
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WP9
WPlus9 Wild Mango Dye Ink Pad
WPlus9 Wild Mango Dye Ink Pad
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WP9
WPlus9 Ocean Drive Dye Ink
WPlus9 Ocean Drive Dye Ink
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WP9
Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink
Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink
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SSS
Hero Arts Self-adhesive Googly Eyes
Hero Arts Self-adhesive Googly Eyes
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SSS | SC | HA | AZ
Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock
Neenah 80LB Solar White Cardstock
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SSS | AZ
Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock
Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock
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SSS | AZ
Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock
Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock
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SSS
Simon Says Stamp Masking Paper
Simon Says Stamp Masking Paper
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SSS
Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200
Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200
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SSS | SC | HA | AZ
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110
Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110
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SSS | SC | HA | AZ
ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch
ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch
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SSS | AZ
Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Crystal Drops
Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Crystal Drops
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SSS | SC | AZ
Uni-ball Pen Signo Gel White Two Pack
Uni-ball Pen Signo Gel White Two Pack
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SSS
Copic Colorless Blender Marker
Copic Colorless Blender Marker
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SSS | AZ
Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray
Copic Sketch Marker C1 Cool Gray
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SSS | AZ
Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey
Copic Sketch Marker C3 Cool Gray Grey
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SSS | AZ
Scrapbook Adhesives Black Foam Tape
Scrapbook Adhesives Black Foam Tape
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SSS | AZ

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8 Comments

    1. This is such a fun card, Yana. It certainly put a big smile on my face! Thanks for sharing.

    1. Yes this card did put a big smile on my face. What fun images and great colors. Love the google eyes.

    1. Hi Yana ~ Yup….this card made me smile. I love (& have) these birds so thanks for sharing a fun way to create with them. You can NEVER go wrong with googly eyes either! ~HUGS~
      #kindnessmatters

    1. This is great! My mom is a birder/birdwatcher and I got this set thinking I could do great things with it for her. Yeah… no. The birds never really got my creative juices flowing. Maybe I’ll give them another try now that I’ve seen your interpretation. Thank yoU!

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