It's Your Bird-day!

Hello, everybody! Although I am still on my blog break, I wanted to celebrate my friend Becca's Birthday over at The Damsel of Distressed.  Happy Birthday, Becca - I hope you had a good one! Becca is having a birthday link-up and has provided a mood board (see below).  I chose the cute bird and pun as my inspiration. The image is From the Heart Stamps' stamp of the month for July. I was planning to take a break from the progressive challenges this month, but I ended up receiving the image anyway.  I'm thinking my email request may have gone astray.  In this case, it worked out great because this cute Inner Tube Birdbrain is a perfect way to celebrate with Becca!

My crafty mojo is almost non-existent these days, so this card took much longer to make than it should have.  I hope I get my mojo back soon!  I coloured the image with Prismacolor pencils and created a scene around him.  The sky was made by sponging Tumbled Glass Distress Ink using a homemade cloud template. For the waves, I sponged Salty Ocean Distress Ink on a number of die-cut wave borders (Taylored Expressions).

For the sun, I inked the Lawn Fawn die-cut with Mustard Seed Distress Ink.  The cute little jellyfish and starfish were already coloured, cut, and covered in Glossy Accents - they were part of a prize I won from Little Scrap Pieces (thank you, Karen, I love them!).  I stamped a little fish (Neat and Tangled Meowwww), coloured it with Prisma pencils, fussy cut, and added Glossy Accents.  The seagulls are from Newton's Nook Flirty Flamingos.  As for the sentiments, I used two puns: "It's Your Bird-day" is from From the Heart Stamps Birthday Candle Birdbrain, and "Best Fishes" was a freebie from Crafty Paws.  

Here's Becca's inspirational mood board. 

I would also like to join the following challenges:  Aud Sentiments AG Plus Sentiment 2/5; Bunny Zoe's Summer Breeze UE; Craft Liners AG; Craft Your Passion AG 2/3; Crafting by Designs Summer Holidays 1/3; Crafting from the Heart AG 1/3; Crafts Galore Encore Use a Stamp or Digi 3/3; Crafty Gals Corner To Die For 2/2; Creative Fingers AG 2/3; Creative Ladybirds AG 2/3; Crop Stop Linky Party #6 AG 1/3 (Tim Holtz Distress Inks available at Crop Stop); Die Cut Diva's Summer or Patriotism UE; Digi Designs Hand-coloured Image 1/3; Digital Delights AG 1E; DL.ART July Linky UE 1/day; DL.ART Thankful Thursday Summer Time or Thank You 1/3; DRS Designs A Stitch in Time (stitched sun die) UE; Fresh Brewed Blog Let's Go Swimming 1/5; Fussy and Fancy Things with Wings UE; Incy Wincy Things with Wings 1/5; Inspiration Destination AG UE; Kitty Bee Aloha Friday Summer Fun 1/2; Ladybug Crafts Special Birthday 1/3; Lauralcraft Dragonfly Dreams Mid-Summer Delights UE; Lil Patch of Crafty Friends AG 2/3; Little Claire's Digi Holiday Theme (susmmer) 3/3; Little Scrap Pieces Show it Off Saturday 1E: Love to Scrap AG 1/3; Mod Squad The Wing's the Thing UE; My Whimsical Little World AG; Natalie and Amy's Summertime 1/3; Not Just Cards July UE; Papertake Weekly Build it Up 1/5; Pixie's Snippet Playground All die cuts from white snippets and inked 1/3; Scrap and Craft Celebrations 1/3; Scribbles Designs Birthday 1/3 (TOP 3); Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday Die Cuts 1/3; Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE; Sparkles Monthly Sun, Sea, and Sand 1/3; Stamping Sensations Feature a Creature 2/3; The Corrosive To Die For 2/3 (DT PICK); The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Water Theme 1/2; V's Sweet Ideas Celebrate (birthday) 2/2; Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment; Your Scrapbook Place AG 3/3

I am also linking up to Mynn's 5th Blogiversary Giveaway at On a Stampage - Congratulations, Mynn!

Thank you for looking at my card!  I'll be back on July 29 with a special scheduled post and I'll be announcing my candy winners on July 30. Wishing you a joyful day!