Hi, crafty friends! I’m sharing a fun square card today, featuring this cute Party Pig from Purple Onion Designs, illustrated by Pei. I love her style.

I stamped the pig, masked him, then stamped the Congrats from the Outliners sentiment set for him to stand on.

Once I had the pig and the letters colored in with my Copics, I used the Bunch of balloons stencil from Concord & 9th to add a bunch of balloons to my background. I used Harbor, Lemongrass and Oceanside inks, all C9 colors and a light touch with my blender brushes.

I created a 4 1/2 x 4 1/2″ top fold card base from Soft Stone cardstock from Papertrey Ink. This is a very soft grey and it’s great as a subtle neutral color. I created strips of varying widths from Oceanside, Lemongrass and Harbor cardstock from C9 and adhered them horizontally near the bottom of the card base, before mounting the panel with the pig in the center of the card using foam tape.

I stamped a sentiment from the Summer Days sentiment set using Blueberry ink from Concord & 9th, and finished off with enamel dots, also from C9 (the enamel dot colors I used are Harbor, Blueberry, Oceanside and Lemongrass). I also added a dot of black glaze pen to both eyes for a tiny bit of dimension and some shine.

 I didn’t use a ton of colors for this one.