Birthday Surprise! (SOATE)...

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This is one of my favorite sketches I've seen in a while, and it is from Taylored Expressions for SOA. It's so clean and simple, and so I decided to go clean and simple with the design. The stamps are from Verve. I love their sets because no matter which you use, you know where they come from! The cute little birthday bird's body was stamped on Cloud 9 Design Designer Paper, cut out, and affixed to a second stamped image on Stampin' Up Groovy Guava. Some very fine-tipped scissors and a lot of patience later...
BEAN NOTES: Verve Birthday Surprise Stamps; Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip Classic Dye Ink; StazOn Timber Brown Ink; SU Stampin' Write Marker (Chocolate Chip); Cloud 9 Design Offbeat Designer Paper; SU Chocolate Chip, Groovy Guava, Whisper White, and Really Rust Cardstock; Brown Grosgrain Ribbon (generic); Paper Shapers 1-3/4" and 1-1/2" Circle Punches; Foam Dimensional Squares (generic)
HAPPY BEANS: Large Copper Eyelets (generic); Crop-A-Dile