A little toucan of my affection

I have been in love with birds for a very long time and so when I saw the Toucan do this set from Time for Teas designs I just knew I had to have it. It has taken me a while to get the chance to colour it up and get it on a card but I can't help feeling this will not be the last card they appear on :D

For this card I coloured my toucan with my new copic markers. I am completely converted to Copics I think. They are going to take me some getting used to BUT the difference in my colouring is clear to me as soon as I started to colour in some hair. The flick motion you can get with the brush nib is amazing! Any way onto the card.....

The sentiment, the branch, the hearts in the background and the pretty Toucan are from the Toucan do this stamp set so this whole card is made with just the one set. 

I used the following Copics to colour the images:

Toucan body: C7, C5, C4, C1 (and C3,C1 to add shadow to the white areas)

Toucan beak and tail feathers: Y17, Y15, Y11 and B05, B02, B00

Branch: E79, E29, E35

Leaves: G29, G17, G02

 

I added some glossy accents to its beak so it looks all shiny. For the background I used Tumbled glass and broken china oxide inks and then added more dimension with the Wow! gold embossing powder to make the hearts pop and nuvo key lime and sunlit meadow drops. The stitch rectangle is from Heffy Doodles stitched rectangle die set.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes 

Creative fingers challenge blog - Anything goes

As you like it - Animals or people (animals for me. I have always loved how calming it is to be around animals)

Cute card Thursday - Wings

Southern Girls Challenge - Anything goes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything goes

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything goes

Craft -Dee BowZ - Anything goes

Love to craft - Anything goes

Alphabet challenge - A is for anything goes