I’m up to June in my Stampin’ Up! Perpetual birthday calendar and June’s image is some big happy flowers. I therefore chose happy summery colours, taking inspiration from the color coach – crushed curry, melon mambo and pumpkin pie. I started by stamping in the three colours in the lower right hand corner of the month’s sheet as usual, stamping some of the images twice without re-inking to give a more layered effect.

Then I stamped June in melon mambo and did the same layering with the June flower image in the three colours. I cut out a star in crushed curry using the second smallest star framelit and glued that above the month. I roughly cut around the sticky J and then tapped it onto the melon mambo ink pad. After letting the ink dry, I peeled off the letter and adhered it to the centre of the star.