Be Happy

Hello and Welcome.
Meet today's card.
A simple one using a brayered/stenciled background.

So here's what I did.
  As I have mentioned in previous posts, I like to roll off any excess paint from my brayer onto a piece of card when using my Geli Plate.  For this one, I was using some blue and green paint, so I just rolled out the excess and voila; another bkg. piece.  I loved the look of these 2 colours blended together.
Next, using the Beautiful Reasons stencil from A Colorful Life Designs, I masked out the phrase (see below) and just used the word happy to create some background interest using my DOX inks.
I also added some stenciled dots for more interest.
Next, I used my Misti to stamp the leaf outline with black; it is a two-part stamp.  I positioned the solid part of the leaf into my Misti and inked it with more DOX inks, sprayed with water and stamped.  When it was dry, I fussy cut it out then glued it over my inked background.
I mounted the piece onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Here is the stencil I used:



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Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- IN THE GARDEN

A Place to Start- CREATE A CUSTOM BKG

Allsorts Challenge- GINGHAM, STRIPES, DOTS

Supplies

Stamps- Botanicals (The Stamp Market)
Inks- Versafine Clair; DOX (Cracked Pistachio. Faded Jeans); acrylic paint
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- brayer; Beautiful Reasons (ALCD); Dotty (AALL and Create)
blending brush; Misti (My Sweet Petunia)