Embedded Happy Birthday

Hello and Welcome

I'm happy to be back with a fun card using this great stamp from Technique Junkies.

It's an older one but I love that it's so easy to make a card using it.  Take a background, stamp the city image and then add a sentiment.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I used a piece of Strathmore Bristol watercolour paper for my front panel, then got out my Distress inks (Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Seedless Preserves and Wilted Violet).  I rubbed the ink pads directly onto my Tim Holtz Glass mat and diluted them with water.
• Using a large paintbrush, I added water all over the panel.  Then I picked up some Peacock Feathers ink and started added the inks onto the wet panel.  Since these inks are water soluble, they can be easily diluted for watercolouring.
• I continued with each of the colours mentioned above until the panel was washed with inks.  I set that aside to dry completely.
• When totally dry, I placed the inked panel into my Misti and stamped the Watercolor NY image with some Versafine Clair Noir and clear heat embossed it.
• I die cut the Happy Birthday from the panel using a die from Penny Black and set that aside.  
• I die cut the Birthday again 3 more times and glued them all together.  
• I glued the inked panel onto a card base and fitted the 'Happy Birthday' back into the cut away on the image for an embedded sentiment.  It's kind of hidden but doesn't take away from the overall look of the image.
• I added a few white splatters with my Posca pen until it died...ugh.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Craft Rocket- USE DIE/SPRING

Cards for Galz- SPRING RAIN

As You Like It- FAV WAY TO CUT YOUR IMAGE AND WHY

(by embedding you can still see the full image)

Supplies 

Stamp- Watercolor NY (Technique Junkies)

Inks- Distress (Tim Holtz); Versafine Clair

Paper- Strathmore Bristol; heavy white (Scribes Nook, Waterloo Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia), Wow clear eb powder; heat tool; paintbrush,

Happy Birthday die (PB); Cuttlebug, Posca pen