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

Cityscape

Hello and Welcome.

Playing with my Brushos to create this card.  It is not only fun but you can achieve great results using them as they are so highly pigmented.

So onto my card details.

I placed my heavy white cardstock into my Misti and positioned this New York stamp over my paper.

Next, I sprinkled some Brushos onto my palette, diluted it with a bit of water and picked up the ink with a paintbrush.  I painted it directly onto my stamp, adding different colours in various areas of my stamp.  I pressed onto my paper and repeated that process for areas that didn't get enough of an inking.

I took a wet paintbrush with just water and painted over the image, blurring the look.

I painted in the sky with some diluted blue ink as well.

When it was nice and dry, I placed it back into my Misti and stamped the sentiment from PB.

I mounted it onto a piece of light blue cardstock then onto a heavy white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Challenge Up Your Life- ANYTHING GOES

A Vintage Journey- WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER

Brown Sugar- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- New York (Technique Junkies); Birthday (Penny Black)

Inks- Brushos; Versafine Clair Noir

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); blue cs

Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); paintbrush

Rainy Day in the City

Hello and Welcome.

It's a super rainy day here today so I thought I would post my Rainy Day card.  We sure need the rain after this dry, hot summer we have had.  It also gave me a chance to play with this fun stamp from Technique Junkies, one of my favs.

Using a piece of heavy white cardstock, I placed the stamp inside my Misti, inked with some Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide ink and stamped onto my paper.  I moved my paper slightly inside my Misti, inked my stamp with some Faded Jeans DOX and stamped again.  I repeated that process with some Hickory Smoke and I was left with a blurred image like you would have on a rainy day.

I then took a wet paintbrush and blended the colours together, then using some more ink, I did a watercolour wash on the sky.  I splattered on some diluted ink to give the effect of rain then stamped the sentiment along the bottom.

The rain is making me 'smile' today.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
Craftaholics R Us- ANYTHING GOES
House that Stamps Built- INSPIRATION PALETTE
Moo-Mania- SUMMERTIME

Supplies
Stamps- New York (Technique Junkies)= Smile (Daisy Bucket)
Inks- Tuxedo Black Memento= DOX: Blueprint Sketch, Faded Jeans, Hickory Smoke (TH)
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook Waterloo Ont)
Accessories and Tools- Misti- paintbrush