Papertrey Ink Happy birthday card

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had an excellent weekend and are easing into the new week. I loved looking at all the wonderful cards submitted in the PTI Blog Hop and would like to thank everyone for their kind comments on my contribution. Its so good to receive warm feedback and I feel really encouraged. Anyway its time  for a new Make it Monday challenge over at Papertrey Ink and the challenge this time is to use an ink blending technique to create a background for stamping. To honour my pledge to use more of my stash, I decided to try a a little humorous birthday card with a stamp I have had for a while but not inked up yet. I have a few humorous stamps which I bought because they made me smile but I have to admit I have never found the right way of using them, so I thought I would jump in with this one and promise myself to try out the others soon.

Betsy Veldman showed a way of blending inks using Ranger products, but I used the ink dusters I have to do the same thing and created a kind of garden background. I used Copics to colour in the images and although it is hard to see in the photograph, I added some Glossy Accents to put some water in the top of the watering can, and finished off with a few little drops on some of the flowers. I lightly inked the white card to soften it and coloured some white ribbon with Copic Marker.

Products.

Stamps - Docrafts Born to Shop Garden Beauty, PTI Signature Greetings, PTI Vintage Picnic Sentiments.

Card - White and Raspberry Fizz

Other - Blue, Orange and Green ink and white ribbon coloured with a Copic marker.

Thanks for looking.

Hugs

Carol x