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Monday 7 September 2015

Happy Birthday


I am so happy with how this turned out. I had so many ideas. I decided to enter in a Colour Throwdown and of course its now last minute but I love the colour choices for this one.





I stamped the flowers from a new Altenew stamps. I looked at so many ideas but decided to go this way. I stamped them down the length of the cardstock and of course I never thought of size so the card is larger than I would normally do. I stamped in lemonade  distress ink  which was pretty pale but worked and also did a bit of masking. I then used a mix of four yellow copics to produce the curves and highlights.

I then outlined the inner section of the flowers with the palest grey copic I have just to add a bit of shadow.

I then fussy cut along the length of the card any white that showed.





I then got a larger piece of card stock so I could blend blue down the side, distress ink again. I sprayed with shimmer mist then lightly blended again to soften. I only wanted a bit of shimmer not a night sky with stars which is what it looked like.

If you look closely you can see the bits of shimmer.
Stamped sentiment and added a couple of navy gems to finish it off. I am really happy with this but sure wouldn't do too often cause I felt like my hands were going to seize up.

I would like to enter this in a couple of challenges.



finally

Was just looking at the Time Out Challenge and thought I would add to that one as well. Hopefully 4 challenges is not too many anywhere.
I passed on the optional twist for this one as I haven't gone Monochrome.

Thanks for coming to visit and  I hope you come again.



6 comments:

Ruth said...

Perfect colours for the challenge! Absolutely love the way the flowers fall down the side. Beautiful. Xx

Lori said...

So pretty! That floral border is gorgeous--and your fussy cutting is just perfect, too. Thanks for joining us at The Color Throwdown!

lostinpaper said...

Love how the yellow really pops on the blue, it's a beautiful card Aileen!

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous card. Love the yellow and blue combo.

Gerrina said...

Great CAS-card! Love the flowers; the look allmost real! Thank you for taking the TIME OUT and share with us!

Joyce said...

Delicious and rich coloring on this card. It's so vibrant and beautiful. Thanks so much for playing along at Time out.