I started this card by painting a mixture of Jack Frost, Patina, Key Lime, and Fully Purple Glimmer Mists, as well as Orchard Mister Huey's, with water, onto a piece of watercolor paper. Once it was dry and just because I didn't have an orange Glimmer Mist, so the Mister Huey's didn't have the same shine as the rest of the card, I spritzed over everything with Pearl Glimmer Mist.
I then stamped the bottom portion of the prepped piece, in Jet Black ink, with the cattails; black embossed the bugs in their respective locations; and mounted it on a piece of White cardstock.The "bugs and kisses and BIRTHDAY WISHES" sentiment was stamped, in Jet Black ink, on a strip of vellum and secured, horizontally, across the top portion of the prepped piece, with black-threaded, straight, machine stitches which run all the way around the edges of the watercolor piece. The balloon was then stamped, in second-generation, Pumpkin Pie ink, on a White, cardstock die cut; adhered, just above a hand-drawn string being carried by the snail, with foam tape and given a bit of shine with Crystal Effects. A Black, cardstock, card face, to which the prepped piece was adhered with foam tape, completes the look.
Inspiration for this card came from Colour Me...! Creative Challenge No. 73...
and Cupcake Inspirations' Challenge 311: Bugs and Butterflies.
Before I run, I've got two cuties that also wanted to say hello.
Thanks so much for humbling me with a visit! Now, get out there and enjoy your Saturdays, and I'll see you next month! I'm off to enjoy a stack of pancakes. Mmmm!
{Supplies & Tools}
Stamps: Growth (Market Street Stamps); Whole Lotta' Happy (Wplus9); Bugs & Kisses (SU!) Paper: White & Black (Wplus9); watercolor (SU!); vellum (Paper Studio) Ink: Jet Black (Ranger); Jet Black (StazOn); watermark (VersaMark); Pumpkin Pie (SU!) Other: black thread (Coats & Clark); sewing machine (Janome); Whole Lotta' Happy die (Wplus9); Big Shot (Sizzix); foam tape (Scrapbook Adhesives); black embossing powder & Crystal Effects (SU!); Jack Frost, Patina, Key Lime, Fully Purple, & Pearl Glimmer Mists (Tattered Angels); Orchard Mister Huey's (Studio Calico)