Hello and happy Friday everyone! Today I'm doing a very quick card share of an adorable House Mouse Designs stamp called Birdie Kiss. I have been practicing water coloring using Tombow Dual Tip Markers. Earlier this week, I was rummaging through my stamps and came across this one. I had picked it up at Tuesday Morning in 2018 and had never used it. Well, one look and I fell in love with it again and this time I pulled it out to stamp and paint. Finally! Unfortunately, I think this stamp is discontinued but you might be able to find it on Ebay or Etsy if you really want this stamp.
I paint this by using a pallette, rubbing marker ink on to the palette and then picking it up with a damp #3 round brush. I apply the color directly from there but there are times I wet the area I'm coloring first if I want it to spread out and give more variation of color. Every time I paint something, I learn something and this was no exception. I'm far from perfect but practicing is making me more comfortable and giving me more confidence to try the next one.
This is a 5 x 7 card. Usually I make 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 cards (A2 size) but this is such a nice large stamp, I thought it deserved a bit more real estate. I used a 5 x 7 sized Curious Metallic Violette cardstock for the background. I cut the purple mat out of the center of the 5 x 7 piece, then placed the gold metallic patterned paper from my scraps on top to cover the hole created by cutting the mat. Then I put the mat and the cut image on top of that. I glued the finished panel on a cream 5 x 7 #110 Classic Crest Natural cardstock card base. This way, I only used one sheet of 5 x 7 specialty paper and not that much was wasted.
I'm entering this card into the House-Mouse & Friends Anything Goes Monday Challenge.
I'll be back again tomorrow with my regular Art Impressions project. Take care everyone!
Super cute card Janet :-) the image is so sweet and the colours and fancy frame are gorgeous!
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p.s, the link to your card from the inlinkz was faulty so I am fixing it. Luckily you had your blog name on youtr card so I could find you ;-)
Thank you for fixing it! I didn't know that. I appreciate you stopping by to say high.
DeleteSuper adorable mousey card love the cute image thanks for sharing with us at HMFMC
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This is so sweet! Beautifully colored. I love the shimmery background too. Thanks for sharing at HMFMC. xx
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