Wishing You Happy Birthday

 Happy Saturday to all,

It's been a very quiet day for me. I did some cooking, some cleaning, and then reading for most of the afternoon. Very relaxing. After finishing the book I've been reading, I took pictures of a couple of cards so that I could get them posted.

This card I made for this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. I used one of my current favorite techniques, ink blending.

I thought this stamp set from GKD with the three flowers on a vine worked well for Jen's sketch of three elements up the side of a panel. For the top panel, I blended GKD inks in Coral Reef, Sweet Mango and Peach Bellini from bottom to top. After letting the blended inks dry, I put the panel in my Misti and stamped the images using Black amalgam ink, stamping a few times to achieve a nice dark silhouette image. This is layered onto a panel cut with the GKD Basket Weave cover die in white, and that is layered over Coral Reef card stock. For the sentiment, I used pre-printed GKD sentiment strips cut with a GKD sentiment strip die. The three hexagon black enamel dots are from Stampin' Up, and I like the hexagons geometry paired with the Basket Weave panel.  I'd call this card clean and layered.

Thanks for looking in,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Mini Blossoms Stamp set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs heavy weight & layering weight white, and Coral Reef card stocks

Ink: Gina K Designs Coral Reef, Sweet Mango, Peach Bellini and Black Amalgam inks

Other: Gina K Designs Basket Weave cover die and sentiments strip dies, Gina K Designs black sentiment strips, blending brushes, Misti, Gemini Jr, Stampin' Up black enamel hexagons, SU Mini Dimensionals