Inky balloons

 Hello lovely crafters

Welcome to July. Here is a card I made for the new challenge at Shopping our Stash. 

Rootle through your stash and see what you have to join in with our latest challenge. 

SOS 474 - Blending in

Use ink blending. 

When I first started stamping I used to obsessively watch Barbara Gray on Create and Craft tv. I also bought her glossy card stock and wondered why it was so hard to like she did, she made it look so easy, of course. My stamping improved immeasurably when I started using matt! 

Anyway  I still have some of the glossy and it takes ink beautifully. So I started with a piece of glossy  cardstock and blended blue, green and pink distress ink over it using brushes. Stamped the balloons from an old Stamplorations set and cut them out. 

Then I cut a circle from the centre front of a card base and using a stencil blended the same inks through the small circles directly onto the card front. Or actually, I think I inked and then cut...

I used the same brushes so some of the 'bubbles' are multi coloured. 

I placed the balloons and then glued them down, adding the strings by hand as it was easier than using the string stamp. A few swirls and stars are stamped in the same inks. 

Happy Birthday is cut from a scrap of ink blended card and glued to the back of the card so it shows through the cut out circle.

Finally I used a few star sequins. I can't tell you how old these are. it's a lot of years!

I hope you like it and are inspired to join in our Ink Blending challenge which lasts for two weeks. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x