Brewing up a Birthday Wish

Hi Bloggers.

I wasn't sure whether to share this card as I wasn't completely happy with it when I finished it but, I'm knee deep in prep for the Trade Show which starts tomorrow so here it is!

By the way, from some of your comments yesterday, I think you expect me to be shopping at the Trade Show. I'm not, I'm working on the Creative Expressions Stand all 3 days. There's not usually any time to go shopping, not usually even time for a lunch break! We usually make do with a big breakfast and a good evening meal. Don't worry, there are enough new goodies on the Creative Expressions Stand for me to buy! I've already shopped ahead with Woodware and I had some lovely new stamps delivered yesterday which you can find on my website here. If you were following Leonie's Blog on her countdown to her move to Hochanda, you will have seen her using some of these stamps.

I also got some more of the lovely Sakura Koi Watercolour Pens and Water Brushes that Sarah Hurley demonstrated on Hochanda this week. You can find them here on my website. Those of you who were at me demo day in January will have seen me using the pens. They really are such a beautiful soft brush nib. Sarah was really inspiring with some great techniques with these fabulous pens. Be sure to watch out for some more shows with Sarah.

Back to today's card - for the background, I ran a piece of Milk Card through the Spellbinders Platinum Machine with the Spellbinders Elegance M-Bossabilities Folder. I ran it through a second time to extend the design. I inked around the edges with CS Phill Martin Frosty Mink Colour Cloud using a Smoothie.

I cut the smallest 2 dies in the Spellbinders Grand Stately Circles Die Set out of Milk Card. I left the card in the dies. I inked through the dies with Frosty Mink Colour Cloud. Using a couple of stamps from the Creative Expressions Coffee Time Stamp Set, I stamped around the edges of the dies using Coffee Archival and then removed the die cuts from the dies.

I stamped the sentiment and the circular stamp from the same stamp set onto Milk Card using Coffee Archival. I cut it ous using a die from the Spellbinders Gold Facets Die Set. I rubbed Frosty Mink Gilding Wax over the debossed design.

I assembled the card as shown adding some Cream Pearl Corners and piercing around the edges using my Tim Holtz Ruler, Precision Probe and Piercing Mat.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.
www.juliawattscrafts.co.uk
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