Birthday Boots

It has been a while since I made a card just for fun so today I thought I would indulge myself :)  I do love making a card to fit in with a few challenge, I find it really gives me focus and creates a challenge within itself to bring all the elements together.

This card has been made to fit the following challenges

• Passion For Promarkers - Butterfly Kisses - add/use butterflies
• I Love Promarkers - Lets Get Spotty
• Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Colour Inspiration
• Freshly Brewed Designs - Sketch

To make my card I tried a new technique which I have seen others using - inking an embossing folder so you get a textured coloured paper.  What fun, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this and love the uneven effect I give, definitely a technique to use again, I just wish the embossing folder would clean itself afterwards hahahaha.  For this experiment I used an Encore Metallic Pink stamp pad and an A4 embossing folder M-Bossabilities Graduated Dots.  This folder was chosen to fit in with the I Love Promarkers challenge

 Yipee - it worked, still need a bit of practice but not bad for a first attempt.

 There was still ink left on the folder so I used my second colour of plain paper which fits in with the colour challenge and then used Spellbinders Grand Scallop Ovals to cut the shape I needed.

 Next I printed the digi - Gardening Boots Hers from Just Inklined.  I had placed the didi on a background I had prepared and added the Happy Birthday text.

 Promarker time - the digi was coloured using the colours below.

 To fit in with the Passion for Promarkers challenge I created digitally some paper which had small butterflies on using the colours from the Chocolate, Coffee and Cards challenge in a pattern  and also used spellbinder - les papillions two.  The base layer was cut out of bits left over from the backing paper I made and the cut out section from scraps of the oval layer.  Shame to waste bits and pieces especially when the colour was just perfect.  I finished off the butterfly and the corners of the digi topper with Lilac Liquid Pearls

With all by sections ready time to assemble following the sketch Freshly Brewed Designs. 

While assembling I felt something else was needed - to many harsh lines.  To solve this I added some Mulberry paper, airbrushed with Promarker Blue Green, then wet the edges and tore to make a fluffy edge. And here we have the finished card.  Hope you like it.

Ingredients

• Digi - Gardening Boots Hers from Just Inklined
• M-Bossabilities Graduated Dots embossing folder
• Encore Metallic Pink stamp pad
• Promarkers
• Dies - Spellbinders Grand Scallop Ovals and Les Papillions Two
• Lilac Liquid Pearls
• Plain papers and mulberry paper from my stash

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-

• I love Promarkers - Must use Promarkers - #210 Spots
• Passion For Promarkers Challenge W- must use promarkers - #238 Butterfly Kisses
• Fresh Brewed Designs - M, 5E - Sketch or Photo Insp*  
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 2W, 3E -  No. 60 - (W1 of 2) - colour Inspiration
• Challenges and candies - 2W , 3E - No.29 - (W2 of 2) - Flowers
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.109 - (W2 of 2) - Birthdays
• MilkCoffee Challenge-2W, 3E, SIO (W1 of 2) At Least 2 Flowers
• Crafter's Cafe - F, 3E - #54 Flowers.
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #258 Happy Birthday (2nd week)
• Digistamps 4 Joy - 2W, SIO  - #87 Birthday sentiment (2nd week)
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - SIO - #301 Birthday cards