Challenge Entry for #GDP048

My preorder arrived for the new holiday catalogue (beginning 1 September) and in the back of my mind was the "Case the Designer" challenge over on Global Design Project. Check out Tania Kolar's original idea. The weather we are dealing with at the moment suited the new Merry Mice set, you'll have to wait to see the other images, but equally as cute! This time my mouse is singing Happy Birthday and I was trying to avoid colours that made him look like christmas which is how I ended up with the combination of Daffodil Delight and Perfect Plum, along with a touch of Tempting Turquoise. I was still in watercolour mode and used my aqua brush with marker pens.  Surprising how far a little bit of colour will go. I have used very vanilla and stamped the image in Basic Black archival ink. As you know, you can't use too much water or repeat brushing or your card will pill. You just have to be a little patient and let it dry if you need to add more depth. The background might suit those of you who feel they 'can't sponge properly', as I used a Touches of Texture stamp with Pool Party - check out the close up below along with how I added "2 U" (to complete the Happy Birthday song).  Balloons and greeting from Balloon Celebration and Balloon Builders. To finish off I aded some new Fancy Frost sequins. 

A Sneak Peek for You

How exciting, my demonstrator preorder has arrived! I chose two new in-colours to work with, Peekaboo Peach and Emerald Envy. I used my blender pen to colour one of the new Floral Affection.TIEFs and ran it through the Big Shot with Very Vanilla cardstock. This is a deep folder and the card did crack a little, but I've shown you how to fix this with a sheet of tissue or paper, however as I wanted the colour, I just worked with it. For the Emerald Envy card, I have used the Playful Palette DSP stack in the background, trimmed close to the coloured image and mounted on Emerald Envy and attached some (gorgeous!) Peekaboo Peach ruched ribbon. The greeting is from Balloon Celebration - "let us celebrate"... seemed appropriate. The Peekaboo Peach card has the greeting from Rose Wonder stamped in Emerald Envy. The image has been fussy cut and popped onto a scrap piece of Emerald Envy, then raised on dimensionals.  Same image initially - two quite different outlooks.  

Below shows the simple embossed Vanilla liner...  and those sheets you see in each of the backgrounds are from the Pop of Pink Specialty DSP pack. Nice.

Bermuda Bay Balloons

Another birthday card ready to go.  We made this at a recent workshop and the colour choice was very popular.  We used the thick Whisper White cardstock for the base, and Bermuda Bay as the contrasting colour.  The Confetti Stars Border punch provided some detail on the left hand side, then we stamped an image from Happy Home in the same Bermuda Bay ink, so it was more of a watermark than a feature.  The Balloon Celebration details were stamped on Whisper White and punched out with the Balloon Bouquet punch.  Some BB baker's twine dangled from each and the 'Happy' greeting from the Hello You thinlits was stapled to the front.  Birthday was stamped from Tin of Cards stamp set and added to the bottom. A fun easy card which would again look great in any colour choice.