Sweet Baby Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotligh)

Hi everyone :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Sweet Baby Card, a welcome card for my friend's baby girl, born yesterday. :o)

For this card I used three Jane's Doodles stamp sets: 'Special Delivery', 'Read All About It' and 'Coffee Time'.

First I made a background on a white watercolor paper panel. I  heat embossed stars in white and then stamped couple stars with VersaMark to get watermark images. Then I colored the panel, blending Distress Inks (Wilted Violet and Dusty Concord), creating an Ombré Effect. When I was satisfied with the color, I splattered the panel with water. To brighten up the panel, I lifted up distress ink from stars. I saw this technique at Jennifer McGuire Ink. I love the magic Distress Inks make!! :o)

Image is paper pieced. I stamped three images, one directly on the panel and two more on the watercolor paper. First I colored baby's face with colored pencils and after all others parts in watercolor technique using Distress Ink Wilted Violet. I fussy cut parts I needed, colored edges with black marker and glued all parts together. I added white highlights with a white pen on the image and covered stroller wheels with resin gel to create glossy accents.

After the gloss resin was dry, I heat embossed a sentiment on the card base, cut off excess parts of the panel and glued it on a white cardstock paper card base. I embellished card with couple of white enamel dots, drew tiny white dots all over the panel and my card was finished. :o)

Card dimensions: 93 mm x 127 mm (3 11/16" x 5")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Special Delivery' stamp set (baby in a stroller, sentiment 'sweet baby')
• Jane's Doodles 'Read All About It' stamp set (stars)
• Jane's Doodles 'Coffee Time' stamp set (sentiment 'Hello')
• white cardstock paper (card base)
• white watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim Holtz's Distress Inks
• Wilted Violet
• Dusty Concord
• TOZ colored pencils: skin color and pink
• Stabilo Pen (Marker) 68/46 Black
• Unibal Signo White
• Create a Smile 'Snow Dance' Enamel Stickers
• UHU universal Glue
• double sided strong adhesive tape
• Gloss Resin Super Clear
• MS scoring board
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• Sigma Rotary Paper Trimmer
• scissors
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• polymer stamp handle (38 mm x 38 mm)
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• Tim Holtz's Blending Tool
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• crafting needle
• powder bag
• paper towels
• water

I am entering my card to following challenges:

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1) Crafting By Designs, April Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Crafty Calendar Challenge, April Anything Goes Challenge

3) Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge, Challenge #32 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)

Crafty Milka