Geometrical Birthday Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hi everyone! :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this Geometrical Birthday Card.

To make this card, I used three beautiful Jane's Doodles stamp sets, 'Plants', 'Cactus' and 'Geometric Patterns' (stamp set is discontinued from Jane's store).

First I made a background panel/patterned panel. I used a triangle stripe pattern from the 'Geometric Patterns' stamp set, inked the stripe with Distress Ink Iced Spruce and stamped it on a watercolor paper panel couple times to create a pattern. I also used a tiny triangle stamp from the 'Cactus' stamp set to create the pattern. I stamped tiny triangles overlapping larger triangles. I followed the same pattern and got beautiful geometrical background/paper/panel. I trimmed the panel, glued it on a grey cardstock paper panel and glued everything on a top folded white card base.

Next up was an image. I stamped a plant from the 'Plants' stamp set on a thick watercolor paper, colored the plant in watercolor technique using Distress Ink Iced Spruce and Green aquarel colored pencils. After drying, I added extra shades on leaves with Green colored pencils and drew white highlights. I fussy cut the plant, leaving thin white border around her.

I heat embossed in white a sentiment from the 'Plants' set on the grey cardstock paper stripe, glued foam squares on the back of it and placed it on the card.

I glued foam squares on the back of the plant and placed her on the card. I like dimension difference, so I used 1 mm thicker foam squares for the plant than for the sentiment.

As a finishing touch, I embellished the card with light and dark grey enamel dots.

Card dimensions: 92 mm x 122 mm (3 5/8" x 4 13/16")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Plants' stamp set (plant and sentiment)
• Jane's Doodles 'Cactus' stamp set (tiny triangle)
• Jane's Doodles 'Geometric Patterns' stamp set (triangle background stamp); stamp set is discontinued

• white cardstock paper (card base)
• dark grey cardstock paper (panel, sentiment)
• thin white watercolor paper 
• Koh-i-noor pop Aquarel Watercolor Paper, 250 gms (image)
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Ink, Iced Spruce
• Koh-i-noor Hardtmuth Mondeluz aquarel colored pencils 3710
• Light Green 25
• Dark Green 26
• TOZ Artist Colored Pencils
• Light Green
• Dark Green
• Stabilo Fine Liner (fine 0.4), Black 88/46
• Uniball Signo White
• Create a Smile 'Neat & Neutrall' enamel dots
• UHU universal glue
• foam squares 3 mm thick
• foam squares 2 mm thick
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• ruler
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Marabu rounded fine paint brush no. #0
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• crafting needle
• scissors
• paper towels
• water
• powder bag
• dry cloth

I hope you'll like my card for today and get inspired. For more inspiration, stop by the Jane's Doodles Blog and my DT mates' blogs.

I'm entering my card to following challenges:

Note: bold text and challenge badge (if any) are direct links to the current challenge and blog badge (if any) is a direct link to blog or challenge home page.

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

2) Craft Stamper Magazine, Take It Make It Challenge: April, Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Happy Little Stampers, Watercolour Challenge, April 2017, Anything Goes 

This is my 5th entry to this challenge.
I watercolored the image.

4) Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge, Challenge #56 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

5) Stamping Sensations, April Challenge, Anything Goes
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

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

Milka

P.S. I'm spending my Spring Holidays in Šibenik with my parents and nieces. I'm offline. My today's post is scheduled. :o)