Books are Magical 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 one layer, watercolor, Books are Magical Card.

This Monday a new school year started in Croatia. I made this card for my niece Tea, 1st grade student. ♥

For a card base I used Canson XL Mixed Media Paper and stamped directly on the card base. I used stamps from three super adorable Jane's Doodles stamp sets: 'Read All About It!', 'Magical' and 'Unicorn'. :o)

  

I colored everything in a watercolor technique using Distress Inks (DI). First I colored a blue background, covered a girl with paper towel pieces and splattered the background with DI Blueprint Sketch and with water. Then I watercolored all images (Moon, stars, girl). I was inspired with colors from a photo below shared on Addicted to Stamps and More blog for the challenge #255 - Photo inspiration. This is my 3rd project made using this color scheme. I love it!!! You can find my previous projects here and here. :o)

After coloring, I left card air dry for couple hours. As a finishing touch, I highlighted images and sentiment and drew dots all over the card with a white gel pen. :o)

Card dimensions: 95 mm x 133 mm (3 3/4" x 5 1/4")

List of supplies:

• Jane's Doodles 'Read All About It!' stamp set (girl, word 'books')
• Jane's Doodles 'Unicorn' stamp set (Moon, stars)
• Jane's Doodles 'Magical' stamp set (part of sentiment)
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Tea Dye
• Tumbled Glass
• Mermaid Lagoon
• Blueprint Sketch
• Faded Jeans
• Wilted Violet
• Old Paper
• Vintage Photo
• Ground Espresso
• Uniball Signo White
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• paper towels
• water

I'm linking 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) Happy Little Stampers, Watercolour Challenge, September 2017, Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog, STAMPtember Stamp It
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

3) Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday, August/September 2017: Favorite Stamps

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

4) The Daily Marker, 8th 30 Day Coloring Challenge

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

colored: DAY 3

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

Milka