Happy Birthday Card (Jane's Doodles DT Spotlight)

Hello everyone! :o)

Today is my turn to be on the spotlight over at Jane's Doodles and I made this CAS (clean and simple), Happy Birthday Card. :o)

To make this card I used stamps from two adorable Jane's Doodles stamp sets: images from 'Smile' stamp set and a sentiment from 'Belated Birthday' stamp set.

 

I stamped flowers and leaves on a watercolor paper and colored them in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. After drying, I fussy cut flowers and leaves and traced edges with black marker.

I heat embossed the sentiment in white on a black cardstock paper stripe.

With all pieces ready, I arranged everything on a white top folded card base and when I liked my arrangement, I glued everything down. I wanted some dimension on my card, so I used 3-D foam to glue flowers and the sentiment on the card base. I glued leaves directly on the card base, but just the bottom part of each leaf and left top parts unglued. I curled a bit each leave and drew white highlights and dots on flowers and leaves to add more interest to my flowery arrangement.

As a finishing touch, I embellished the card with black enamel dots. :o)

Card dimensions: 95 mm x 127 mm (3 3/4" x 5")

List of supplies :

• Jane's Doodles 'Smile' stamp set (images)
• Jane's Doodles 'Belated Birthday' stamp set (sentiment)
• white cardstock paper
• black cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Opaque Bright White, Regular, WL01R)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Twisted Citron
• Salty Ocean
• 3-D foam scraps, 1 mm thick
• UHU universal glue
• Create a Smile enamel dots 'Neat and Neutral'
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• Ranger Heat It Tool
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• powder bag
• crafting needle
• scissors
• dry cloth
• 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) CRAFT-alnica, Izziv/Challenge #204: 5 istih stvari / 5 same things
This is my 1st entry to this challenge.
I used 5 black enamel dots on my card.

2) Little Miss Muffet Challenges, Challenge #182 - Anything Goes

3) Stempelküche, Challenge #87: Embossing - dry or heat
I heat embossed the sentiment.

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

Milka