Your Next Stamp May GDT - May Release Special Post

Hi everyone! :o)

Today is my sixth guest spot on the Your Next Stamp Blog and I'm sharing a card made with another stamp set from a new May Release (find all YNS new products here). :o)

You can find cards I made using other YNS May Release products here and here. :o)

For my today's card I used a super cute stork and baby image and lovely sentiment (adorable font ♥) from 'Baby Blessings' stamp set. Super cuteness overload!!! LOVE it!!! ♥

And here is my card: Welcome Little One Card. :o)

I made this card for my cousin's son, Luka. I'm visiting my cousin tomorrow, to meet her adorable baby boy who came to this World on April 1st.  :o)


How I made my card...

I ink blended a white cardstock panel with various blue tone Distress Inks. When I was satisfied with the color, I trimmed the panel a bit, because I didn't like edges. I stamped the image and the sentiment directly on the panel. I colored the image with a black fine liner.

Then I mixed a white tempera color with some water, splattered the panel and left it dry on air.

While the panel was drying, I stamped the image on a watercolor paper and colored it in watercolor technique using Distress Inks. I messed up stork's legs, so I stamped another image and watercolored only stork's legs.

After drying, I fussy cut images (parts I needed) and traced edges with a black marker.

I glued the panel on a white side folded card base. Then I glued fussy cut image pieces (2) on the panel, over the black colored image, and my card was finished. :o)

Card measurements: 117 mm x 86 mm (4 5/8"" x 3 3/8")

List of supplies:

• Your Next Stamp 'Baby Blessings' stamp set
• white cardstock paper
• watercolor paper
• Ranger's Archival Ink (Jet Black)
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• sky:
• Tumbled Glass
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Stormy Sky
• stork:
• Spiced Marmalade
• Hickory Smoke
• baby:
• Tea Dye
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Hickory Smoke
• bear:
• Salty Ocean
• Blueprint Sketch
• Stabilo Fiber Tip Pen, Black 68/46
• Mitsubishi Uni Pin 0.2
• Koh-i-noor tempera color (titanium white)
• UHU liquid glue
• Fiskars High Precision Personal Paper Trimmer
• bone folder
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. 3/0
• Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool
• water
• paper towels
• scissors

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) Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge, Week 22 - Anything Goes

This is my 1st entry to this challenge.

2) Uniko, Challenge #53 - Anything Goes
This is my 4th entry to this challenge.

At the end of this post...

Your Next Stamp runs Fun Friday Challenge where you can win an amazing prize. It's a fortnightly challenge. There's still some time to join current challenge, where the theme is School's Out for Summer. Find all the details over at Your Next Stamp challenge post (direct link on a badge below). :o)

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

Milka