Monday, September 7, 2020

Masculine birthday

Hi all,
Playing in a few challenges today. I started with the color challenge over at Sunday Stamps (went with all but the gold) and made it a masculine card (the paper players) with the harlequin and leaf print.


You can just barely see the harlequin stencil bottom lower left - spritzed it with water after blending oxide inks in the following colors: Fired brick, antique linen and cracked pistachio.

Skeleton leaf stamps is from the stampin' place and the birthday sentiment is from Poppy stamps. Splattered some burnt umber copic marker using the Tim Holtz spritzer bulb thingy. I didn't like that, it was coming out too fine, so I switched up to watering down some vintage photo oxide ink and picking it up with a very small paint brush to splatter. Much better! 

I got lucky matching the light teal cardstock with the cracked pistachio that I lightly blended onto the bristol card stock.  

That's all for today - thanks for stopping in.
 

6 comments:

Heather said...

Gorgeous delicate coloring of your background here - came out simple stunning! Love the little leaf ghosts throughout! Thanks so much for playing at Sunday Stamps!

Claire Broadwater said...

Laurie, what a fabulous way to combine both challenges! I love the leaves and the blending! Just gorgeous! SO happy you joined us at Sunday Stamps and the Paper Players!!!!!

Stamps-N-Lingers said...

Wow! The subtle designs are absolutely stunning in their barely-there-ness! I really love this card! Thanks for sharing your project with us this week at The Paper Players! :)

Joanne James - The Crafty Owl said...

What a wonderful card Laurie! I think it's the subtlety of the pattern and design that makes it so mesmerising. Absolutely beautiful for either a male or female recipient. Thanks for playing along with us at The Paper Players this week!

Heidi Baks said...

Lovely background! The subtle detail you've added really adds dimension to your card. Thanks for joining Sunday Stamps this week.

Jaydee said...

Fabulous background, so much interest in that subtle pattern. Perfect masculine card. So glad you joined us at the Paper Players this week
Jaydee