Penny Black Balloon Ride Birthday Card

 

Hi everyone 😀

Today I am sharing a Birthday Card that I made for my beautiful niece:

This is also my card for the following Challenge:

 Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - It's up in the Air

The main image is by Penny Black - Balloon Ride.  Isn't it just so adorable?!!  I stamped it onto watercolour paper using Versafine Onyx Black ink and coloured it with a mix of different pencils:  Lyra Watercolours, Faber-Castell Albrecht-Durer Watercolours and Derwent Inktense.  I added some white highlights on the balloons using a White Gel Pen then added Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush which you can't really tell in the photo but it made them look more translucent.

Here is a close-up:

I went over the black lines with a Copic .01 Black Multiliner to darken them up.   I added some Kindyglitz Crystalina Glitter glue to the bear's cheeks.   I coloured some white glitter cardstock using Distress Inks to match the colours of the designer papers and punched them using a very old but very loved punch:  Carl CP-8 Heart Duo and glued them around the image using Tombow Mono Aqua glue.  The panel and designer paper layers were diecut using Lifestyle Nesting Card Templates and my Big Shot.

The sentiment is from an old Lili of the Valley UK unmounted rubber set called Circular Sentiments - For You.  I have used this set countless times over the years and it has many different ones to suit whatever occasion you need it for.   LOTV have reissued this set as photopolymer and is available in their Etsy Store - LotvDigiShop.  I coloured the wee flowers on the sentiment with my watercolour pencils and added some glitter to them.  I used Lifestyle Nesting Circle and Nesting Scallop Circle dies to diecut the sentiment panel.

The designer papers are by My Mind's Eye - Collectable - Unforgettable and are really old - from 2013 so LONG retired.  

The centre panel was punched using an EK Success Scalloped Scallop border punch.

I kept thinking I needed to add something else to my card and pulled out flowers, ribbons, twine, buttons, charms, rhinestones and pearls - but just couldn't get anything to look right and in the end, I gave up and left it as it was because I had literally spent hours fiddling and needed to get it in the mail.  Honestly it took longer fiddling than it took to make the rest of the card which came together quickly.   So frustrating!

Once I had finished my card front, I glued it to an Anko White Card Base using Tombow Mono Multi glue.

Finished size is 6" x 6" or 150mm x 150mm.

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Penny Black - Balloon Ride - 30-545 clear set, Lili of the Valley - For You Circular Sentiments unmounted rubber

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Inks (for colouring glitter cardstock)

Designer Paper:  My Mind's Eye - Collectable - Unforgettable 6" x 6" pad (retired - from 2013)

Accessories:  Stamping Platform, We R Memory Keepers Layer Guides, Tombow Mono Multi and Mono Aqua Glues, Born #2 Round Taklon Paintbrush, Lyra + Faber-Castell Albrecht-Durer Watercolour Pencils, Derwent Inktense Pencils, Bellbird Paperarts Watercolour Paper (retired), Big Shot, Copic Multi-Liner .01 Black Pen, Kindyglitz Crystalina Glitter Glue, Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Brush, White Gel Pen, White Glitter Cardstock, Raw Umber Cardstock, Anko White Card Base (K-Mart)

Dies:  Lifestyle Nesting Card Templates DCD431 (retired), Lifestyle Nesting Circles L-CC-001 (retired), Lifestyle Nesting Scallop Circles (retired)

Punches:  EK Success Scalloped Scallop border EKPL8003, Carl CP-8 Heart Duo