Inspirational Card Sketch #4

At the wonderful Inspirational Card Sketches blog it's now our Third week and so time for sketch challenge #4

This is a great sketch by the fabby Dawn, and even better as I found it a little challenging!!!

I've been meaning to have a real good go at using distress inks for colouring and this is my result! I used my heat resistant matt to create a palette where I squidged the different distress ink colours onto, to then go in with my water brush, I had to mix colours to try and coordinate with this gorgeous patterned paper. I hope I've explained it (notice all my professional technical terms!!!) so that you understand! I have cut the coloured Tilda out and mounted with 3d foam!

The gorgeous chipboard flower stickers I have mounted on 3d foam and by using my embossing buddy dusted on the back to de-tack them, so they won't get damaged in the post! Then I finished off with a little glossy accents on the flowers and on the paper!

click images to enlarge!

Materials:
Paper: Cloud9 - Hannah's Story, MM - natural, Cartridge card,
Stamps: Tilda (It's a Christmas stamp, that's good for everything!), PTI -mixed messages,
Die's: Sizzix - Bird and flowers, Nestabilities Ovals, Cut'bg - tag,
Ink: Impress - black, distress inks - mixed, gel pen - white,
Other: Cloud9 - chipboard stickers, American crafts - ribbon, 3D foam, adhesive gems, glossy accents.

Hope you will join in this week and make a card using the wonderful sketch. Remember you can turn, flip or do anything you like with the sketch. And it's even easier to show us your wonderful creations using Mr. Linky!!! Thanks for stopping by and am really looking forward to your creations,

Happy HuGs Kim x

And how wonderful to discover that my card was picked for the Fab5 over at 2Sketches4you thank you Laura and Kazan!

AND I will have even more news to share later! WOOO HOOO!!!!