Magical Birthday

Good afternoon all,

I don't have a lot of birthday cards to make throughout the year, but right now birthdays are coming along like buses .. yesterday was both a family member and a friend's birthdays.  My dear friend Christine gifted me a Lavinia voucher for my birthday earlier this year, so I thought it would be good to make her a magical Lavinia birthday card ... and here it is.

The underlying premise of this card was that I wanted to try making bubbles, so the whole design was based around that! 

First I used a circle mask and sponged Distress Oxide inks to create my sun and sky, then hill masks to create my landscape. I stamped my fairy Olivia with the flower head of her dandelion masked, so I could then hand draw a bubble blower with a fine liner. I created my bubbles with a home made circle mask and various colours of DO + Posca pen highlights following the method in this Natasha Foote Youtube tutorial, then I additionally outlined the bubbles with Sakura stardust pen. I actually made an error at this point as I meant to outline all the bubbles with my clear sparkle pen, but I accidentally picked up my gold pen for one of the smaller bubbles, and drew round the left side before I noticed. Luckily I thought this looked a bit like the sun's reflection, so I outlined the left sides of all the other bubbles in gold to match!! 

I stamped my fence and gate plus a variety of trees and flowers using various colours of Versafine Clair and 1st/2nd generation stamping, then coloured my fairy wings and added more highlights with my Sakura sparkle pens. I reverse masked the sun and added some 2nd generation text stamping over it. At this point I wasn't sure where to place the sentiment, so decided to encase it in the largest bubble; so I masked a sentiment to allow me to stamp it over several lines. I finished by outlining the image panel with black pen and matting onto pearlescent turquoise card stock.

Stamps: Lavinia - Olivia small, Tree of Faith, Small Trees, Gate and Fence, Wild Summer Flower, Bluebells, Field Grass, Birds, Faerie Spells; Crafter's Companion - Magical Sentiments;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Tumbled Glass, Squeezed Lemonade, Mown Lawn, Rustic Wildreness, Spun Sugar, Shaded Lilac, Salvaged Patina, Salty Ocean); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Pinecone, Green Oasis, Charming Pink, Warm Breeze); Sakura Stardust pens (clear, pink, gold).

Challenges I would like to enter:

AAA Birthdays #40 - Anything Birthday Goes (2nd entry)

Arty Divas (August) - Anything Goes

Country View Challenges (August) - Happy Birthday (3rd entry)

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #150 - Silhouettes (2nd entry)

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2234 - Anything Goes

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Shimmer and Shine

Stamping Sensations (August) - Make It Magical (2nd entry)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

We love Stamping (August) - In the Garden (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #557/558 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

That's me done for today, though I had so much fun creating those bubbles I think I will be back with more before too long! Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,