Best Wishes

 Hello here is a card I really enjoyed making and wanted to share with everyone. This was a little messy to start with but I love making a mess in a name of creativity. I started off by stamping directly onto my craft sheet with Tim Holtz distress inks Forest Moss and Mustard Seed in roughly the size of A6 rectangle and with my water brush I mixed the two colours randomly together and splashed a few drops of water onto it. I then got a piece of A6 200gsm white card and placed onto the top of  ink on the craft sheet and gently pressed down, moved it from side to side to give a random colour pattern. Carefully picking up the card I dried off the ink using my heat tool. I wasn't completely satisfied with the result so using a sponge and the Forest Moss distressing ink using circle motions starting from the outside and headed towards the centre but not all the way. When I was happy I dried it off  again using the heat tool. To finish the background I used an ivy rubber stamp from "Docrafts" Ive had this stamp for a while but this is the first time I have used it and I pleased with the way it has stamped out. Using a permanent  black ink I stamped a random pattern and once the ink had dried I added more colour on the leaves using a yellow, green and blue pencil crayon.

When I was happy with the background my focus was turned to the foreground and I have been dying to try out my Spellbinders Shapeabilities Cherry Blossom dies and now I had my chance, I cut and embossed them onto some Coredinations from Tim Holtz and Ranger distress collection card stock and using a sanding block I sanded the embossed area of the branch and cherry blossoms. I glued it to the back ground and decided it need more so I hand drew a bird onto some 200gsm white card stock and using some Zig Kurecolour alchol based markers I coloured it in.  I stamped the best wishes stamp using a permanent black ink. I hope you all enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed making it.