Mixed Media Birthday

Hi everybody.  I have a feminine card today featuring a bit of mixed media using another piece of the napkin I used for this card here, and also using a heart stencil with texture paste, and some stamps from a set which came with a Phil Martin Box Kit 12 which came out a while ago but which I am only just using for the first time.  I also used three Distress Inks - Blueprint Sketch, Worn Lipstick and Hickory Smoke.

I started by laying some pink ink down onto a piece of acrylic and spritzed it with water before pressing it onto the card in the areas where I wanted it in a sort of triangle over the righthand corner of a piece of white card cut to fit a 6" square card.  I did this several times and then I cut a piece of the napkin which has the flowers in a border using just one quarter of it so it fitted into the same corner, and actually it was a bit too long and I cut the extreme left flower off and added it in towards the top righthand side as that area was a bit thinner and adding it there filled it out a bit.  I used some Mod Podge glue on the back of the piece and then more over the front to make sure the edges were firmly glued down.  I perhaps went rather mad and used more glue than necessary to take it over the edges, and in a certain light you can see it even though it has a matte finish.  I then decided to use the little heart stencil bought from The Range a long while ago, and which came in a pack with several other heart patterned stencils.  I spread the Titanium coloured paste over the area covered by the napkin and after it was dry I got out the Phil Martin stamps featuring postmarks, a couple of different splatts and a piece of music using the three colours mentioned above.  The Worn Lipstick is a cube and is beginning to dry up, and the Hickory Smoke is rather a pale grey so that doesn't show all that much but I did it in my stamp positioner and inked and stamped several times, but I think maybe it could have been a little bit darker.  I decided to add the two butterfly images which were on the napkin too and then finished by adding a sentiment using the blue ink and heat embossed it with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.

Thank you for dropping by to see me today and I'll see you again soon.

I am entering the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge - No 836 Christmas Cards/Anything Goes.

Stencil Fun Challenge - Nov. '25 Anything Goes/Golden Days.

WeLove2Create Challenge - No. 11 Anything Goes.

Triple B Challenge - Nov. '25 Using one, two or all three of Birds, Butterflies or Blooms.

NBUS Challenge - No. 80 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.