I need another birthday card. Yes, I do have a stash of them, but certain people get cards made just for them. Plus I want to play the Seize the Birthday Anything Goes and The Die Cut Divas Birthday challenges. I used this Freshly Made Sketch for inspiration.

For the background I started with watercolor paper, sprayed it with some water, and then began spraying with Seedless Preserves and Unchartered Mariner Distress sprays and more water, drying, spattering with water, drying, repeating, sometimes letting colors move, sometimes dabbing up some of the ink until I was happy with what I had and then let it dry naturally. Next I partially inked a swirly corner stamp from Inkadinkadoo, a cross hatched stamp from Stampin' Up's Timeless Textures set, and a script stamp, Sacred Spells from Lavinia and, without blocks, randomly stamped the background with black ink for texture. I then lightly brushed Hero Arts white pigment ink through parts of a Feathered Leaf stencil from Lavinia to provide still more texture. Lastly I swiped some silver metallic pigment ink from ColorBox along the edges and my background was done. I thought about adding white splatters, but then thought they might take away from the swirly feel of the background.
I cut the "A" or top layer of the Prismatic Triangle layering die set by Birch Press Design to use to ground what my pointy eared darlings will tell you is the most important part of the card, a cat cut using a die from Spellbinders' Kitty Cats die set. One of the things I love about this die cut is that you can wrap her tail through other die cuts on a card. The sentiment comes from Taylored Expressions' Birthday Simple Strips set and is stacked on another strip of paper to pop it up. Now I have a mixed media card for the
Mix It Up Anything Goes + Mixed Media Optional challenge.
Thank you for stopping by! Until next time, Hansi