Take every birthday with a grain of salt

Sharing another card featuring one of the stamps from the Cocktails Blueprint set by Tim Holtz.

Have to say I am loving this set for adult cards, you can do the stamps up in so many ways.  For this card I’ve taken my layout from Freshly Made Sketches.  It was great for letting the stamp take centre stage.  As for the stamp, I stamped it in Barely Beige so I could do some no lines watercolouring.  Have to say it behaved a bit interestingly, the ink that is.  I also was a bit heavy handed with the aqua on the glass but you live and learn and I really am learning with my watercolouring.  Added in the salt rim with some glitter for a bit of a tactile touch.  And what is better as a sentiment for a card featuring some alcohol but one of Tim’s new Snarky Small Talk stickers?

Got my colours from the current palette at Cupcake Inspirations.  Not sure if they do have peach margaritas but went with it anyway and the lime was covered off with the image.  Matted onto cream cardstock and then also layered up the peach and lime cardstock so I could play along in the first challenge at Back to Basics and Beyond.  Gotta say I love my layering and matting!

I didn’t have any embellies that I thought really suited so I made my own epoxy sticker by printing off a lime image and covering it in Glossy Accents.  To finish off the card I traced over the words and lines of the stamp in black mostly because I forgot to mask and do that when I was stamping.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Stickles Dry Glitter ~ Clear Rock Candy

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie ~ Small Talk Snarky

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Multiliner ~ Black 0.5

Derwent Watercolour Pencils ~ 6 Deep Cadmium, 14 Deep Vermillion, 45 Mineral Green & 47 Grass Green

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors ~ No 50 Pale Aqua & No 51 May Green

Ranger ~ Glossy Accents

Simon Says Stamp! Ink ~ Barely Beige

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dried Marigold, Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass & Twisted Citron

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Apple Crush

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Peekaboo Peach & Very Vanilla

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS335 Cocktails Blueprint

Challenges

Back to Basics and Beyond #1 ~ Matting and Layering

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