Birthday Waves

A quick and easy card today.  A couple of stamps, paint some Distress Ink waves and you're done!  I'll probably make a few of these in different colour schemes - they'd be great for male cards.  I'm playing along with CAS(E) This Sketch:

I've used one of the three colour options from Make The Day Special:

I'm also entering it into Winnie & Walter Join In To Win

And Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, Anything Goes

And another entry into Keep It Simple - Watercolour.

Stamps: Winnie & Walter The Big, The Bold and The Happy
Distress Inks: Scattered Straw, Bundled Sage, Evergreen Bough

Party Time

I just love messing around with Distress Inks!  I wanted some solid-image bunting so I performed some delicate surgery on one of the stamps in the Paper Smooches Tri-balation set.  See that solid three-triangle image top left?  I sliced it up with a craft knife so that I could turn it into a banner, and I also used the striped banner image from the set, coaxing it into a bit of a curve.

Then I splodged some Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Worn Lipstick and Salty Ocean onto an acrylic block, stamped my re-arranged triangles into the colours, spritzed and stamped onto the card panel, joining the images with a yellow marker pen.  I love the looseness and movement.  I stamped the striped banner and dragged some of the colour through with a wet paintbrush.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:-

Paper Smooches SPARKS Picture Perfect Challenge

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge

A new one for me, Cure For The Monday Blues, which is already up to Challenge #13!

And Time Out Challenge, where it's a birthday card, with the optional twist of a masculine card.  Well, men's cards don't have to be dull colours, do they?

ETA: Forgot to add it to Make The Day Special Challenge - Anything Goes