Another birthday card

On this card I have used some retiring colours and my favourite stamp "off the grid" that's also retiring, colours used, midnight muse, gumball green, summer star fruit (all retiring) and soft sky (not retiring). Other stamps used are gorgeous grunge and perfect pennants. 

The inside message from hostess set express yourself - another retiring set but such a useful set.

Playing with inks

I was asked to cut a plain white page of squares for someone at my craft club, but the blade wasn't deep enough so it basically embossed the page, but as you know I can't throw anything away, I thought how could I use this.  Well I thought I would play with some inks on it.  I have spayed with Dylusions inks and mica spray inks.  I have used distress inks through a mask, the metal floor effect. I have used some grunge stamps.  I have also just rubbed the ink pad over the page.

I then thought, there is not enough on the page, so found a scroll mask/ stencil, so stencilled through this with a black Promarker pen.

 

I'm loving the effect, but I still don't know quite what to do with it!