Hummingbird Birthday

Happy Saturday afternoon, and welcome. It's an overcast cool & breezy day here at our house. Yesterday morning we had some good steady soaking rain - which made a nice change of weather pace. Mr. is off to an all day vintage car show with a neighbor. So things are very much quieter than usual around the place. Our daughter's birthday is next week, and I've worked on this card for a bit. Did 3 attempts...the best was my first effort, but then I did my usual...add just one more little thing. Which in this case, was a silvery sheen spray made of white perfect pearls and water. I shook it well, but it still splodged. First here's the finished card..which was the third effort, and after it got finished, I didn't touch it again, until I added the sentiment after I had trimmed it out & matted it.

- Whispers wooden stamp - fairly large, so used the Bonnie's Best stamp press to get a crisp clear image. Colored with copics, some WoS after coloring. The first effort on this image, had more intense colors. I just selected various shades of greens for the leaves and had some good shading going on. On the flower, I used RV & BV colors, and on the first go-round, I was very happy with the results. (I'll share the photos of the 3 tries). Trimmed out portions of #2 - which had a background boo-boo, and did a little stylus work with some leaves, the hummer's head and a couple of the petals. Doesn't show in the photo, but looks quite nice IRL.

- on the background, in places just did scribbles with the 0000 colors of BG, YG and R. In other places tried to do the Pointilissim (dots) technique...which I don't do very well.

- Sentiment is the large font from HLS Bold Birthday Sentiments and on the inside - the smaller Birthday from that set is stamped on the top edge, with a nice verse on the bottom half of the insert. Used Memento Elderberry used for the sentiment & verse.

- black glitter paper for a skinny mat, and a light purple textured Bazzil for thecard base.




Sprayed Perfect Pearls water mixture, and it really splodged up



This one had a blob of pink under the wing that didn't blend well and couldn't be 'erased' with the colorless blender. This is the one that was trimmed out, to use as an overlay on the finished card to add some dimension

  

After coloring this image 3 times, once this one was finished, it got put aside, and I vowed not to touch it until time to trim & put on a card. The colors were not as intense on #3 as #1. For some reason, this was not an easy image to color...I worked on it several nights (on just the 1st one! then messed it up).

 





 



 

 Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I hope your weekend is off to a great start, and please do come back again soon. Hope to have something to post tomorrow for the September Rudolph Day Challenge.  In the meantime, Hugs & Blessings.