Sealed With a Kiss

What do you think takes the most time, colouring the image, creating the rest of the card, finding the verse for inside the card, or.....making up the blog post. If it were numbers and spreadsheets I would be fine, but....oh well, here goes.

Using the Sarah Kay stamp, 'A Kiss for Chloe', this card can be entered into the Stampavie Challenge #29 Hot/Summer.

They may be wearing long pants, but they have bare feet, so I gave it a summer evening theme, with the sun setting behind them. Except for a few layers of paper and a gold dragonfly, the image is the card.

The image was stamped and heat embossed to preserve the outline definition, then coloured with water colours.

The background is made with distress inks and a brayer, masking with paper scraps to protect the image and also to create different layers and depths of colour. I still have a lot to learn with this technique, but it was fun to do.

Other challenges that this card can enter:
..Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Sing it Baby (Sealed with a Kiss)
...Practical Scrappers - Use your #1 favourite product (distress ink)
....Simple Doodles - #23 Get out of the box (new technique)
.....Whoopsie Daisey - use the colours Blue and Green

In addition, I am entering into the competition at Polka Doodles, in conjunction with Letraset,for a set of Aquamarkers.