Happy Pregnancy Card

Happy Friday! For today's post I was inspired by the sketch below which is over at the CAS(E) this Sketch! blog. I wanted to play around with a fun pregnancy stamp from Unity Stamps called Preggo-Good Luck. I love their snarky little sayings. I know we all have that one friend that appreciates sarcastic humor. So with that being said, here's my card for today:

I started with a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper and grabbed two distress inks in Picked Raspberry and Broken China. I loaded the paper up with water and then gradually added the ink using my heat tool to dry between coats. I wanted to make sure I didn't get too much purple mixing in the middle. I did do some brush flicking to get some random splatters after it was all dried. I next adhered and popped this watercolor piece up with foam tape to a A2 size white card base. 

Next, I used my Copics to color the image. I kept it really simple with cool grays and a little bit of pink on the plus sign. After fussy cutting the image, I used some silver thread to make a little "nest" which added some sparkle and texture to the card. I popped the image up with dimensionals and used it to keep the silver thread in place. The sentiment was stamped in black Versafine ink and heat set with clear embossing powder. My final touches were some glossy accents to the image and my favorite sparkling clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh. 

Here's a close up on the details. It's funny how those clear sequins picked up the background color. 

Be sure to check out the CAS(E) this Sketch! challenge blog to see what all of the other participants created. Lots of fun inspiration to peruse through!

Preggo-Good Luck *Tim Holtz DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK Ranger Ink TDA39549 Ranger Studio Paint ARTIST BRUSHES Brush BRU40842 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad PICKED RASPBERRY Ranger TDP40088 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Ink Pad BROKEN CHINA Ranger TDP39877 Simon Says Stamp WHITE CARDSTOCK 120 LB Base Weight 12 Pack 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent Copic BLENDING CARD X-Press It Paper Pack of 10 Copic Sketch Marker R20 BLUSH Pink Flesh Skin Copic Sketch MARKER C7 COOL GRAY Grey *Copic Marker REFILL C5 COOL GRAY Original Sketch & Ciao Copic Sketch MARKER C3 COOL GRAY Grey Copic Sketch MARKER C0 COOL GRAY NO. 0 Copic Sketch Marker C1 COOL GRAY Grey DMC Metallic LIGHT SILVER Embroidery Thread 283ZA Stampin' Dimensionals Ranger Embossing Powder SUPER FINE CLEAR Detail EPJ37385 Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82 Ranger Inkssentials MINI GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Adhesive .5oz GAC27898 Pretty Pink Posh SPARKLING CLEAR MIX Cupped Sequins

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