Happy Birthday Mum

 Mum had an official birthday in the summer this year rather than celebrating on the day with everyone.  I still wanted to make her a special card for her and thought the Agapanthus stamp from Clarity would work well.

Add the large A6 Agapanthus stamp onto the front of a 6" x 6" white card blank in Antique Linen Distress Oxide and mask it up. 

Add the circles stencil from the Basic Backgrounds set over the front of the card and mask off a section.

Blend Sap Green Archival ink through the apertures with a soft brush and remove the stencil.

Replace with the hearts stencil from the same set, mask off a section and blend Pink Peony Archival ink through the apertures.  Remove the stencil.

Finish with the stripe stencil and French Ultramarine Archival ink.  Remove the stencil and flower masking.

Colour the flowers with Faber-Castel watercolour pencils picked up off a mix mat with a watercolour brush pen.(#167, #143, #119, #108).

Add a drop shadow in Cold Grey IV (#233) in the same manner.

Add Happy Birthday Mum in Jet Black Archival ink using the Entwined Sentiment and Barbara's Relations stamps.

To finish, stamp over the original image in Jet Black Archival ink.