Hip Hip Hooray Birthday Painter

 Once again, I used Barbara Gray's project which came with the September Clarity New Design Club stencil as a starting point, but then went off in my own direction.

Attach NDCS #136 to a postcard from the Celebrations 2 collection with low tack tape.

I decided to substitute one of the colours that Barbara used and went with Uncharted Mariner, Seedless Preserves and Bundled Sage Distress Oxides.  I brushed these over the card, building colour on the left and getting lighter towards the right.  The stencil and masking were then removed.

Next, I trimmed the postcard to 6" x 5".

I then added one of the Mr Painter stamps in Jet Black Archival ink.

I restamped the same image onto a piece of scrap copy paper that I had used to clean off my brushes, and fussy cut the overalls and hat.

These were then added to the postcard with Pritt stick.

I finished the image by colouring with Albrecht Dürer watercolour pencils, blended with a watercolour brush pen (#135, #132, #102, #189, #231, #178).

I then edged the topper with a black Sharpie pen and added it to the front of a 7" x 7" white card blank.

To finish, I added one of the I am Essential Birthday sentiment stamps in Jet Black Archival ink.