You Are Amazing

Our Daily Bread Designs' current challenge at their blog is to make a card using this sketch:

As you can see, I basically followed the sketch exactly.

I started by choosing my stamps. I decided to use the ODBD "Hummingbird" stamp. I went through my sentiment stamps, and found the one that says "You Are Amazing," in the "Word Labels" set by Sizzix. I felt it went well with the image, so I chose that. (The fact that it fit perfectly in the space I had for the greeting didn't hurt, either! LOL) I stamped the hummingbird on watercolor paper using Colorbox Archival Dye Ink in Putty. The I die cut it with the coordinating die. When the ink had dried completely, I used my Inktense pencils and a paintbrush with water to color the image.

I used patterned papers from Graphic 45's "Botanical Tea" and BasicGrey's "Hey Girl" 6x6" pads. I cut a strip from each piece, and matted them with navy blue cardstock. I also matted a piece of lavender cardstock with the navy, and glued my patterned paper strips in place. Then I stamped the greeting with Hero Arts' Navy mid-tone shadow ink.

For the focal panel, I used my mini ink blender tool to ink a piece of textured white cardstock with Tumbled Glass Distress ink. I then die cut & embossed the panel using one of Spellbinders' "Labels Four" dies. While the cardstock was still in the die, I went around the inner edges with more Tumbled Glass. This darkened the panel towards the center, and left the edge a lighter blue, to give it a matted look without adding another layer. I glued the hummingbird onto this panel, and adhered it to the card front with foam tape. And that finished this fairly quick and simple card.