Kind of a funny story...as I was going over this years retiring list of stamps and marking my catalog (I always use a highlighter so I can easily see at a glance what has retired) I came to the Birthday Blossom set. I was a little surprised to see this one on the retirement list...as I had already accidentally retired it myself last year!
So for an entire year, this poor neglected set had mistakenly been exiled to my retired shelf getting minimal use! It's companion set -
Flower Shop and the coordinating
Pansy Punch have always been well loved, and when the
Birthday Blossom set came out I was happy to have the pretty background image, a leaf and the nice sentiments written in such a beautiful font. to go along with the set of six flowers. I used both sets on this card along with several retiring colors. If you already have the Flower Shop set, I highly recommend getting this one to go with it.
To create the background I simply used my ink pads to ink up a large acrylic block and then spritzed it with a little water before using it to stamp the Whisper White background piece. The colors I used are:
- Island Indigo
- Rose Red
- Sweet Sugarplum
- Tempting Turquoise
- Wild Wasabi
You want to be sure that the colors you place side by side will mix together well. For instance, placing the
Wild Wasabi next to the
Rose Red would have created a brownish tone, while placing it next to the
Island Indigo instead, created more of a purple tone. For more on the Watercolor Background Technique you can
check out this post I shared a while back.
Pretty much everything used on this card, with exception of the Basic Black ink & card stock and the Whisper White card stock is being retired.
