This is for Robin and Francie's fun Free for All challenge "Where's my Mojo".
When my mojo goes on holidays without me, I reach for my favourite old garden and tree stamps, distress inks, liquid pearls and a crazy bird to dress up.
The background was quick and easy - smack a distress ink pad onto aluminium foil, squirt on water and dunk the card in the watery puddle. Dry, then repeat process, using a different colour. Dry, repeat until desired effect.
Once the background is nice and dry, I stamped on the garden and trees. When I don't want these things to be a feature, I use any black ink pad that's lost its intensity (which is what I did here).
Alternatively you can stamp all the garden on before the background is 100% dry, the black ink will sort of bleed into the background ink as the entire panel dries.
Of course you can use a good ink pad and just stamp off the first inking.
When DH saw this he suggested that her knees weren't level. He said that as though seeing a bird wearing a pink hat and a lace mini skirt, was somehow normal!
This is going to a friend who is turning 70. In a really faint (aka dried out) micron pen, I wrote the number 70, seventy times on the card. The sentiment by Stampendous, was embossed so it would stand out a bit more - thank goodness for MISTI.
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