Birthday card for December Mixed Media Card Challenge

Hi!
December is here, and so is our new Mixed Media Card Challenge. Theme this month is 'Celebration':





Even if we are entering the festive season with many reasons to celebrate, yet I wanted to make a mixed media birthday card. I was especially pleased with the background of my project; I loved the pattern of Andy Skinner/Stampendous 'Industrial' stamp, and for highlighting it I decided to use simple white die-cut elements on top:







For the background I used a leftover piece of watercolor paper. I started the background with mixing various Distress paints on the paper, and once the paint was dry I added another color layer with white acrylic paint. The pattern was stamped with black Archival ink.






Flower and leaves are die-cut (for flower I used this lovely new Bigz die and for the leaves this Tim Holtz Decorative strip die). Under the flower there's a punched scalloped circle that I glued on the background.
Before rolling the flower I inked the edges lightly with orange Distress ink.






Hop over to MMCC blog to see the entire collection of mixed media cards made by the Design Team. I hope you get inspired and play along!


Wishing you a lovely day,
Hugs,
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7 comments

  1. Great colors on your background - and what a great stamp! Your white flower/stems are a wonderful neutral layered on top!

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  2. This is fabulous, Elina! I love the grungy background, and your flower and leaves stand out beautifully on it.

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  3. Your background looks spectacular and the flower is gorgeous! Beautiful card. hugs

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  4. OOOOO, this is beautiful. I love it, Elina!

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  5. Grungy, eclectic, and oh-so-cool! I love it!

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  6. Beautiful card. The dark grunge background really makes the rose pop!

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