you brighten my day

 Here's another card  using another of the boy fairies, Pan or Fip I can't remember which one is which. I used blending brushes and stampin up inks so saffron and one of the purples to create the background. The sentiment is from a stampin up set, but I can't find it in the main catalogue. I thought it was  a new set,  so maybe it's in the summer mini. I'll have to update this post when I find out the name of the set. The lanterns and foliage stamps are also from Lavinia stamps. I used Versaclair  black ink for the silhouettes. I love how intense and very black the ink is.

Boy Fairy card.

 I had a birthday earlier in the month and received some Lavinia stamps from  my step children, our daughter in law and their children.  I was chuffed to pieces with the selection of stamps I received and have been busy playing with some of them this week.  I can't remember whether this little guy is Pan or Fip. Whoever he is he's really cute. For the background foliage I used the larger of the two stamps in the leaf creeper set.

The background was made by squishing distress  oxide ink pads onto an oven mat, spritzing the ink on the mat  with water and dunking the water colour card into the watery inks and allowing to dry.

The patchy effect was created by sprinkling water over the dried card, allowing it to sit for at least 10 seconds before blotting off the water droplets. Allow the card to dry again before stamping the images.

I used Versafine Clair ink to stamp the image of the boy.