Pineapple ft Butterfly Basics - Happy Birthday

Hello!

Finally, after two weeks of missing out,  I am able to take part in my favourite challenge - the Global Design Project challenge #040 - this week we are CASE-ing the designer Shawn de Oliveira!

I loved Shawn's card and was inspired mostly by his sketch and the watercolouring (which I am not good with at at all)! For a while now I wanted to play with the Pineapple background stamp and thought this would be the perfect occasion!

I am so proud of my watercolour background!

Shawn's de Oliveira's beautiful inspiration!

I used Soft Sky ink for the background. I also love that the greeting is placed to the side!

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Notes

• I used Sponge Daubers to add ink to my Pineapple Stamp. I love the effect it creates and it feels like I have more control over where the ink goes. I used two orange (Peekaboo Peach and Pumpkin Pie) inks and two green (Emerald Envy and Old Olive) inks for the Pineapple.
• My Paper Snips worked perfectly to fussy cut around the stamped Pineapple. 
• For the watercolour background I used a Spritzer to wet the Watercolor Paper, before dropping some ink on to it. Because I am impatient, I used a Heat Tool to rush the drying process. Feel free to add a second layer of ink to your background. I didn't feel the need... I was pretty happy with it as is!
• The greeting to the side was embossed with Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder and Pacific Point ink.

I love the Tropical feel of my card and didn't even add any embellishments! A first for me!

Let me know what you think! For your convenience I have now added a Pin Button to my images - feel free to Pin away!

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Thank you for having a look!

Take care!

Mel xx