As I mentioned a few days ago, one of the perks of being a demonstrator is that you get a sneak peek of the new catalogue a month before it goes live. One of the drawbacks perhaps is seeing what isn’t being carried over from the Occasions catalogue. Moon Lake is one such set; so another one to get more use out of this month before it’s gone. I’m a bit sad that it’s not in the new catalogue because this set seems to made for masculine birthday cards. Julia seems to agree since she wanted this card for her brother in law.

I thought that this was a blue tit and pulled up an image from google and it does seem to be one. At least, I decided to try to colour it that way. I stamped the image on watercolour paper in the jet black stazon and then used marina mist, so saffron, wild wasabi and crumb cake for the water colouring. I mounted the watercolour paper on a piece of basic black using sticky strip. I decided where I wanted this to be mounted on the crumb cake base so that I could determine the position of the sentiment which I wanted to stamp first. The sentiment is from Endless Birthday wishes and is stamped in memento black ink (it’s easier to clean!) . After that, I glued the image onto the card.

See you tomorrow,

Liz