CAS Birthday Card- Blue Blooms

Hi Friends :)

I recently acquired my first set of uniko stamps (Bev was kind enough to send them along with my blog hop win and they reached me all the way from the UK in 4 days!! isn't that super cool?) Their stamp designs are truly beautiful! I had a tough time picking a few from the great variety. Uniko is celebrating it's 5th birthday year and here is wishing them loads of creative vigor, joy, and success along with a big Happy Birthday!! To join in on the festivities and fun events I have created a CAS birthday card today. I have tried to incorporate the themes of the challenges I wanted to play along with :)

The card is a top folding A2 size one. I wanted to do water coloring so I inked up one of the flowers and 2 of the leaves from the beautiful blooms I stamp set with distress inks and stamped them onto some bielo cardstock. Then I moved the color around with my water brush (since distress ink reacts with water to behave like a water color). Then I die cut them out and added shading and details with a water brush using colors from the distress inkpads, some zig markers and camlin markers (I have a 12 pack of zigs which is limited in its color profile, so I have to find creative ways of adding more colors to the palette, hence, I often mix and match zigs with other color options) To make the blooms and leaves pop I added some white dots with a white pen (this was a tip I saw on Jennifer McGuire's youtube channel sometime back). These florals were arranged on the card and pasted with Tombow aqua glue. I wanted the sentiment to look elegant and muted and let the blooms be the star of the show, also to keep the CAS style alive, I wanted lots of white space. So the sentiment is a white die cut. To finish off I added 3 enamel dots to the card. I also added some slight shimmer to the florals with clear wink of stella.

Supplies Used:

1. Iris cardstock 250 gsm and Bielo Cardstock 300 gsm

2. Uniko stamps and die- Beautiful Blooms I 

3.Ranger's distress mini inkpads- broken china, peacock feathers, chipped sapphire

4. Ranger's distress inkpads- twisted citron and evergreen bough

5. Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens- pack of 12

6. Camlin Brush Pens- pack of 6

7. Water Brush

8. Enamel Dots 

9. Sizzix Tim Holtz Celebration Script Words Die

10. Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue 

11. Uniball Gigno White Gel Pen
12. Clear Wink of Stella Brush 

Here are a couple of pictures of the finished card: 

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.

I am playing along with the following challenges:

Uniko 5th Birthday Linky Party

AAA cards- CAS game #84 - watercolors (I have done watercoloring and used 3 of the colors from the colors shown in the graphic)

Uniko Challenge #39- Anything Goes (I have given the optional twist a miss here) 

Happy Little Stampers February CAS challenge- blue (I have used 3 shades of blue in this card)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Fantastic Florals