Sending you birthday wishes

Here's my card for July's Pantone colour challenge inspired by Ballet Slipper pink!

Happily Lawn Fawn has some great ink colours that fit this challenge - the aptly named Ballet Slippers and Minty Fresh along with the other shades I've used...

Stamps: WPlus9 - Freehand Florals, Winnie & Walter - Sending You, PTI - Phrase Play #6
Die: Avery Elle - Custom Panels
Other: MISTI, post-it tape, sparkle tape, enamel dots

So my plan was to use an alternative colour palette for the lovely Freehand Floral stamps from WPlus9 - rather than a traditional green for the leaves I wanted to use mint and aqua tones to contrast against the pink florals. For a contrasting neutral tone I used two shades of grey for the flower spray stamps and peach tones for some of the larger blooms.

This was my first go at using post-it tape to mask out the area where you want to add a sentiment - it did do OK, but as the inks being stamped over the top were stamped multiple times it got a little wet and the ink did seep through a little in places but it is hardly noticeable. I think next time I mask off an area like this for stamping I will use blue painter's tape or a second layer of post-it tape. :)

I really like the end result for separating the white space and stamped background.

I paired the Sending You stamp from Winnie & Walter with the "birthday wishes" sentiment from PTI. That Phrase Play #6 set is a really handy one for mixing with this Winnie & Walter set.

Finally when mounting my stamped background on a card I used some Sparkle Tape from Darice to add a little pop of glitter and the ballet pink enamel dots from Crate Paper's Little You Girl line bring it all together.

Here's a reminder of the original prompt for this challenge:

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 Now I just need to start on the backlog of cards from previous months!

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