Spinning Happy Birthday!

Congratulations to this week's Featured Stamper, Jocelyn (JoBear2).

I chose this card as my inspiration:

LIST: Colours (red, blue, brown, orange), Techniques (die cut, stamping & colouring), Elements (rich background design, simple happy birthday sentiment, positive and negative die cuts, cute critter, twine bow)

INCLUDE: background, simple happy birthday, negative die cut element

MODIFY: colours, technique (salad spinner alcohol inks), layout

EXCLUDE: cute critter, bow

SPIN: add jewels

I started by creating my background paper with alcohol inks and a salad spinner (thanks, Karen Dunbrook for this easy and fun technique!).

I have found that if you layer up your colours by using one colour at a time, spinning and letting it dry before adding the next one, rather than dropping them all in at once, you get a more defined colour pattern like this one. Not that you can really control it! lol!

For the negative die cut element, I used Ellen Hutson essential rectangles dies to create a negative frame. This adds interest and definition without actually cutting down the background, and I really love the edges of this panel!