Pink Party Pig Birthday Trio

Greetings, BlogFolk! How's it going? We finally saw sunshine again after a deluge of a rainy week.

I've a birthday card to share today. The idea began as usual with a sketch, but also needing it to be pink and use stickers, water coloring, a stencil, embossing and feature critters...and flat enough to mail in an envelope.

  

I followed Crazy4Challenges current C4C518 which is the sketch above. I turned it landscape.

The adorable pig trio is a Bugaboo digi. I printed out on index stock with my laser printer, then colored them with my ProMarkers. The sentiment at upper left is from a Gerda Steiner clear stamp set. I used some pretty old glossy black dimensional alpha stickers to spell out Hog Wild.

I made the background layer by adding a few drops of Distress Ink Picked Raspberry Distress Ink reinker and water to some Deco Art molding paste and applying it to my water color paper background through a TCW chicken wire stencil/mask. Once completely dry, I got out my el cheapo water colors that had the only pretty shade of light pink and then I watercolored the background. Last step on the background was ink-distressing all around the edge with a blending brush and Picked Raspberry.

I die cut the Avery Elle flags out of more pink water colored paper. A small white paper doilly is tucked on the bottom left layer. I die cut the focal image using Spellbinders Mega Curved Rectangles, as well as the smaller sentiment and the pink water-colored frame behind the focal image. I Stickled some little dots under Go Wild! and used my Sakura metallic glitter gold gel pen to add some sparkly accents.

On the inside of the card, I stamped Avery Elle sentiments and a Hero Arts cake.

I looked in my paper stash and found the yellow paper with pink dots for the back of the card. I ink distressed all around the edge with Picked Raspberry DI. Then I took a Lawn Fawn flag die cut and water colored it purple. I stamped and heat-embossed the EKSuccess siggie and then punched it out with my Fiskars Squeeze circle punch.

A close-up to show those cool alpha stickers that I forgot I had!

I love the intensity of the juicy pink colors and that was a very pleasant surprise to me, as I never really know what I'll end up with when I water color or emboss or ink blend. And I love the molding paste chicken wire, although it looks more like fishnet hose to me now, hahaha.

CHALLENGES:
1.   Crazy4Challenges C4C518: Sketch -- shown above
2.   Creations in Pink Jan. Challenge: AG Mainly Pink
3.   Bugaboo Catch the Bug Jan. Bingo Challenge -- I chose Distressed / Bugaboo image / Die Cuts.

4.   Time Out Challenge #153:  Wardrobe Item + Opt. Embossing/Texture -- PARTY HATS is my wardrobe item and I have played the option with stencil embossing that created textured on the background.

5.   Colour Crazy Challenge Week 2 -- I colored the party pigs with ProMarkers
6.   HLS Watercolor Jan Challenge: AG + Opt. Die Cuts -- I have water colored and played the option, the focal digi is on a die cut and the flags and feathers as well.  

7.   We Love 2 Create Challenge #1: Anything Mixed Media Goes -- I used inks, watercolors, stenciling, collage.
8.   Outlawz Crash Your Stash Jan Challenge: Use a Stencil(s) -- I used a chicken wire stencil and mask
9.   I Love ProMarkers Challenge #402: AG + Opt. Embossing -- I have colored my image with ProMarkers and I played the option, heat-embossing the feathers and the stencil-embossing with the chicken wire stencil.
10. Stamplorations Jan. Stencil Challenge -- AG with a stencil (I used a chicken wire stencil and mask)

11. 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #34: AG with a Critter - I have Bugaboo pigs
12. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends 5th Anniversary Challenge #123: AG
13. Outlawz Thursday Twist 1/16-1/29: AG + Opt. First Embellishment Ever Used -- I have played the optional twist by using Stickers, which were my first embellies used (I used some very old glossy black alpha stickers for "Hog Wild").

Thanks for visiting and allowing me to share my creativity with you. Hope your weekend is wild and crafty! XOX