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Welcome to my blog!  Today's card was made just for fun and covers a few of the current challenges.  I made it specifically to send to a blogging friend.  Most of the time the cards I make never get sent :( but this one was made with someone in mind.  It will be sent on its way across the ocean tomorrow.

So I used the colors at Color Throwdown, as well as the sketch at MFT.  I'm also linking to the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp, who happen to be featuring Ranger products and I have used Distress Inks on my card.

I white embossed the Geometric Grid background stamp onto some water color paper and dropped on some Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron ink.  After heat-setting it, I went back over a few spots, dropping more ink on.  Finally I splattered some Peacock Feathers ink onto the panel.  Once it was dry, I cut it down into two panels to mimic the sketch and put it aside.

The bottle was die-cut from watercolor paper and painted with Twisted Citron ink.  At the time, I wasn't thinking about its placement on the card and in hindsight, I should have put the angle going the other way, but we'll blame the gravity in the Southern Hemisphere for the weird look :)  For that reason, and as a bit of fun, I'm linking this to Darnell's boo-boo blog hop.  It's not a major boo-boo but still a bit funny.  As an aside, apparently toilets flush the opposite direction in the Southern Hemisphere.  I have no idea if that is true, but I remember many years ago having a Skype conversation with a friend in New Hampshire about this very subject.  From memory, I don't think we came to a conclusion.

Back to the card.  The label was made from a piece of watercolor paper that I smeared Peacock Feathers ink onto.  Once it was dry, I white embossed the image.  The bottle cap is cut from a tiny sliver of the Dazzling Diamonds glitter paper by SU - a gorgeous white glittery paper.  I painted the "liquid" in the bottle with clear Wink of Stella and added some rainstones to look like bubbles at the top.  And yes I know the bottle is still capped, but I've taken some artistic licence :)

Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps:  Geometric Grid Background (MFT), Soda Pop (MFT)

Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid, Versamark, Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron

Cardstock:  White, watercolor

Dies:  Soda Pop Bottles, Blueprints 25 (MFT)

Accessories:  White EP, Wink of Stella

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shout out at Color Throwdown.