Zen Birthday!

It's my eldest son's birthday today and this card fits some of his interests!

I spritzed some distress oxide inks onto white card and then blotted up some of the colour with a paper towel. You can just see some of the ripples from the towel!

I used my misti to stamp the monkey as I thought it might need a couple of stampings, then clear embossed it.

There were a lot of ink blotches in the monkey's body so I tried to paint over them with a white Neocolour II crayon and a water pen but it didn't work. 

Next I tried a white prismacolour pencil and that at least gave the monkey some definition.

I coloured the diecut numbers with peacock feathers distress ink and clear embossed them.

It's not perfect but I had fun making this one!

I'm linking up to these challenges:

Timeout,

Cardz 4 Guyz, no patterned paper.

Mix it Up Challenge playing along with the anything goes option

Watercooler Wednesday.

Supplies:

Distress oxide sprays - faded jeans; peacock feathers; iced spruce and cracked pistachio.

Distress oxide ink, peacock feathers, versamagic ink & clear ep

Katzelkraft jungle animals stamp; versafine clair ink & clear ep; Kaisercraft numbers die;

birthday sentiment sticker.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x