New DT Birthday Card

Hi there everyone!! This is Carole Chesser here and I am so super excited to have my first DT post with Creative Inspirations! I still can't believe I get to be part of the team!!

This past week has been birthday central around my house, so I made a birthday card using a few Unity stamps. I thought I'd try painting directly onto my stamps and stamping with them, since I'd never used my paints that way before. As you can see, it worked out really well! It's definitely a different look, but I think it came out really cool, plus the shimmer is fantastic!
I especially love the look of the vine stamp down the left side of the card. I'm definitely going to be using this technique more often! I did learn that it works a lot better with a stamp that has more solid areas, rather than just outlines, such as the sentiment, but that did still work. I can hardly wait to try it with multiple colours!

I used Emerald on the vine and sentiment and Evergreen on the tree. I painted a second layer to add a little dimension after the first layer was about half dry. I wanted it to be a little streaky, so it looks more like it has depth.