A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, and Re-do of my Gelli Print Fail

Hello and welcome! 

It's Saturday again and that means it's time already for a new theme at Allsorts challenge! This week it's Lorraine's turn to host and she would like to see something "For a Child". We have some great prizes to give away - a digi prize by  Ruth Hamilton Design and some Wizard of Oz stamps. Hope you'll join in for your chance to win!

And here is what I made:

I decided to ink up this cute Mimi stamp from the Penny Black set Big Wish. Stamped with Versafine Onyx on Bristol Vellum paper and I first gave the image a light coloring with distress inks then got my Faber Castell Polychromos out to add more color and some shading. Cutterbee scissors were used for fussy cutting.

Before adding the image, I inked a stencil design to the background using Tumbled Glass Distress ink. The stencil is part of this Stampers Anonymous set. 

As you can see, I didn't fussy cut the balloon string, instead I stamped the image again on my card front. Then layered the Avery Elle heart frame die cut over and finally added the image and balloon with foam tape. 

The stamps and dies I used can all be found on Amazon (US):

The beautiful large sentiment is from the Penny Black set Happy Wishes. Thought it was a perfect match for this cute girl that looks like she is making a birthday wish. The small happy birthday sentiment is part of a sentiment from my new Colorado Craft stamp set Big Love.

After all was assembled, I decided I wanted to add some spatter to the card, so I covered my image to avoid any spatter on it and flicked some Dusty Concord ink onto the card. Something I would have preferred to think of before the card was finished, but sometimes I don't think of things until the end. 

As mentioned in the post title, I am also sharing the re-make of my "gelli print fail" card. But first I wanted to say a huge thank you for the wonderful tips I received on that post. I really appreciate all your input!

There's not too much of  a change, all I did was cut down the gelli print panel to a smaller size, then I  stamp the birds again on a separate piece of Bristol Vellum, colored with distress inks and then fussy cut. Finally I stamped the sentiment again on white card stock and used a circle die to cut it out. Then adhered to a white card base. No ink smudges on it this time around so it stayed white :)

Even though there isn't a lot of change here (after all I used the same exact card front) I do like this take on the card a lot more. It's just a little bit "cleaner" I suppose and I do tend to make more CAS- ish cards. 

I am entering my Gelli Print card to 

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers - G is for Gel Printing (although I am not so sure it qualifies as being snarky). // Sweet Stampin - Anniversaries

For comparison, below is what my first take looked like and I've talked about it more in this recent post.

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Challenges I'd like to share with:

Gelli Print card:

Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers - G is for Gel Printing // Sweet Stampin - Anniversaries

Birthday Girl Card:

Penny Black Saturday - AG with PB Stamps //  River of Creativity - AG // 

and these Link Parties:

Dare to Share // Sunday Showcase - First Sunday with Ada and Mireille  //  Inspire Me Monday //  Link Up Potpourri //  Random-osity Good, Random, Fun // You're The Star Blog Hop Link Party @Stonecottage Adventures // Anything Goes with Your Hosts @ My Random Musings // Jenerally Informed The Happy Now // Spread the Kindness Linkup @ Shelbee on the Edge //  Thursday Favorite Things // Little Things Thursday // Encouraging Heart and Home @ Slices of Life //