Krafty Chicks challenge - All Occasions

Hello and happy Thursday lovely friends.  I hope you're having a great week.  I'm here today to share my DT card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  We are on week 4 which is always 'All Occasions' i.e. birthday, sympathy, new baby, Valentine's, the world's your oyster lol!

I made this card for a crafty friend who had her birthday recently and was inspired by a technique I saw by Gina K Designs.  Here is my card:

A closer look:

Of course I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 3 3 /4" x 5" and used a circle stencil to mask the area I wanted to ink blend.  I used an orange for my sky and a light green for my grass.  I went over my ink blending with a cloud stencil using the same orange ink but with a slightly heavier hand and a grass stencil using a slightly darker green ink.  I did go over the clouds with a pink ink but I don't think I added enough as you can't really see it.  I removed the stencils and stamped the silhouette image in black ink using my Misti tool.  I also stamped my sentiment below the image and a small butterfly to the upper left side.  I added the panel onto a black card mat with double sided tape and this was also added to my card base with double sided tape.  A few black pearls and my card was complete.  For the inside I cut the same size panels and on the white panel I stamped my sentiment in black ink and added a portion of the silhouette stamp in the lower left corner.  I blended some of the orange ink around it for some added interest.  Again I matted the panels with double sided tape and again adhered it to the card base with double sided tape.  A very calm and elegant card which I think would also be suitable as a sympathy card by changing out the sentiment. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS challenge - sky (I stencilled my sky)

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils (I used a cloud and grass stencil)

As You Like It challenge - What's your fave: pearls or gems and why (I like both but mostly grab for my pearls as they are great for all types of cards

Inkspirational challenge - use stencils (I used a cloud and grass stencil)

Just Us Girls challenge - ATG stencil week (I used a cloud and grass stencil)

Make My Monday challenge - happy birthday

Triple B challenge - must have either birds, blooms or butterflies (I have silhouette blooms and a butterfly)

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'All Occasions' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for January, Helen.  

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - Natural Silhouettes stamp

Gina K Designs - Spring Mountain stamp (for butterfly)

Gina K Designs - Birthday Cheer stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - sweet mango, bubblegum pink, lucky clover, jelly bean green

Gina K Designs - pearl mix - black, gold & silver

MFT - grassy edges stencil

MFT - mini cloud edges stencil

Taylored Expressions - masking circles stencil

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card (for panels and card blank)

Hobbycraft - A4 luxury black card

Versafine - onyx black ink