All The Feels

I wanted to make a card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches and started looking through my stamps to see if I had any splattery background images.  I decided I could make the several small images from Paper Smooches Positive Strokes Two work for the job.

I used several colors of teal inks on white cardstock to create my background.  And since the theme at the Paper Smooches Challenge is Anything Goes, I used a sentiment I've been wanting to ink-up from Paper Smooches Inhale Exhale.

Given the size of the sentiment, I felt if I stamped it on a strip of paper like the sketch shows, it would cover too much of my splatters, so instead I used my MISTI and Versafine ink to stamp it directly onto the white cardstock creating a single layer design.

I finished with a pair of tiny aqua hearts near to the bottom right corner of the sentiment.  I have certainly been feeling all the feels this weekend … it's like all of my emotions are just right on the surface ready to spill out at any moment.  

And here is an out-take from tonight's card making experience … this is what happens when you make a poor ink color choice for your splatters … your card ends-up looking like it belongs on an episode of Dexter.  Of course it wasn't until I stepped back and looked at the finished product that I realized the error of my ways.  My husband said, "all the feels alright … all the feels of a knife wound" … yeah, not quite what I was going for.