Girlie Grunge Birthday Card for Leaky Shed Studio

Hi everyone, I'm back to share a girlie grunge birthday card featuring Leaky Shed Studio chipboard. 

I just have express how much I appreciate the quality of Leaky Shed Studio Chipboard. This chipboard comes ready to use. The chipboard is beautiful, thick, and the laser cuts are crisp, going all the way through so no little pieces to painstakingly pick out of the intricate designs. I hope you'll give this wonderful product a try! 

Our daughter, Maria's, favorite color is purple, but she's not a girlie girl, so I had fun including grunged up gears from the Watch Parts collection.

Birthday Card

Tips and Techniques

These Watch Parts are painted black, then dry brushed with metallic berry paint. I also used a small Watch Part in the center of my focal flower.

Here's another view. I mixed plum and gold Glimmer Mist to brush over the flowers to add some shimmer.

This is half of a Flower Corner. I started by brushing the flourish with clear gesso and flowers with white gesso. I then layered on different colors of mist. Mist is a form of water color and will reactivate when rewetted, so to keep the colors clear, I misted with Helmar Clear Kote Matte Varnish between layers.

I colored this sweet Spring Dragonfly with Perfect Pearls, then added Sugar Shimmer Twinkle Dust Glitter to the wings. 

The background was misted in plum then splattered with grey and black. Again, I misted with clear varnish between colors.

LSS Products

Watch Parts

Flower Corner

Spring Dragonfly (3 in package – smallest used)

Other products

Pink Paislee ~ Hope Chest – Documents; Records

Basic Grey ~ Serenade – Chemise

Pebbles ~ Phrase Tags #732639

Petaloo ~ Floral Embellishments – Darjeeling Collection, Eggplant

Petaloo ~ Penny Lane – Ruffled Roses, Plum

Wild Orchid Crafts ~ Cottage Rose 25mm – Mixed Purple/Lilac

Liquitex ~ Gesso – Clear, White

Golden ~ Soft Get, Matte

Clearsnap by Donna Salazar ~ Twinkle Dust Glitter – Sugar Shimmer 

Tattered Angels ~ Glimmer Mist – Sugar Plum Fairy; Almost Black; Graphite

Ranger ~ Perfect Pearls – Pewter; Forever Violet

DecoArt ~ Dazzling Metallics – Berry 

DecoArt ~ Crafter’s Acrylic – Black 

Heidi Swapp ~ Color Shine – Gold

Helmar ~ Crystal Kote – Matte Varnish

 Helmar ~ 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Tim Holtz ~ Distress Tool

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~ Blessings ~