Happy Birthday Goose for Chalk Ah lot

Today is a new challenge over at Chalk-Ah-Lot and I have a fun masculine birthday card that I made for my brothers birthday next Friday. Now let's see if I get it out to him on time. I'm famous for being a card maker and either not sending cards on special occasions or being late. Hopefully I can do better at this in 2014.

The Canadian Goose stamp, powdered chalk and paint are by Stamp N Plus.The black cardstock is by Recollections and DCWV and the white cs is by Neenah. The watercolor paper is by Strathmore. The woodgrain embossing folder is by Darice on a light gray cs. The banner die cut is by Stampin Up with a American Crafts birthday sticker and the circle die cut is by Spellbinders. 

I used chalk twice on my card. The first spot is on the strip of watercolor paper where I mixed Foggy powdered chalk with water and used the medium with bubble wrap to create the background. The second time I used chalk was on the main image, see below.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

I usually use the powdered chalk mixed with paint to paint in my images. It's fun to mix the powdered chalk with paint but I always seem to have left overs and hate to waste it. Therefore when I'm finished with a color I take the remains and paint it onto white cardstock like you see below. Then I simply stamp over the powdered chalk with my Hero Arts black ink and have a fun image to add to my next card. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Challenges:

http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/- Use chalk
http://acreativeromance.blogspot.co.uk/- Something new {goose stamp}
http://craftyhandsdevon.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes
http://fairytale-challengeblog.blogspot.com/-Recycling {Bubble wrap}
http://jwscrapshack.blogspot.ca/- Anything goes
http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.com/ Anything goes
http://thesweetpeastampers.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes
http://wagsnwhiskersrubberstamps.blogspot.com/Anything goes
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes
http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.com/ Celebrations
http://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.com/ Anything goes
http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Something new {Goose Stamp}
http://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/ Let's Celebrate
http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com/ Time to celebrate
http://sugarcreekhollow.blogspot.com/ Something new {goose stamp}
http://www.totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/ Manly