Let's dance

Hello crafting friends!

I've been getting more and more interested in the relationship between ink and water and today, I brought my re-inkers out and had a bit of a play. Come and see:

This is my final version, after lots of messy failures experiments! I ended up painting a splodge of water on a card panel, allowing an ink drop to fall onto it and 'bloom', then blotting it with a tissue. I repeated these steps with each colour to make my background.

I added a sentiment from Stampin' Up's Beautiful You, which I thought would work well with the bright colours and is also a great observation for these weird times. I was going to add some enamel dots but I just didn't think it needed anything else.

EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
So happy that this card was a pick at Freshly Made Sketches :)

CHALLENGES
I'm linking up with Freshly Made Sketches, where I was inspired by the inky looking sketch (I turned it upside down because I thought the sentiment looked better on this bit of my inky background.) I'm also joining in with Less is More, where the theme is Scribbles, Drips and/or Splats; Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge where Anything Goes; and Addicted to Stamps and More where it's a Make Your Mark challenge this week.

AND IN OTHER NEWS
This is the innocent face of a golden retriever who was walking nicely along the side of the canal this morning until she saw a black lab on the other side, and who then leapt into the water, swam across to the other side and made hen noises at said lab!!

It turned out to be a dog we used to meet in the park and walk with - he was being walked by his owner's husband who I hadn't met. It was nice to meet him, and we had a chat across the width of the canal, although whether he actually needed a shower from my dog is debatable!

How's your weekend going?

Hugs,