SplitCoast Stampers June 2015 Virtual Stamp Night Event "You Are My Happy" Challenge JUN15VSNC

I'm so excited to be able to play along the 2 day Virtual Stamp Event going on at SCS this weekend. There are 10 challenges and the ongoing theme is Happy.

Hostess Sue (gregzgurl) is calling for cards to show a special someone how "You Are My Happy." The rule for all the challenges is to complete the card in 1 hour or less - eek! That in itself is stressful enough since I'm a slow poke!

Here's my entry for this JUN15VSNC "You Are My Happy" Challenge:

Thanks to the other day's attempt with heat embossing my Etch-A-Sketch cards, I decided to try heat embossing this flower stamp in order to use watercolor to color. It's a style trend I've seen a lot on the web.

The heat embossing and water coloring was actually quite fast. I think it helped that I made a color swatch of my Canson Water Color set because it made it so much easier to know which colors to use.

Once I watered down the embossed areas, I merely dabbed on the lighter of the green and blue violet colors on first before touching up with the darker versions.  While the water colors were drying, I then adhered the sequins.

Funnily enough, what took most of the time within the hour was
1) Choosing color/shape of sequins
2) Choosing location and number of sequins to adhere!

Whew! 1 down, 9 more challenges to go!

What's more, I was able to tackle another one of my 2015 Let the Year End with Beauty:

16.  Watercolor medium for coloring in flowers/roses. 

The color choices were inspired by this week's current Muse Challenge #121.

I've never been a green person, but this inspiration card featured a lot of green, so I decided to emphasize a fresh green on my card by attaching the SU Gable Green cardstock.  I took a liberal interpretation of their navy and sage green and made my versions of the color more springy for my card's purposes due to the Iris stamp image.

Thanks for visiting!






"You Bring Out the Happy in Me" Card
Paper: Canson 140lb Watercolor Paper; SU Gable Green
Stamps: PSX K-3192 Iris ; MFT All Smiles (Sentiment)
Ink: Canson Angora Water Colors; Stampendous White Opaque EP; SU Brocade Blue; Memento Black 
Embellishments: SU 2013-2015 In Color Sequins
Size: 4.25" x 6.5" rectangular