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Hey friends!!  Wow... gorgeous weather, again, here in the Pacific Northwest!!  Today is supposed to be in the 80s!!  Popping in with a quick post.  I always try to make something for the Essentials by Ellen challenges and the door will soon be closing on the current pin-sights challenge so had I to get something made.  I have been playing around with my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and I think I'm finally getting the hang of them... YAY!  After stamping the balloon image from Up the Happy in watermark ink three separate times I applied white embossing powder and heat set them.  Each balloon was watercolored using colors from the palette provided in the challenge and then die cut once dry.  I watercolored a panel using another color from the palette and then added some gold.  Let it dry and die cut it with an MFT inside and out stitched rectangle die.  I recently got a mini MISTI and I must say it is a pretty nifty tool.  I was able to get a nice stamping of the sentiment using the MISTI.  The strings were stamped and then I added the balloons.  A little bow from the Merry & Bright set was added to complete the scene.  Going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.  I'm also going to add this to the new Creative with Stamps challenge of CAS... I think this is pretty clean and simple.

Thanks for stopping by today...


Supplies:  Cardstock: white, Ranger watercolor paper; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen Up the Happy and Merry & Bright; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen:  Up the Happy, MFT Inside and Out Stitched Rectangles;  Ink:  VersaMark and VersaFine Onyx Black; Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors