CASology 5th Anniversary Blog Hop!!!

Hello everyone!!  I am so excited to be a part of CASology's 5th anniversary celebration!!   I can't believe that CASology has been offering up amazing challenges for 5 years!!  But time flies when you are having fun, right???   I will never forget being contacted by Melissa early in 2012 about being part of the design team she was putting together for a new challenge blog that was going to be all about clean and simple.  Since I love clean and simple it didn't take me long to email Melissa back to say yes to her offer and for the first year and a half of the challenge I was on the design team.  It was one of the best
times of my crafting life!    So when Melissa contacted me about being a part of the celebration I had to say yes, again!!  All the fun starts on the CASology blog.  If you came from CASology design team member Joyce's blog then you are on the right track.  If not head over to the CASology blog for a list of all the hop participants.   The cue word for this challenge is appropriately balloon.    For my card I used the super fun Essentials by Ellen Up the Happy stamp set along with the matching dies.  I heat embossed red, aqua and pink cardstock with white embossing powder them and then die cut the balloons with the matching die.  The same thing was done for the clouds as well.  I then adhered the balloons and the clouds and added the balloon strings and the sentiment.

Now... since this is a celebration there will be lots of fun and prizes!!  Here are all the details:

To be eligible for the CASology prize, participants must comment on all stops included on the hop + link up a BALLOON themed card to the gallery.  Winner will be selected randomly using random.org.

Winners will be announced on Tuesday, August 1.

And here is what you can win!!

CASology - $50 gift certificate to the online craft store of winner's choice

Altenew - $30 gift certificate to the online store

Sprinkle Berry - $30 gift certificate to online store

Avery Elle - $20 gift certificate to the online store

Cindy B Designs - $25 gift certificate to online craft store of winner's choice

Concord & 9th - $25 gift certificate to the online store

DeNami Designs - $20 gift certificate to the online store

Lawn Fawn - $35 gift certificate to the online store

Neat & Tangled - $25 gift certificate to the online store

Poppystamps - $20 gift certificate to the online store

Precious Remembrance Shop - stamp set of winner's choice

7 Kids College Fund - $20 store credit

STAMPlorations - $15 gift certificate to the online store

Sunny Studio - Color Me Happy set + matching Color Word Die

The Ton - $20 gift certificate (for The Ton brand stamps, dies, inks & gilding products)

Uniko Studio - an in stock clear stamp set of winner's choice

Waffle Flower - $25 gift certificate to the online store

Your Next Stamp - $20 gift certificate to the online store

How amazingly awesome is that???  Pretty darn awesome in my book!!  Your next stop on the hop is the blog of STAMPlorations one of the awesome sponsors of the CASology celebration!!

The color scheme for my card comes from the current Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge so I will be linking my card up there, as well.  When I saw the pin-sights challenge inspiration board I knew it would be perfect to use to create my card for CASology... just look at those fun colors and images!  They just say balloons to me!

Have a wonderful day and happy hopping!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Sahara Sand, pink, red and aqua; PTI white; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen and A Jillian Vance Design; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink, VersaFine Onyx Black; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts white

whole lot of lovely...

Hey... happy day before 4th of July!!  Got a card made for the current Essentials by Ellen pin-sights challenge.  The inspiration photos are gorgeous, but given that it is now summer and there is stuff to do I wasn't certain I would get anything made.  Thankfully I was able to get some time over the weekend to get something make.  I had an idea as to what I wanted to make and the end result is close to what I was thinking.   As I spied some gold accents in the photos I decided to emboss the Mondo Hydrangea in gold and then watercolor it using dark pink and orange.   Once everything was dry I added in a really light wash of blue.  Because I liked the entire panel I decided not to trim it down, but adhered the entire piece to my card base.  I stamped the sentiment from the EE Lovely stamp set on vellum and heat set in gold.  The sentiment was then die cut with an MFT Fishtail Flag Stax die.  I die cut a couple more flags from vellum, layered them together and adhered to the panel.  Finished with some variegated hemp twine and little dots of Nuvo Jewel Drops in Limoncello.  Super please with how this turned out!  Since there is still time I'm adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Have a wonderful day!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Crumb Cake, Ranger watercolor paper; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder:  Ranger Gold; Watercolor medium:  Kuretake Gansai Tambi and ZIG clean color; Variegated hemp twine; Nuvo Jewel Drops

two cards to share...

Hello!!!  Got a couple of cards to share today.  First up is a card for the current Essentials by Ellen pin-sights challenge.  I pulled out Mondo Peonies and embossed the largest flower on watercolor paper using platinum embossing powder.   I checked the color palette for the pin-sights challenge and pulled out the light purple color for my flower.  I used a light purple ZIG and did some simple watercoloring.  Once the flower was mostly dry I trimmed it out with my scissors.  Since the flower wasn't completely dry when it was trimmed out as it finished drying it curled up a bit which looks really pretty in real life.   The layout is based on the sketch at Fab Friday.   I partially embossed the top portion of my white cardstock piece before layering on a strip of light blue vellum and a strip of gold glitter cardstock.  The flower was then layered on top to finish.  I thought about a sentiment but decided to put one on the inside at a later date and just let the flower be the star of the show.  I think I will also post this to the current Time Out challenge.

The second card is for the current MFT sketch challenge, as well as the current MFT color challenge.  I will admit to having a bit of trouble figuring out how to use the colors in the MFT palette, but finally came up with this card.  I pulled out the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set and stamped the butterflies using the Orange Fizz and Persimmon colors.   The frame was die cut from Grout Gray cardstock using my Spellbinders square dies.   The top panel was watercolored using a two blue ZIGs and then trimmed down with a border die once the panel was dry.   I attached the panel with some removable adhesive so I could get the sentiment from the You Give Me Butterflies stamp set in the right spot and stamped on the card base.  I then attached the panel, the frame and the butterflies.  I finished things off with some Nuvo Jewel Drops in Sea Breeze.

Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, SSS fog; MFT grout gray, Ranger watercolor, light blue vellum, MFT gold glitter; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen, My Favorite Things; Dies:  Spellbinders, A Jillian Vance Design; Nuvo Jewel Drops; Inks:  MFT Orange Fizz, PTI Terra Cotta Tile; VersaFine Smoky Gray; Watercolor medium:  ZIGs

bursting with joy...

Hello!!  The weekend is upon us and I have a card to share for a couple of challenges:  Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights, Freshly Made Sketches and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes. The pin-sights mood board is full of lovely images in soft, muted colors and I tried to capture several of those colors.  I used three different Essentials by Ellen stamp sets:  Mondo Peony, Up the Happy and Lovely.  I stamped the smallest peony from Mondo Peony with watermark ink on watercolor paper and then embossed with white embossing powder.  The flower was then colored with a ZIG clean color marker call Pink Flamingo.  Once it was mostly dry I trimmed it out by hand.  A background was watercolored using ZIGs in light green and yellow green.  There isn't any silver in the images, but I decided to sparkle things up a bit by using silver glitter cardstock for the strip portion of the FMS sketch.  The butterflies were stamp with watermark ink on watercolor paper and then colored with ZIGs in two shades of blue (blue and Persian blue).  Once dry they were die cut.  I trimmed down the main panel and then layered all of the images.  For some reason I was a bit heavy handed with the ink when I stamped the sentiment, but I wasn't going to start over!! I finished off the card by adding some drops of Nuvo Jewel Drops in Sea Breeze.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, Ranger watercolor, silver glitter cardstock; Stamps and dies:  Essentials by Ellen; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink and VersaFine Smoky Gray; Watercolor medium:  ZIGs; Nuvo Jewel Drops

super lucky...

Hello!!  Have a card to share and it doesn't have a bunny on it, lol!!  This time it has balloons on it!  I'm playing along with the current Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge and the current CAS(E) this Sketch.  The pin-sights mood board is full of lovely images done in shades of green with touches of gold.  Initially I was going to use my EE Mondo Hydrangea, but decided to switch to the super fun EE set Up the Happy.  I stamped the balloon three times as you see and then created a mask of the balloon so I could stamp the clouds and the balloon strings.  I ended up needing a mask for the small cloud, as well, so I wouldn't have a balloon string running through it!  I then colored the balloons in three shades of green ZIGs per the mood board.  Once the balloons were dry I added a little wash of gold to each one using the brush gold paint from the Gansai Tambi watercolor set.  You can see just a bit of it if you look hard or if you click on the photo to make it bigger.  The clouds were given a light wash of gray and then I used the light blue from my Gansai Tambi set mixed with water to add a light wash of blue.   To bring in a bit more gold I stamped the sentiment on vellum with watermark ink and heat set with gold embossing powder.  The sentiment was die cut with a MFT fishtail flag stax die.  I used rolled up glue dot that I placed behind the words to attach the banner to the panel.   I love the way using vellum allows you to still see what is behind the sentiment.

Wishing you a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Green, Ranger watercolor paper, vellum; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  My Favorite Things; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Clean Color markers, Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors; Inks:  VersaFine Smoky Gray, VersaMark watermark ink

thinking of you...

Hello!!!  Hope your week is going well.  Have a card to share for the current Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge.  I'm also going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.  I used the beautiful EE Mondo Hydrangea stamp set.  Absolutely love that set!!  Trying to find an aqua that was close to the aqua in the inspiration board was a bit of a challenge, but finally hit on a pretty similar color in my set of Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors.  The flower was stamped with VersaFine Smoky Gray and then colored with the aqua.  Yellow was added to the center of the flowers and the stem was colored with a dark brown.  I trimmed down the panel once it was try and adhered it to a kraft cardstock card base.  The sentiment was stamped on vellum with VersaMark and embossed with white embossing powder.  I trimmed down the vellum and then adhered the strip by rolling up glue dots and placing them behind the lettering to hide them.  A bit of dark brown twine was tied in a bow and adhered to finish things off.   I love the way the vellum allows the flowers to peek through.  Embossing on vellum is tricky, but I have found that using a nice thick vellum like PTI's vellum makes it a lot easier! 

Wishing you a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  kraft, Ranger watercolor, PTI vellum; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Inks:  VersaFine and VersaMark; Watercolor medium:  Kuretake Gansai Tambi; brown twine

happy birthday...

Hello!!  Had sometime today for crafting and got a couple of cards made so I'm sharing one of them.  This card is for the current Freshly Made Sketch and the Essentials by Ellen pin-sights challenge.  I will also be adding it to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.  I pulled out my EE Up the Happy stamps and dies to create my card.   I pulled different colors from the inspiration photo and did a little bit of watercoloring with the balloon and clouds.   Once they were dry I die cut them with the matching die and then got to work putting together the layout.  I made a minor change to the sketch by having the strip underneath the circle instead of on top because it didn't look right with the clouds.  The sentiment is actually from the EE set Lovely.  Before adhering the balloon I added a little bit of string to the back.  Still feeling a bit rusty after having not made anything for over a week, but I really like how this card turned out!  ETA:  adding this to the current Less is More challenge to use a balloon on your card.

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft, white, Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  VersaFine Smoky Gray and Onyx Black; ZIG clean color markers; white twine;

sending winter cheer...

Hello!!!  Well... Christmas is just a couple of days away and my little guy is getting more and more excited!!  He cannot wait for Sunday!!  Like a lot of people I haven't been doing much crafting, but I am in need of a card that isn't a Christmas one to send to some so I used the current Freshly Made Sketches as well as the current Essentials by Ellen pin-sights challenge for my card.  I recently picked up a few more Essentials by Ellen goodies thanks to Ellen's 40% sale that happened last weekend.  One of the items was the Geo Tree die set.  I used it to create a shaker element on my card.  I'm pretty shaker challenge, but I bought these thin foam adhesive strips from Stampin Up! awhile ago and they have been very, very helpful!!  I die cut the tree from some red patterned paper and then built my shaker element.  I filled up the shaker portion with some sparkly clear sequins, red sequins and little white and silver seed beads.  It looks really pretty in real life.  A strip of polka dot paper was adhered to my card base and then I adhered my shaker element.  I finished off with a little strip of paper stamped with the sentiment (from AJVD).   As you can see the FMS layout is a square one and I had planned on making my card square, but ended up using the usual A2 card layout!  I'm going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of make it sparkle since there is lots of sparkle in my shaker element!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  kraft; Patterned paper:  Teresa Collins; Stamps:  AJVD; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen; Sequins:  AJVD (flat red); Shaker mix:  Hero Arts; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black; Clear acetate 

pinecone birthday...

Hello!!  Stopping with a little birthday card I made for the current Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge, as well as Freshly Made Sketches.  I just squeeking in for FMS... the challenge closes in just a few hours.  I used the Essentials by Ellen Poinsettia and Pine dies and a sentiment from the EE Lovely stamp set.  Since Christmas is almost here and I don't need any more Christmas cards I decided to make a winter birthday card.  When I looked at the Pin-Sights inspiration board my eye was drawn to the wreath in the upper corner and so that is where I got my inspiration.  I die cut the pine branch twine and then layered that on my white cardstock piece that I had stamped with the sentiment.  To bring in more red I added a strip of red cardstock at the bottom and some the red die cut berries.  The pinecone was actually die cut three times because the cardstock I was using was rather thin and then adhered together using spray adhesive.  After adhering the panel to my card base I added the berries, the pinecone and the red twine bow to finish things off.  Even though I added the bow I think this would work perfectly for a guy.

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, white, SU! red and dark green, Hero Arts kraft; Stamps and dies:  Essentials by Ellen; Ink:  VersaFine; red twine

happy birthday hydrangea...

Hello!! Popping in with a quick post today.  The current Essentials with Ellen Pin-Sights challenge is closing soon and I finally got my card made and ready to go!  Took me awhile to figure out what I was going to do, but I finally settled on using the Mondo Hydrangea and Lovely stamp sets.  This month's pin-sights mood board is full of fall loveliness and I decided to focus on the pumpkins and gourds in the photo.  I colored the hydrangea using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors starting with light brown (which actually looks yellow to me!) and then adding in some olive green.  I was trying to get the look that hydrangeas take on when they are done blooming and the flowers are starting to fade.  The leaf was colored with the olive green and then I added in some red.  Once the leaf was dry I die cut it with the matching die.  The stem was colored with a dark brown.  Once the main panel was dry I trimmed it down and stamped the sentiment. I used my mini MISTI to stamp the sentiment multiple times to get a nice dark impression.  A small slit was made in the stem and the leaf was inserted.  I finished things off with a little twine bow and added some Nuvo Glitter Drops in White Blizzard.  This is my first time using them and while you can't really see then in the photo I really like how they look.

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies: Cardstock:  PTI kraft, Ranger watercolor; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black; Watercolor medium:  Kuretake Gansai Tambi; Nuvo Glitter Drops

bursting with joy...

Hello!!!  Well... the week is winding down and we have had a really wet one here in the Pacific Northwest!!  But I'm okay with that... we need the rain!!  I'm popping in with a card that I made for the current Essentials by Ellen pin-sights challenge.  I will also be posting it to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes and to Word Art Wednesday which is also anything goes.   The inspiration board for the EE challenge is gorgeous... full of all kinds of fall loveliness.  I decided to focus on the flower arrangements in the center of the board.  I pulled out my Mondo Peony stamp set and did some watercoloring with my ZIGs. I stamped the flower and leaves on watercolor cardstock using watermark ink, applied white embossing powder and then heat set.   I used an orange for the flower and a dark green for the leaves.  Some yellow was scribbled on to a piece of watercolor cardstock and then blended out with clean water.  Once the flower and leaves were dry I trimmed them out since I don't own the matching dies (yet!).  I arranged the pieces on the dry panel so I could figure out where to stamp the sentiment (from the EE set Lovely).  I trimmed the panel down, stamped the sentiment using Onyx Black ink and then adhered the flower the leaves.  Don't know if peonies come in orange, but that is the great thing about card making... you can make flowers any color you want!!

Hope you have a wonderful day...
Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, Ranger watercolor cardstock; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black; Watercolor medium:  ZIG clean color markers; VersaMark watermark ink; Filigree white embossing powder

flower hugs...

Hello!!  Popping in with my card for the current Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge, as well as the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  Last week Ellen Hutson had a sale on all stamps on the website so I took advantage of the sale and purchased the Essentials by Ellen Mondo Peony.  I don't live too far from where Ellen Hutson is located and since they give you the option of picking up locally I decided that I would use that option.  So Monday morning I head up north to Issaquah, Washington and saw the place where everything happens at Ellen Hutson!  And the other day I got the chance to use one of those gorgeous peony images from Mondo Peony!  I stamped it in VersaFine Smoky Gray and then colored it with a light blue ZIG clean color marker.  I added a shadow around the bottom of the flower using ZIG markers in two shades of gray.  Once the image was completely dry I trimmed it down and adhered it to my card base.  The sentiment (from the Essentials by Ellen Lovely stamp set) was stamped on a strip of white cardstock and then some silver glitter cardstock was added.   I added a few loops of silver thread to the panel and adhered it down with the sentiment strip.  Simple, but I love how it turned out! 

Hope you have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, Ranger watercolor, white, silver glitter; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Coates & Clark silver thread; ZIG clean color markers

a couple of cards to share...

Hello!!  After our vacation I'm still trying to get back into the mood to make cards.  I finally decided that today was the day I was going to get a few made and hopefully get my mojo back.  Kept both cards super simple to make it easier on myself!   First up is a card for the current Color Throwdown challenge, as well as the current Sketch for You to Try challenge.   Initially I was going to use a different Reverse Confetti set for my card, but then decided that I wanted to use the fun RC Globe Confetti Cut and so I used the RC set My World which is a companion to the die.  Took forever to find the right combination of papers.  At first I was going to use cardstock, but did really like how things were looking so switched over to patterned paper.  Once I got that all worked out it was just a matter of putting everything together and figuring out where to put the sentiment.  I didn't like most of my options for the sentiment and then I realized that it would fit nicely inside the actual globe and so that is what I went with.  I like how it turned out!  

 

The next card is for the current CAS(E) this Sketch, as well as the current Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge.  The pin-sights mood board is gorgeous and so I pulled out a few of the colors and the floral images as my starting point.  I started by watercoloring three of the single hydrangea flowers from the Mondo Hydrangea set using a dark pink ZIG clean color marker and clear water. I wanted to have the concentration of color in the center of the flower. I added some yellow to the centers, s well as some Diamond Stickles.  After I got all three done I let them dry and then die cut them with the matching die.   I die cut a piece of what color cardstock and then cut it on the diagonal per the sketch.  Water was brushed on the piece and then two colors of green ZIG clean color markers were brushed on and then blended out with some more clean water.  Once I finished I let that dry I stamped the sentiment from the Up the Happy stamp set using my mini MISTI so I could get a really nice crisp impression.   The panel was adhered to a pink cardstock base, the flowers adhered and then a few sequins in the same color palette was adhered.  Again, super simple, but I really love how it turned out. 

Thanks for stopping by today... love to hear your thoughts!


Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, kraft, pink, watercolor cardstock; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti and Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  Reverse Confetti, Essentials by Ellen, A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  VersaFine Onyx Black; Patterned Paper:  My Mind's Eye and Reverse Confetti; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh; Watercolor Medium:  ZIG clean color markers

super lucky...

Hey friends!!  Stopping in with a card that I put together yesterday evening for a few challenges:  CAS(E) this Sketch, Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sights challenge, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (anything goes) and Time Out (home sweet home).  I haven't played along with a Time Out challenge in quite sometime, but when I took another look at the inspiration photo I realized that my card would fit with their challenge (the red throw and blue end tables).   The EE Pin-Sights challenge is full of lot of fun images in red and blue.  I took my inspiration from the blue honeycomb decorations, as well as the color red and created a little cluster of red balloons.  For the background of my panel I scribbled on some blue using a ZIG Prussian Blue clean color marker on watercolor cardstock and then moved the color around with a wet paint brush.  Once that was dry I added the clouds from the EE set Up the Happy in a darker blue.  The balloon (also from Up the Happy) was stamped three times using VersaFine Vintage Sepia on watercolor paper and then colored with a ZIG Carmine Red clean color marker and clean water.  Once the balloons were dry I die cut them and added some Diamond Stickles for a bit a glitter (inspired by the roll of red glitter tape).  Some thin white hemp twine was secured to the back of the balloons and once they were arranged and adhered I tied the strings together.  The sentiment (from Up the Happy) was stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black. 

Thanks for stopping by today... would love to hear your thoughts!


Supplies:  Cardstock:  Ranger watercolor, SSS fog; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen Up the Happy; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen Up the Happy; Inks:  VersaFine; Watercolors:  ZIG clean color markers; Ranger Diamond Stickles

and... another two cards!!

Hey friends!!   Popping in with a couple more cards that I managed to make today.  Actually got both of them mostly done this morning and then took off to spend the afternoon at the Billy Frank Jr./Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.  Boy was that a long walk out to the end of the boardwalk that spans a good portion of the delta!   But that walk was worth it as it is so pretty down there!   Anywhoo... on to my cards!  First up is a card that I made for the current Ellen Hutson Pin-Sights challenge, as well as the current CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.  I used three different Essentials by Ellen stamp sets for create my card:  Mondo Hydrangea, Mondo Poinsettia and Bokeh Dots.  For the Pin-Sights challenge I pulled some of the colors from the inspiration photo to create my card. A small leaf from Mondo Poinsettia was stamped twice on watercolor paper using VersaFine Vintage Sepia.  The same was done for the single hydrangea images from the Mondo Hydrangea set.  Once stamped I colored them with Zig Clean Color markers and then die cut them with the matching dies.  The largest circle image from Bokeh Dots was stamped in kraft ink on watercolor paper, some light brown Clean Color marker was brushed on and then blended out with water.   A bit of gold shimmer was added by stamping the same image in Delicata Golden Glitz.  The sentiment was stamped and then everything was adhered.  Finished with some light pink, light blue and gold 4mm sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

The second card is for the current PTI Make it Monday challenge.  I often think I will play along with the each week's MIM, but most of the time it never happens.  I was really intrigued by the technique that Ashley featured I decided I wanted to give it a try.  Like my good friend, Greta, it took three tries to come up with one that I liked.  I'm not super happy with it as the yellow re-inker I have is Stampin Up's So Saffron and so the yellow is a bit too much brown in it... not the bright sunny yellow I was thinking of for the rays.  I used one of the stencils from the Sunshine and Rainbow mini Make it Market kit.  I did not want the rays to cover the entire card front so the molding paste was only spread to a certain point.  Coloring everything was a bit of a trick, but it was fun giving it a try.  Once the molding paste had dried I glued on the die cut sunshine and the two little banners that I stamped with "wishing you" and "today".   I'm also going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white and light grey; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen and PaperTrey Ink; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen, PaperTrey Ink and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  SU! So Saffron and Crumb Cake, VersaFine Vintage Sepia and Onyx Black; Pretty Pink Posh sequins; Golden molding paste