hey, friend...

 Hey there!  Popping in with a very simple card for several challenges:  Freshly Made Sketches, Just Us Girls and Inkspirational.   Let's have a look at what I made.

When I started making this card I was only going to post it to Freshly Made Sketches, Just Us Girls and the Simon Says Stamp February Instagram challenge.  The SSS IG challenge is to use watercolors this month so I decided to do so simple watercoloring on a die cut.  The die I used is from Simon Says Stamp and I have had it for a long time.  I don't even know what it is called, but I immediately thought of it when I saw the FMS sketch.  I die cut the image from watercolor cardstock and then chose two colors from my Jane Davenport watercolors set to color up the die cut.  I went with blue/green color called Mermaid and a dark blue called Indigo.   

After I had finished up watercoloring the image I left it to dry and decide to check out a few additional challenges to see if there was another one I could enter.  I was delighted to find that I could also add this to the current Inkspirational challenge.  They are sharing a pretty mood board this week.  So, I'm using some of the colors in the mood board, as well as woodgrain.  The challenge at JUGs is to use the word friend, so I went with the sentiment "Hey, Friend Happy Birthday.    I put all the elements together and then finished with some tiny gems in a blue-green color. 

Well, that's it for me.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!