Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge - July

Well, well, well......where did July come from so quickly?!!! We are suddenly half-way thru the year and I still feel like I haven't gotten over Christmas. Looks like I need to start making some more Christmas cards for this year very quickly!!!

With it being the 1st of the month it also means that its time for a new challenge theme at Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge.

As always we have our 'Anything Goes' theme but you also have the optional twist of using 'Blue' on your project. And with blue being my favourite colour, I'm very happy indeed!!

And of course you also have the chance to win a $20 voucher to spend in the Happy Little Stampers  store. How fabulous!!

For my card I knew I definitely wanted to use blue but I also wanted to use two new products as well:

I started off by cutting a panel of water colour CS and heat embossing in white my new Studio Katia 'Your So Ranunculus' stamp. I then used my new Gansai Tambi 'Pearl Colors' watercolour paint. I wish I could have captured the shimmer of this paint, its absolutely amazing!! Once the flowers were dry I die-cut the panel using a Winnie and Walter die from 'Essential: Audrey's Cutaways'.

Since the paint has a silvery shimmer to it, I added a panel of silver CS to the card front and adhered the flowers to it. The sentiment (from the same stamp set) was heat embossed in silver on a strip of watercolour CS and popped up on foam tape. And I added lots of clear sequins from Neat and Tangled to carry on the shine.

I'm going to link this to the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge where their theme is 'Anything Goes'.

And will also link to The Challenge # 88 where I've used two keywords 'Flowers' and 'Watercolour'. 

You have the whole month of July to link your projects to the Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge and pop over to the blog to see what the rest of the Design Team have created to inspire you. Can't wait to see your projects in the Gallery!!

Take care
Shona