March is such a busy month in our family, with birthdays and anniversaries so I thought I'd better get started. Bitty Birthday is one of the FREE Sale-a-bration stamps that you can get so I combined it with our party Girl, Tote-ally Tess for a fun birthday card.
Aren't those balloons perfect for Tess. I stamped the balloons from Bitty Birthday twice with Black Staz-on onto watercolor paper and colored them in with my Aquapainter and Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo and Crushed Curry markers. If you have never tried this method of watercoloring it is great, color a bit of the image with your marker and then use your Aquapainter to move the color. Then I cut the balloons out and attached Silver Elastic cording to the backs with tape as the cording is so slippery and then all the strings are attached together with a simple double knot of the cording. Tess is stamped onto Very Vanilla and colored in with markers and then using my Color Spritzer I used the same three markers and added splatter to the background as well as on the Happy Birthday so that they just weren't so stark. The Pretty in Pink card base is 3 x 6 and a Melon Mambo scalloped strip is highlighted with simple White Gel pen dots and then the main image is attached, and then the balloons are attached with dimensionals and the strings attached to her hand with a mini glue dot.
Happy Stamping,
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