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Congrats to Jeanne, the newest Featured Stamper (FS651) on Splitcoast! Jeanne does a lot of watercolor, so I dug thru my watercolor backgrounds for my card. I was inspired by THIS card because I like the hot air balloon theme. So I kept that but I used different images, different colors & made mine a birthday card.

I had just enough of a left over watercolor bg in the pinks/purples to stamp & fussy cut my hot air balloons. I added just a little white pencil on the zigzag lines. The green/yellow bg was one of those that didn’t really work when I made it. So I tried a technique (from one of Lydia’s Challenge last year) where you take a fine line pen & outline all of the watercolor sections. She called it Topographic Watercolor. I was surprised how much it improved the look of it & how I liked it behind the balloons. You just never know when a “fail” will work out in the future. 

Here’s the inside.

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4 in 1 In the Sky 952D	Hot Air Balloon –583F	Another Year Flies –489F	Sunny Day Birthday Greeting 592G	Memento Inks
Watercolor pan set	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Water Color Paper	RN Square Stitch dies 5005D	Kaliedacolor ink pads

Such an interesting Pinterest Board we have for the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge. After gazing at all of the needle minders, I picked THIS one for my inspiration. I liked the spooky purple atmosphere it has. 

It also doesn’t hurt that this greeting cracks me up. Maybe I’ll send it to my sister, lol. I stamped & colored this big ol’ spooky house then masked it to sponge in the cloudy purple sky. I added a little darker color around the edges then some stickles to the moon, water & ground in front of the house.

Here are the Copics I used.

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RN Haunted House 300 SO	RN House Fell 475-05	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Nested Banner Stitch dies 5151D	RN Clouds Stencil 4011
Copic Sketch Markers	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	Distress Inks	Stickles

For the Splitcoast Color Challenge (CC749), I made this card using the sweet Over the Moon set from Rubbernecker Stamps. Since the colors are peacock, Bermuda bay & silver w/ a dessert option of sparkle. I thought those colors would work well w/ this cute bunny sitting in the crescent moon. 

After the bunny & moon were colored & die cut w/ matching dies. I silver embossed some stars here & there & also the greeting. The bg behind the bunny is an acrylic shimmer paint bg where I just swiped the paint across w/ an old credit card & sprinkled glitter onto it before it dried. I added a few more silver embossed stars to it. I used a new Stars Stencil for the solid silver stars & embossed them, as well.

Here are the Copics I used.

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Supplies:

 

RN Over the Moon set 3206	RN Over the Moon dies set 3206D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D	RN Circle Stitch Frames dies 5120D
RN Stars Stencil 4006	Staples 110# White Card Stock	Memento Inks	Ultimate Metallic Ink	RN Silver Dollar embossing powder
Acrylic Paint	Glitter	The Paper Cut Layering Swatches