Happy Wishes

Ever since I was a kid I have loved coloring!  I remember coloring until it got dark out.  In the morning I would be surprised to see the crazy colors I had used thinking they were something different!  And now, great to live in a time when adult coloring books are so popular!  I love rubber stamping because I never run out of images to color!  I have even made "coloring booklets" as crafty gifts.   

 I enjoy coloring just about any image but Angie Blom is one of my favorite artists!  Her images are so full of joy ~ "Sweet 16" is one of my favorites!  

Here I have used water color paints on water color paper.  I love coloring but I'm not great at it!  The medium of watercolor is so easy to use and so forgiving.  Splashing some color around the outside of the image in kind of a halo effect is a favorite technique.  It's beautiful enough to leave the rest of the image uncolored.  Obviously I did not leave these uncolored but instead used Zig  real brush water colors, dropping pools of the darker color where shadows would be.

The decorative edge punched on the back of the card peeks out
when the card is closed, adding interest & spunk!

On the inside I used a balloon stamp that transfers the image silhouette, not the outline.  That way I could overlap the colors an add in the outlines freehand, leaving out the lines for where one balloon disappeared behind another.  

I used intense colors and offset them with black and white washi tape on the front, inside & back.  

Homemade envelopes is one of my favorite things.  They are mostly a necessity for me because I rarely have a conventionally sized card!  Sometimes I use the colorful side of the paper on the inside, sometimes on the outside!  I always make a white label of some sort for the address to go if the envelope is very busy or boldly colored.