Sparkly Watercolor Celebration Card for Virginia's View Challenge #1

Hi everyone and happy Monday :)

Have you seen? My sweet and super talented friend and team mate Virginia Lu started a new challenge blog called "Virginia's View Challenge"! 

Her first inspiration challenge has to do with the super hot "watercolor" trend that you can see all around lately! Don't you love the watercolor effect? What are you waiting for? Just hop on over to Virigina's View Challenge blog and play along :)

To create the background I have used my muc loved (but recently much neglected) Lyra watercolor crayons. I scribbled four colors onto a non-stick mat, then spritzed it with Pssst! Sheer Shimmer Spritz Frost (instead of water) to not only get a watercolor but also a super sparkly and shimmery effect :)

If you don't know the "Sheer Shimmer Spritz" sprays from Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts, you can check out this short introduction video about these awesome sprays HERE

Here is a picture of my scribbles after spritzing it with the Sheer Shimmer Spritz spray and before dabbing my white cardstock onto it (please refer to the grey boxes below this post for detailed step-by-step instructions and a complete list of supplies):

Ohhh... look at the amazing shimmer effect the Shimmer Spritz spray creates... I hope you can properly see it in this closeup?! And I promise you, the sparkly and shimmer effect looks even more beautiful and spectacular IRL :-)

Ok, I have to admit, that I am not sure about all the enamel dots on the balloons. I originally wanted to do something totally different with the balloons (without enamel dots), but since it didn't work like I imagined, I just tried the enamel dots... oh well ;-)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope to see you here on my blog again, soon :)

Sylvia xx

Instructions scribble with green, blue, red-violet and yellow watercolor crayons onto a non-stick craft mat generously spritz with Pssst! Sheer Shimmer Spritz Frost to make the colors move take a piece of white cardstock and dab it onto the spritzed colors, press down lightly and lift off let dry (you can speed up the process by using a heat gun) cut the watercolor panel to 3 1/4" x 4 3/8" size create a top folded 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card base from 4 1/4" x 11" black cardstock attach watercolor panel to front cut small strip of black cardstock and stamp sentiment with Delicata Silvery Shimmer adhere to card front using dimensional foam pads die cut balloons once from vellum and once from white cardstock snip off the strings from the white cardstock die cut and adhere white die cuts behind vellum die cut using a special vellum adhesive embellish balloons with enamel dots mount balloons to card front using dimensional foam pads

Supplies stamps - Paper Smooches: "Birthday Sampler" coloring medium - Lyra watercolor crayons inks - IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko: Delicata Silvery Shimmer, Pssst! Sheer Shimmer Spritz Frost tools - Spellbinders die cutting machine, non-stick craft mat dies - Whimsy Stamps "Balloon Cluster Die" others - white cardstock; American Crafts: black cardstock; My Mind's Eye: enamel dots; Vellum adhesive, dimensional foam adhesive

Challenges Viriginas View Challenge #1 (watercoloring)