Bold Blossoms Birthday - (CTD383)

Hello there!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge #383.  Our hostess for this week is Broni who chose our cheerful color palette and inspiration photo. 

For my card, I used a piece of watercolor paper and stamped my sentiment in black palette ink, then using a circle die I lightly traced a circle about the size of my die cut wreath so I would know where to watercolor in some mustard seed distress ink.  Once my watercoloring was mostly dry, I added some splatters of marmalade distress ink for a bit more color.  One of the things you can't see from the pictures of my card today is that the watercolored yellow actually has a gold shimmer to it when the light hits it.  This happened by accident because right before I made this card, I was working with some Martha Stewart gold metallic paint and had cleaned my brushes in my water cup.  So when I did my watercoloring for this card the metallic paint mixed with the yellow, it's a pretty touch and I will try this again for sure.  While my watercoloring was drying, I die cut and stamped my flowers, leaves, bird and wreath adding Copic marker detail to the wreath and flowers.  I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Bold Blossoms, Winter Woods, Graceful Greetings and the wreath die.  Once everything was dry, I arranged and adhered everything to my card front, popping the largest flower with foam tape and added three sequins. For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Leslie Miller - March Guest Designer

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