Watercolor love

Happy Wednesday!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps Built.  As it is the first challenge of the month, it is a Designer's Choice Challenge and Laurie has challenged us to create an anniversary card.  This was perfect timing as my brother and his wife celebrated their 12th anniversary this weekend.  Here is the card I created:

 I started off by heat embossing my image with white embossing powder on some water color paper.  Then I used watered down gelatos to water color the image using two purples and two greens and a tiny bit of yellow for the bee.   You can see it better in this close up photo:

 After I added the patterned paper, ribbon and tag, it still looked a little plain along the bottom, so I splattered it with some gold shimmer mist and some of the darker gelato I used on the image.  I think it added just the right amount of interest to the image.

 On the inside, I finished it off with this sweet sentiment;

Thanks for stopping by!  Remember, if you need any of the stamps I used today, I have a 10% off your entire order coupon over on my left side bar.  And make sure you check out the House blog to see what the rest of the team did for this challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Hydrangea", "Beautiful Days" and 'love' from the "You Cling Set"
Punches: Fiskars "Upper Crest" border punch

Challenges:
Your Next Stamp #97--sketch

Crafty Sentiments--anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday--stamp it on
heARTful Stamping--anything goes
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #89--anything goes
Ribbon Girl--anything goes
Cards Galore--anything goes
Craft-Dee BowZ--anything goes with handmade bow
A Gem of a Challenge #226--wedding, anniversary, engagement
Cardz TV #63--anything goes
Aud Sentiments #211--bingo ( I used the diagonal: ribbon, flowers, embossing)
4 Crafty Chicks #418--anything goes
Crafty Gals #173--anything goes