AGE AWARENESS DAY!

It's a theme challenge again at Global Design Project this week and I sure hope you can join in with us.  The number of entries we have been getting each week has been amazing and we appreciate each and everyone!  It sure makes it hard to pick our winners!

So the theme is balloons.  I am only glad the are stamped or punched, as I don't actually like balloons that much.  Long story short - one popped while I was blowing it up when I was at school.  I can still feel the sting!

But I digress.  We have a number of stamp sets in our current catalogues that feature balloons, which I gave serious consideration to before going ahead with this card.  However, I didn't use any in the end because of how colourful my background actually turned out.  I have recently signed up for the Watercolor For Card Makers - Intermediate Techniques Class, so you will probably be seeing a lot of my watercolour experiments, lol.

I love the stark contrast the black gives to this background and any more than one balloon would have just swamped it.  I have used the grid stamp from Timeless Textures to create my grid background by heat embossing clear embossing powder, then adding my colour over top, creating a resist effect.  That is all I can tell you for now, as I will be teaching this card to a group of friends soon and I don't want to spoil the rest of the technique, lol.

Join us at Global Design Project for this fun theme this week.  We would love to see what you create and share with others!  If you like this card, I would love to know!  Leave me a comment so I know you have been to visit :-)

To create this project, I used the following products, available for purchase at my Online Store: Timeless Textures, Age Awareness, Watercolour Paper, Basic Black Card, Whisper White Thick Card, Neutrals Designer Paper Stack, Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Versamark Ink, Melon Mambo Reinker, Daffodil Delight Reinker, Tempting Turquoise Reinker, Dimensionals

If you live in New Zealand, I would love to be your Demonstrator.  When you shop Online with me, please allow Demonstrator Contact, so I can thank you properly when you place your orders.