Watercolor Sunflower!

Hey everyone! Happy Monday! It's going to be a great week here for me. I have tons of fun things going on! I'm getting my hair done tomorrow (YAY) and meeting up with friends for a fun event. Wednesday night I'm hostessing a pizza night at the local Round Table (email me or FB message me if you're local and want details). But the most important part of this week is that today is our wedding anniversary! WOOOOOT! It's our fifteen year anniversary (we've been together 23 years this year) and I'm still crazy about that crazy boy of mine. Sometimes aren't you just so proud of yourselves for making it through ups and downs and still staying together? Laughing and having fun and most importantly taking care of each other. Life is hard and being married is hard, too, so I think it's super important to acknowledge the victories and the amazing grace that comes from being in a loving relationship. Cheers to love! I got some beautiful flowers yesterday for our anniversary, and we went out for a very tasty dinner at The Melting Pot. MMMMMM. Anyhooooo, I got kind of off track. I do actually have a card to share today! 

I've been in a Fall mood of course, and also on a watercolor kick. Today's card was made with beautiful dies from Simon Says Stamp. I watercolored the pieces of the radiant sunflower die cuts and assembled them into a cheerful greeting for any occasion. I looooove yellow! How can you not love yellow? Hahaha. Especially the golden buttery yellows of Fall…. 

 

No stamping on this card! Just die cuts and different papers and textures. I tried to make a card without any patterned paper, but it didn't work out! I used two shades of green, two shades of brown, two shades of yellow, and orange watercolors from my Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 set. I have been using this set for about three years now and you can't even tell. I think they might last me forever. The hello die cut was cut out of rich brown cardstock and glued on with a glue pen. 

 

I die cut two flower centers and layered them. The top one is popped up with foam squares. I added a pretty glitter enamel dot also. In this picture you can see the aqua paint splatters. At first I made that part of the card and used brown paint for the splatters. It just didn't look right. I like the tiny pop of cool aqua behind the warm colors. 

 

 

 

 

Here are the colors I used for the card. I like to keep a 'scratch' piece of paper handy to test my color choices before making the final decision on what to use. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next picture is a snippet of my last card posted on the Simon Says Stamp blog on Saturday. I wanted to share that with you and I hope you'll pop over and see the entire thing. More Autumny watercoloring!! CLICK HERE to see it!  Leave a comment there for a chance to win a grab bag prize too! 

 

Here's a photo I made the other day to commemorate our anniversary! I wanted something to post today on Facebook and Instagram. It's our wedding book with a couple of my favorite photos. We got married in a pretty gazebo right by the ocean in beautiful Cape Cod. It was just the two of us, the judge and the photographer and it was amazing! I left my heart on the East Coast with that trip. We went to Boston, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod, New York (Adirondacks), Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire for our honeymoon. Two weeks of leaf peeping and relaxing. Back then, there were no digital cameras! I took 37 rolls of film!! Let's just say that our scrapbook is actually TWO giant scrapbooks! LOL. I get all misty eyed just thinking about it. The reason that I grow blue hydrangeas in our front yard is to remind me of the Cape, and our wedding.

Okay, so that's enough news for today!! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a marvelous week! XOXO

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I used the 36 pan Watercolor set listed in the links. In case you want to choose the individual colors – I listed those also – at the end of the links!