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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Make It Monday and Colour Q

Today I am taking the Make It Monday # 136 Textured Stamping and Colour Q # 211 and letting them meet!  Ashley has a video on Capture the Moment demonstrating how she got some texture on her stamping. 
 I used the balloons from Birthday Bash and the sentiment from Think Big Favorites # 12.
I stamped the balloons with raspberry fizz, lemonade ice, and orange zest and then swiped the pad across the inked image before stamping.  I did stamp some second generation stamping for some of the balloons.

This is a fun technique to get some texture on your solid images.
We are having a little Indian Summer here in Oregon...wow nearly 70 degrees today.
Heart Hugs Friends,
Colleen


18 comments:

LeAnne said...

Lovely fun way to use those colors---they are certainly good ones for balloons! A happy card! Thanks for playing with our colors this week!

Tracey McNeely said...

Fun balloons Colleen, the swiping creates a fun effect. Thank you so much for joining us this week at the colourQ!

Jacquie Southas said...

This is fabulous - love the balloons, love the color!

Sylvia said...

What a fabulous balloon birthday card, Colleen, love the swiping as well, great color arrangement! Thanks for sharing your card with us at the colourQ.

Helene said...

I love the colors !

Brenda in IN said...

I love that swiping technique. Really puts some depth to your balloons. I laughed out loud when I saw that table! Wish we had your weather. Ours is cold and rainy today and we are out in it.

Wendy said...

Fun way to the colors with the balloon stamp and that swiping technique.

Nancy Penir said...

Wow, Colleen, balloons are the perfect image for this technique! So colorful too!

Bobby said...

The balloons were perfect for this technique. It makes them more three dimensional.

Marjan said...

That technique looks fabulous on your beautiful and festive card!

Carolanne said...

This looks great! Perfect stamp to do this technique!

Joyce said...

This is so fun and perfect. It totally caught my eye from the MIM gallery. Great idea to use the balloons for this technique.

Linda said...

Great card Col. Perfect for the swiping technique.

Darnell said...

Combining the texture technique with the ColourQ is inspired, Colleen! Your balloons look amazing!! Hugs, Darnell

Maria said...

Wonderful technique for texture on those pretty colorful balloons! Such a pretty birthday card!

Kim Heggins said...

Wow...this is such a festive card...love all those balloons, so fun.

Claire said...

What a great technique - will definitely have to try that one. Love your fun card Colleen...you've picked the perfect stamp to go with those colours. Thanks for playing along at Colour Q this week!

Kristii said...

Absolutely fabulous!! Love the texture on the balloons and the colors are so happy and fun!