I used the Stampin’ Up! Sitting Here stamp set from the upcoming 2016-17 Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog to create my card for the Happy Stampers blog hop.  We’ve got a color challenge this week and this is what I made for it.

Here are the colors that we’re using this week:

I started by stamping the swing, bird, sentiment and flowerpot images from the Sitting Here photopolymer stamp set (available June 1) in Basic Gray Archival Ink on a panel of watercolor paper.

I used my Aqua Painter along with Sahara Sand, Mint Macaron and Crushed Curry inks to paint the stamped images.  Then I stamped the image of the swing shadow from the Sitting Here stamp set in Sahara Sand ink under the swing on the watercolor panel.

I stamped the pillow images from the Sitting Here stamp set in Basic Gray Archival ink on a separate panel of watercolor paper and I watercolored them with Crushed Curry and Mint Macaron inks.  Once everything had dried, I snipped the rectangular pillow out and punched the round pillow with the 3/4″ Circle Punch and I adhered them both to the watercolor panel with Glue Dots.

I brushed the edges of the watercolor panel with Sahara Sand ink and a Clarity Stenciling Brush, then adhered the panel to a panel of Basic Gray card stock with Fast Fuse Adhesive and to a Mint Macaron card base with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  I added a single It’s My Party Enamel Dot (retiring) next to the sentiment to finish the card front.

I inked the swing image from the Sitting Here stamp set in Sahara Sand ink, stamped it on scrap paper once, then stamped it on a panel of watercolor paper inside the card.

You can find a complete list of supplies, including card stock cuts, at the very bottom of this post.

Alright, on with the hop!  Click the button below to hop over to see what Mary Deatherage has created today.

And just in case you get lost along the way, here is a list of the team members involved in the hop today:

1. Sandi MacIver
2. Amy Koenders – You Are Here
3. Mary Deatherage
4. Jari Francis
5. Kristi Gray
6. Heather Wright-Porto

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