CAS card: Happy Birthday

Hi folks!!

This is the third cas card I made today using some never-before-used-supplies. I'm new to coloring and shading and I think I love it !! it is such a fun activity :) out of all three cards, the coloring came out the best in this one. I also like the ombre look of the die cut sentiment :) I have to say this little image of the critter with the balloons is adorable and I felt like making lots of stuff using this. The funny thing is that I forgot to stamp on water color paper and used regular thick cardstock for all three cards (I stamped first and did the coloring later) but the coloring went on fine without tearing the paper which was a relief! (The balloons have a shimmer to them because I applied clear wink of stella at the end but sadly the pictures don't pick up the shine )

Here are a few images of the finished card:

Supplies Used:

1. Iris cardstock 250 gsm

2. Riley Rubber Stamps- balloons 

3. Sizzix tim holtz celebration script words die 

4. Tim Holtz distress mini inkpads - broken china and chipped sapphire 

5. Zig clean color real brush pens (pack of 12)

6. Camlin brush pens (pack of 4)

7. Faber Castell Water color pencils (pack of 12)

8. Koi water brush

9. Ranger's Archival Jet Black inkpad

10. Gina Marie designs- x stitched rectangles dies

11. Fevicol glue 

12. Ranger's round blending tool and foams

13. Sequin

14. Silver Stickles

15. Clear wink of stella

Thanks for your time! Would love to read your comments :)

Stay Blessed.

I am playing along with the following challenges:

1. NBUS challenge #10 (The NBUS supplies include the two new colors of tim holtz mini inkpads that I added to my stash recently-broken china and chipped sapphire and also the silver stickles used to dot the one sequin on top of "i" )

2. Less is more challenge #313: Balloons 

3. Happy Little Stampers February CAS challenge