HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS - AUGUST - OPTIONAL HAPPY

Welcome to another challenge at Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge. I chose to go with the option of Happy for my card.  

I used watercolour for my card stock as I knew I was going to be putting a lot of water down for the background.  I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide stains to give a loose watercolour background.  Once dry I added some background stamping with Versafine Clair Morning Mist which is a soft grey - not as harsh as a black for the stamping.  

The bird is from Tracy Evans set Bird Song  and the sentiment is from Visible Image.    I added a loose border with a Micron pen and added some pink edging.  

HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS SC419

Welcome back to another Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge and our sketch challenge for you this time.  I hope you are inspired by the sketch and the Design Team's entries.  Here's mine.  

For the stripes on the right hand side I used various washi tape from Aallandcreate.  The left hand side is a background I made with the gel press.  I added the lovely bird from one of Tracy Evan's stamp sets called Birdsong which actually matches some of that lovely washi tape.