Christmas in July!

Hi friends!

Christmas in July is a fun tradition and it sure seems like

 we all need a little extra cheer!

This is such a fun time of year when Christmas 

is mingled with the blazing hot summers.

My personal favorite?

 Santa on the beach!

Everyone needs a holiday :)

The idea behind Christmas in July is a wonderful joy ~

it shouldn't be just one time a year.

Kinda like a half-birthday ...

twice is better than once!

My card is one that I did for Watercolor Wednesday at SCS

and it was somehow stuck in draft mode.

 I missed about 2 weeks of reality not even knowing my own name

so I'm sure it had a lot to do with that!

Hi. My name is Starbucks Kelly and I love coffee you!

For this card, I used the Altenew watercolor brush markers

and I am IN LOVE with these!

I'm still learning how to navigate the water and layer the colors

and I'm having fun in the process!

This is the layered Jolly Holly background from Taylored Expressions,

stamped with pigment ink for fast drying, no watercolor smearing.

I heat set this with the embossing tool in between each color 

(after the greens, then after the reds) to avoid any welling.

I usually chose my cardstock and/or papers first

(to make sure I have colors that will match)

so I was lucky that after it was waterolored, I found just the right ones.

The final touch was a sentiment stamp 

with a friendly greeting.

The joy in these big background style cards 

is even though they are large, they are super simple to mass produce.

And it was nice to dust off a stamp set that's been sitting in the bin

for way too long :)

I'm still doing card catch up and I'm way behind ...

baby steps!

Thanks for stopping by 

and, as always,
Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

~Kelly