I decided to leave my stamped Moon Baby image left over from yesterday to dry overnight so that I could be certain it was really dry and ready for the aquapainter. Of course, I’ve now made two baby cards for girls and I found out this morning that one of the babies on the way is a boy. Good to have extra cards on hand, right?

I started by lightly outlining the image with the pacific point pencil to make the image pop but then decided on a blue sky. I was initially going to get darker towards the edges but I liked the watercolour effect with looks of different texture after the first round of colour and left it. I used the daffodil delight pencil for the moon and the star, calypso coral for the face and hand and then melon mambo for the clothing. It’s amazing what a bit of water can do for the colour!

I added a little border (just 1/8 inch larger all round) and used fast fuse to ensure my slightly damp watercolour paper holds fast. There are quite a few baby sentiments in the Moon Baby set but I wanted a longer less deep sentiment, if that makes sense. It was originally a surprise to me that not only do you need a sentiment to say the right thing, it needs to be in a typeface which matches your card AND it needs to be the right shape. At least, that’s how I justify buying more and more stamp sets with sentiments! Baby Bear had the perfect size and shape and meaning for my sentiment. Yesterday, I used daffodil delight as a base because that was the colour of the watercolor pencil. Today I used so saffron – I think I like this better. Which do you prefer?

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See you tomorrow,

Liz