 Well, hello there. It's Sandy Allnock and I have a super easy and beautiful watercolor card for you today for the Ellen Hudson new release blog hop Before I get started on my card I want to show you some other things which is the rest of the new release Ellen has these new nested dies and they each make a frame So the frame looks about like that so you can use the frame you can use the inside You can use the outside lots of different ways you can use these they come in all different shapes Hallelujah, so glad to have these and there's even hexagons I'm gonna have to come up with something to do with those you know I am and there's this box I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'm sure someone else in this blog hop will have used the box There's an OMG. How great is that gonna be on a card more? Sentiments because Ellen has lots and lots of great sentiments and this one is supposed to go with the succulent set that you'll see later on As well as of course in my my card that I'm making there's a couple of background graphics some stripes and This lovely pinwheel, which will be fun now I made cards out of the rest of these stamps just to show you and this is a cute little hot dog Oh my gosh. He's so cute. You could decorate the sweaters You could put hot dogs on the on the little dogs and Mine I just love the fact that they're sniffing butts because my dog does that all the time this little lion it's called a brave heart it is the name of the stamp and there's a Kind of screaming lion with his mouth open as well as the lion that I painted and They're really gonna be fun to make cards with of course has dies everything always does nowadays and then the circus set If you saw Ellen's channel the other day I did a video showing these three cards using the life as a circus set And so I'll link you to that one at the end of this one if you want to go see how I made these There are a lot of fun colored pencil Using them the stamp set in different ways to give you new ideas on what you can do with these new sets and How to create that extra swing etc etc? And there's also a little circus wagon that goes with these I have not had a chance to play with that either and I'm excited to and now we come to the succulents There's this set that has small succulents and then the Mondo. I love the Mondo stamps I'm a sucker for these and I tried this one in a couple different ways The one of the left I painted it a little more literally Because it's it's got that circular pot and then I did this thing that I just was So tickled with how it came out So I'm really glad I had the camera on because I might need to go back and look at this again So I remember what I did I have embossed the stamp in white first on my arches watercolor paper And then just started dropping in colors now that greenish color that bluish green on the outside That's really wet. That's actually my paint water. I was painting with a phthalo green So my watercolor is just really weird in its color, but it was really gorgeous I'm showing you the side angle because I want you to see how much water is there to make these Blending effects happen. I started throwing in into this in addition to the serpentine green and the sap green I started throwing in blues. There's a little bit of French ultramarine blue and there's some Perling green and and you can play with all different kinds of colors doing this The key to making this really fun. I think was the fact that I didn't color the whole thing There is a round pot there as you saw on the other card, but I didn't color the pot. I just put Dark colors into some of the flowers themselves into the some of the the succulents and then for fun I threw in some Aussie red gold just dropped in a few places here and there and then just let it dry I didn't fill the whole page with color. I just let it dry Well, okay, I didn't completely let it dry the Aussie red gold scared me a little bit So I did dab off some So you can do a little bit of that, but it's really better if you just let it dry Don't fuss with it and let the paint just do what it wants to it's not beautiful And it was so easy. It literally took as long as you saw. I didn't cut anything out. That's how quick it is So there are my two succulent cards again The one on the left painted much more literally with the pot and the one on the right with just throwing color in and letting it be a beautiful kind of graphical design So these are cards I've made so far if I make any before the release I'm going to add them to my blog and of course with blog hops There's always a giveaway so go check that out even if you only leave a comment on mine You never know you might win just from that one and I will see you again very very soon Go see the whole release. It's really fun. Talk to you later. Bye guys