Hand painted watercolor card

Hi there!
Happy Friday!
                       Watercolors are one of the best medium for landscape. I capture the nature scene on my watercolor CS. They may not be perfect or completely finished work of art, but a quick impression with a certain moods and essential color reference.

    For this painting I used my watercolors-white, sky blue, cobalt blue, sap green, light green, dark green, mustard yellow, orange, brown and black from Tri-Star watercolor cakes. I combined wet and dry techniques. It is important that the background is painted all at once and we do not touch it any more.
A closer view....

 Then, I let it dry and painted the deep forest area with lots of pine trees. After dried it, I used a silhouette stamp from Crafty Individuals for the wild grass, ferns, butterflies and dandelion partially at the bottom edge using archival black ink. I matted it on a white sheet and then on a turquoise CS. The sentiment "smile" is from Darcies Find Joy set and Happy Birthday sentiment is a die from Spellbinder shapeabilities Sentiments and highlighted the scripted words using Sakura White pen. I finished off my card with a Tim Holtz idealogy Jute string in turquoise color adding a bow and button.

 Here is the inside view:
                                      I added a border using jef punch border. And the sentiment is from Stampin' up!- "you are lovely" set. I used an emboss resist technique.  I used Wow opaque bright white ultra fine embossing powder and  Raspberry, scattered straw and peacock feather distress inks and versa green color.

 A closer look......

I hope you like my project!                                                                                                                      

 Hope all you have a day filled with smiles and stamping!

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges:

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.in/2014/08/summertime.html#
http://beyondgrey.blogspot.in/
http://littleclairesdesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/monthly-challenge-48-mans-birthday-card.html
http://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.co.nz/
http://imagination-craftschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://agirlwhocraftschalengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/
http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.in/2014/08/augusts-challenge-anything-goes.html
http://cosmicstrawberry-colette.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/cosmic-colours-challenge-4.html

http://memascrafts.blogspot.in/2013/08/august-2014-anything-goes.html#
http://seemacrafts.blogspot.co.uk/
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/#
http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.in/ --- summer is my fav. season because we can visit any hill station in summer holidays:)
http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/august-challenge-summer-colours.html
http://craftstamper.blogspot.in/-- Using the Embossing Powder resist technique by Anna Karin Evaldsson, August issue.
http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.in/
http://craft-deebowz.blogspot.in/2014/08/august-challenge.html
http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.in/
http://micassucas.blogspot.in/
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.in/2014/08/dlart-august-linky-challenge.html
http://greatimpressionsstamps.blogspot.in/2014/08/august-challenge-birthday-bash.html#
http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.in/
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.in/#
http://scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.in/#
http://timbroscrapmania.blogspot.in/
http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.in/