Upping the Happy

Lisa Spangler, whose style I adore, reports that she's a bit obsessed with gouache. After reading her gouache posts, and seeing all the cool stuff she's been making, I promptly went to the local art supply store and bought a few tubes. They were a bit more expensive than I anticipated, so I realized I needed to hold off before getting any more got a few more tubes from amazon.  As much as I love to support brick and mortar stores, they were a LOT less at amazon.

And here's what I made (don't you think we need to up the happiness right about now?):

This linen cardstock works beautifully for this type of card because you can see the texture through the gouache and it easily holds up for a one layer card.  No warping at all.

See what I mean?

Very easy to make. And unlike, most efforts, this came out exactly as I imagined first try.  Truth!!!

• Select a big bold sentiment, such as this one from Up the Happy from Essentials by Ellen.
• Make an A2 card from white linen cardstock.
• Paint yellow gouache (I used Primary Yellow by Winsor & Newton) as shown with a dry brush so that it is a bit bigger than the sentiment.
• Let dry. This dried by the time I finished washing out the paint brush.
• Stamp sentiment. I used Versafine Onyx. 
• Color insides of letters with Tombow markers.
• Needs something. Added a bit of this Little B washi tape.  

MOOD WHEN DONE = Ob$essed with gouache.  Thanks, Lisa!