{"id":772,"date":"2014-04-23T01:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/?p=772"},"modified":"2025-10-26T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:39:30","slug":"happy-birthday-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday &#8211; Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>For today&#8217;s card I wanted to play with some different techniques and I think the results are quite charming. The balloons were stamped on watercolor paper and colored in with watercolor pencils. I love working with pencils over a paint\u00a0palette\u00a0because it makes me feel like I have much better control on my canvas. I used a\u00a0water brush\u00a0to do my actual blending. The lacy designs on top and bottom were created using Japanese style washi tape.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/happybirthday.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday\" width=\"500\" height=\"709\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Supplies<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Card Base<\/strong>:\u00a0Hero Hues Notecard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paper<\/strong>: DCWV &amp; Strathmore watercolor paper<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stamp<\/strong>: Stampendous \u2013 Birthday Wishes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ink<\/strong>\u00a0: Momento Tuxedo Black<\/p>\n<p><b>Watercolors<\/b>\u00a0: Derwent Inktense Pencils<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washi Tape<\/strong>: Recollections? (There was no label to be found on the package)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, For today&#8217;s card I wanted to play with some different techniques and I think the results are quite charming. The balloons were stamped on watercolor paper and colored&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[160,155,131,64,119],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cards","tag-balloons","tag-birthday","tag-inktense","tag-washi-tape","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joliesamuel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}