With Fall approaching, hot cocoa is my drink of choice.  I truly love chocolate and when it comes in a hot beverage, I feel as if I am on top of the world.  My children love the way I make their hot cocoa for them, from scratch of course.  It was so appropriate that So Suzy Stamps has a stamp that says “hot cocoa and you by my side.”  What a terrific sentiment.  So my Happiness is… hot cocoa and my children by my side.   

I started out with water color paper and stamped my sentiment with a little hot beverage cup in Versamark and heat embossed in white.  I then used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colors and added yellow,orange, pink and purple across the paper.  I needed it to dry faster so that I could add more color so I used my heat gun for a couple of minutes.  I used the same colors and applied them on top while mixing in with the other colors.  Such a vibrant background it made.  I let this dry totally and then added it to black card stock and then to a white A2 size card base.  Simple but it made me Happy!  Thank you Suzy for allowing me to be a part of this challenge.

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Color

Versamark

heat tool

Happiness is….

hot cocoa and you by my side

hot beverage

So Suzy Stamps Challenge