A watercolored happy birthday

Hi all! Angel here with a birthday card using the MFT Birthday Bears set! I kinda sorta love these bears. A lot. I inked the images with Ranger Distress Markers, then clear embossed them. I was going for the no-line look, so I then took the same distress markers and lightly colored in areas I wanted some shading then used an aqua painter to spread the color around. This set has matching die-namics which I used to cut out the images. For the background, I used more distress inks and an aqua painter and just basically colored some splotches :D and added flecks of ink, too. I used one of the elements from the Blueprints 25 for the sentiment strip. I popped up the sentiment and the bear and balloon with Kool Tak clear foam adhesive. A trio of the *new* BRI sequins called aqua-holics anonymous add a bit more detail.