A fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, Patty Bennett, posted this video on how she made a beautiful card using the Rose Garden Thinlits Dies.
I am totally in love with Wink of Stella and had to try this technique for myself. I ordered just the Rose Garden Thinlits Dies, not the whole bundle…bummer! Here is my feeble attempt at this technique.
Some things did not work out as well for me as they did for Patty. I used the Multipurpose Liquid Glue to adhere the diecut to Whisper White cardstock. When I wet the cardstock to float the reinker/Wink of Stella mixture on the water, the diecut came unglued in places. I finally had to glue it back down using the Fine-Tipped Glue Pen. My coloring is a lot lighter than Patty’s because I forgot that when watercoloring, the color always dries lighter than when it is wet. Also, as you can see, the Whisper White cardstock would not lay flat even after it dried. So…I am really embarrassed to share this card. But…maybe you can learn from it like I have. Now I wish I had purchased the bundle because I would emboss the rose with gold embossing powder and then do the watercoloring technique. There would have been very little bleeding outside the lines. So note to self: Always order the bundle even if you don’t think you will use a part of it. You never know. This is the second time I didn’t order a bundle, just part of it and had to order the other half at full price.
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So take another look at the Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper and see what other ways you can use it besides Halloween. To order any of the supplies I used for this card, just click on the images below. And remember…for each $50 your order at one time, you can check off one box on my Soggy Stamper Customer Appreciation form. You can find and download the form 
The very first stamp set I ordered from the new 2015-2016 Annual Catalog was the Sprinkles of Life (139971). Not only does it have some great sayings, not only does it cover a variety of occasions, but it also has a coordinating punch Tree Builder (138295)! To top it off, Stampin’ Up! donates $3 for each of these sets purchased to the Ronald McDonald House charity. This is a win-win every way you look at it.
