Saturday, July 29, 2017

Tutti Frutti Color Blocking

This week at Papertrey Ink, Laurie Schmidlin inspired us to use color blocking on a card for Make it Monday.  She showed us three awesome techniques, and I chose to use color blocking with watercolors.

Here is my card using images and dies cuts  from Still Life: Summer...


I started by clear embossing a plaid background on watercolor paper.  The plaid is created with Betsy's Plaid Builder set.  I then used Tim Holtz Distress inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Abandoned Coral, and Picked Raspberry to created a wash with the emboss resist technique.


Added some die cut fruits, the "enjoy" die cut from the set, and a sentiment from Ways to Say: Birthday.


Some Glossy Accents here and there, and a leftover blossom from a past stamping day. What a fun technique!

8 comments:

I Card Everyone said...

LOve the pink/yellow gradient coloring! Kelly this is really beautiful!!!
=]

lainey said...

What a pretty summer card!

Marcia Hill said...

What a lovely, lovely card Kelly! I love your plaid and water colored background...it is so perfect for those fabulous Summer fruits! Definitely a fun and happy card that someone will totally enjoy receiving!! :0)

Marge said...

So pretty. Love the fruitty mood. Background plaid pattern perfects the card ! ♡

Jennifer T. said...

Gorgeous card! I love that you made your own plaid background and your ink blending is lovely!

Lisa Elton said...

What pretty summer card Kelly, love it!

Vikki H said...

Your plaid color-blocked background says "summer" perfectly and the die cuts are the icing to the project! A card to pin for sure! Congrats to the win also!

Marybeth said...

So excited to see that you won with this darling card! Love everything about it, Kelly! So fresh I can almost smell it!