Jules has chosen Peach and Teal for our mid-February Color Hues Challenge.
After being buried in snow this winter, these spring colors shouted “florals” to me. I pulled out another NBUS floral stamp, Charming Bouquet, from Altenew was sent to me last year as a thank you. It included dies for the floral bouquet as well as the sentiments. Such a nice gift!
I decided to do some watercoloring, so stamped and embossed the design onto ArtPop watercolor paper. I love the texture of this paper, and use it for card bases as well as for watercoloring. I used a mixture of Zig Clean Color Brush markers and Tomboy markers with a damp brush in order to get the hues of peach and teal I wanted. I also used light and medium gray markers as a neutral.
After watercoloring and die cutting the florals, I used a card design I saw on Michele Short’s blog some time ago. I die cut two of the Pinkfresh Studio Nested Hexagon Blanket Stitch dies and glued them together for some dimension. Then I arranged the florals, adding dimensional tape where needed. I also used dimensional tape to adhere the die cut sentiment (from Charming Bouquet.) When I went hunting for some embellishments, I was delighted to find some peach jewels by Pinkfresh Studio.
As always, you’ll find plenty of inspiration on the Color Hues Challenge blog from my talented Design Team members as well as our Guest Designer, Gundi.
Karen, your flowers are incredibly pretty and certainly pop against the white background. Beautiful inspiration for peach and teal. I’m intrigued by your watercolour paper; the texture is lovely.
hugs~carol
Lovely cards & yes with two storms looming on the forecasts, flowers are a cheery reminder that spring will eventually arrive & the snow will go away. Your watercolouring is perfection & those embellishments dazzle.
Such beautiful flowers and I’m loving that hexagon frame. That texture is amazing and sets off you flowers beautifully! Yep, we both were feeling the hexagons this time around!
Your flowers look so pretty Karen. Love the frame you’ve used. I might have to add it to my never ending wish list! Those w/c markers are great for colouring small blooms and when you don’t want to get the ‘big’ set out! 🙂
Love the design and love the watercoloring! I recently made my first bunch of cards using watercolor paper as the base. It was a first for me and I loved it so much, I just kept going. LOL! Love your bright hues!
I too love the texture of Watercolor paper for card bases. This is a lovely watercolored floral and card and I really like the layout too.
Oh Karen…your card is CAS and absolutely GORGEOUS!! I too love the texture on your watercolor cs and how perfectly it looks with your lovely blooms. And the hexagon frame stands out so beautifully too! Lovely, lovely card my friend!! Hugs. :0)
Such a sweet bouquet and love the shades of peach and teal! The hexagon frame makes a great background!
So lovely! Your work is always flawless, Karen. This pretty and sweet design just makes my eyeballs smile. And your photography is outstanding, too! Hugs, Darnell
p.s. Thanks for linking to NBUS again!
Karen I love your frame die and the pretty flower so beautifully watercoloured! Fabulous as always!
You’ve created such beautiful card, Karen. Wonderful water coloring and a great design with the hexagon frame. CAS elegance! I have that stamp too and now you’ve inspired me to use it (and buy the dies lol!).
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