watercolor blog hop!

Hi there!

I'm thrilled to be on both the Ellen Hutson and Avery Elle teams, and today they are joining together to show off Avery Elle's new line of watercolors.



I had fun with the Cherry color, and used it to create a quick background for the cute critters (from Party Pals.)



I did a quick wash, waited for it to dry, and then went back in again on the right side to add a bit more depth and color. I flicked on some of the Cherry watercolor to make pink flecks, and did the same with some white ink.

The animals and balloons were all colored using copic markers.

I hope you like it! Hop along with us - here is a list of today's participants:

Avery Elle

Julie Ebersole

Caryn Davies

Lisa Spangler

Heather Campbell

Emily Midgett

Yainea

Melania Deasy

Carissa Wiley

Katie Gehring

Carly Tee Minner

Ashley Marcu

Elena Roussakis

Laurel Beard

Sandy Allnock

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Pierced mat frame (with Avery Elle)

Hi there!

I have a fun card to show off today, using some new Avery Elle products:

I love the new Pierced Mat Elle-ments - they helped to frame my focal image, which really pops in contrast to the white frame.

I used the new watercolors to create a very easy background. I wet my watercolor paper first, and then dropped blue watercolor on top and let the water do all of the hard work. I used only one watercolor: sapphire. It's cool to see all of the color variations you can get from one color!

Then, I stamped, colored and die-cut images from Party Pals. Aren't they the cutest? I colored more than I needed, so I will definitely be using them again on future cards.



I stacked them like a totem pole, added a huge pink balloon and let the "yay" banner be the sentiment for the card. I like keeping cards with ambiguous sentiments in my stash, you know? It could be used for almost anything now.

I hope you like it!

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