A Turtle

Convention is finished and I'll be heading back home tomorrow.  I so enjoyed the time spent with old and new friends and a few members of my downline. I have lots of new ideas and am anxious to share them.

In the meantime here is another card I held off posting because I was thinking about using it for a convention swap. I've had the turtle watercolored for months. Though I really liked how the watercolor turned out I never could find quite the right layout and papers for it. Since I'm always on the lookout for good masculine cards and like to get cards that feature sets I don't see many samples of, I thought a card with the turtle would be fun to swap and set about coming up with the right card to feature. In the end I decided a relatively simple layout with lots of "white space" would work best. Though I really like the card, alas there just wasn't time to make it as a swap.

• The turtle is stamped with Black sazon ink on watercolor paper.
• The turtle is watercolored with an aquapainter and ink from inkpad lids. I used thinned out Garden Green and Always Artichoke along iwth Sahara Sand and Soft Suede.
• "happy birthday" is from Teeny Tiny Wishes
• Both the watercolored piece and the Vanilla, piece embossed with the Lattice embossing folder are layered on Always Artichoke.
• The card base is Ivory Naturals.
• The stitches at the side are done with linen thread.

I brought some stamping supplied with me and challenged some of my downline to come up with some cards using some of our free stamp sets along with some of my favorite new designer series paper.  The new set Easy Events is a great quick watercolor set so check back soon for some of our ideas.

 

 

Comments

[Sharon Fritz]

I love your card. I too, am always on the look out for simple masculine cards. I used this set to make mine, here's the link if you want to take a look
http://sharonstampsalot2.blogspot.com/2011/07/another-turquoise-turtle.html
tfs

[Debbie W]

The turtle is beautifully watercolored...how sweet is he? The card is wonderful.

[Kit Marie]

Wonderful card. Love your watercoloring! Thanks for the inspiration.