Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Watercolor Watermelon


Stamplorations is hosting a fun World Watercolor Month link party in July that I wanted to play along with.  I painted both the background and those little slices of watermelon using diluted distress oxides. I think the chalkboard effect of my sentiment sort of gives the card a "fruit stand" feel -- now I'm hungry for something juicy, cold, and sweet!


Supplies and Tools:

  • Canson Watercolor Paper
  • These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger):
    • Picked Raspberry, Candied Apple, Lucky Clover, Black Soot
  • Metallic Sequin Black Acrylic Paint (Folk Art)
  • Joy Say It Big Series (Stamplorations)
  • Brilliance Moonlight White Ink (Tsukineko) 
  • Versamark Watermark Ink
  • White Embossing Powder 
  • Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel (Ranger)
  • Picket Fence Distress Stain (Ranger)

 

This post linked to:
Stamplorations World Watercolor Month
Stamplorations Never Ending Anything Goes Challenge
If You Give A Crafter A Cookie - Inspiration Photo (watermelon)
Allsorts - Summer fun and/or sport
Addicted to Stamps - Clean and Simple Summer card
PINspirational - Inspiration Photo (summer fruit)
Dies R Us - Anything goes (Sizzix Die)
The Paper Funday Challenge - Patriotic and/or Summertime

12 comments:

maria f. said...

Oh. How. Cool.
Fabulous job on the watercolor. What a fun summer card.

Maria said...

Oh, how fun and pretty is your watermelon card! Thanks so much for joining us at Dies R Us for the challenge!

Linby said...

ooh summer on a card - made my mouth water!

Thanks so much for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge.
Lynn x
DT

brenda said...

A super fun summery creation in pretty bright colours, perfect for our 'Summer Fun' theme at Allsorts challenge, thanks so much for joining in.

B x

Heidi MyLittleStampingBlog said...

This is fantastic! I love the colors and the chalkboard sentiment. Wow!

Pam said...

This is such a "cool" summer card!
Pam
scrap-n-sewgranny.blogspot.com

Marlies said...

A beautiful Melon card. Very well designed! Thanks for joining our challenge at Addicted to Stamps. Marlies

Darlene said...

WOW! Love it! That watermelon background is awesome! Great job my friend! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Dies R Us challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

Darlene
DIES R US
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Regina said...

This looks awesome!
Thanks for playing along with us this month.
Regina DT-Member of Paper Funday Challenge

Pink Unicorn said...

Watercolour for Watercolour month, that's just perfect :) Love your colourful card and am now craving watermelon! Thanks for playing along with us over at STAMPlorations for World Watercolour Month xx

Donna Walls said...

Another Fabulous entry Esther! Thanks for sharing with us at The Paper Funday Challenges! Donna - DT Member

Melanie said...

This card screams Summer. Love it. Love the colors. Thank you so much for sharing.

Melanie DT