Olive Whale
I really like this layout. I am sure I will use it again and again. Here is a card I made yesterday. I had fun playing with the set Pun Fun ! It’s so cute! Corinne Somerville made so many cute samples with it that I had to order it. I made another card with it that I will share later on.
I never liked my watercoloring much.
BUT….using watercolor paper makes all the difference. I am having a blast trying to improve my coloring…and finding out that I like the end result.
The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Basic Black cardstock layered with a 4″ square of Blue Bayou.
Both of the designer paper pieces are from the Spring Break Designer Paper pack. I love that paper!!! The horizontal strip measures 3″ x 4″ and was paper pierced and sanded on the right hand side. The vertical strip measures 1 3/4″ x 4″ and was paper pierced on the left. Black brads were added above and below the main image and 5/8″ wide Olive grosgrain ribbon was tied around it.
I stamped the Whale from Pun Fun in Black StazOn on a 1 7/8″ square of watercolor paper. It was colored in with Aqua Painter and classic inks (River Rock, Old Olive, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou and a touch of Cameo Coral for his blushing cheeks). It was layered on a 2″ square of Basic Black cardstock. The next layer is a 2 1/2″ square of sponged Blue Bayou. I added the dotted border with a white gel pen. The image was adhered to the card with dimensionals.
I wasn’t sure if the Olive would work on the whale, but I really like it now. I hope it doesn’t look weird too you. I was making the card during Lost. Could be that I was too tired to see the wrongness of it.
