Friday, February 5, 2016

Papertrey 2016 Anniversary Day One

Hello! I am so excited about the Papertrey 9th anniversary festivities over on Nicole's blog! Today is Day One, and Nicole shared that there will be no changes in the  PTI design team this year! Yeah! All the uber-talented ladies will be back! That's great news as far as I am concerned, because I think they ROCK the stamping community! 
Each Design Team member shared their favorite card from 2015 and the color combo they used on it. The day one challenge is to pick one of the color combos and create a card using it. It was hard to choose one - they are all so beautiful! I ended up with Lizzie's color combo:
 This is my attempt to use this color combo and practice my watercoloring skills. I just finished taking the Online Card Class for Intermediate Watercolor Techniques and have a lot of practicing to do! I used the Friendship Jars Spring Fillers stamp set.
I "smooshed" Aqua Mist and Hawaiian Shores on the background, then heat embossed the tulips in white, then used Berry Sorbet, Summer Sunrise and Limeade Ice reinkers to watercolor the tulips. The card front is mounted on a Hawaiian Shores card base. Love this color combo - it's so happy!
Enjoy the anniversary festivities and thanks for stopping by!

15 comments:

  1. You hit this color combo out of the park. Just love those tulips, and this is a masterpiece.

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  2. Beautiful card- love the artistic splatters

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  3. Awesome card...great job using the watercolor technique for your card!

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  4. Beautiful and glad you were able to use a technique from the on-line class. Love it.

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  5. Wonderful card, your watercolor application is beautiful! Great Job!

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  6. Beautiful! Love the water colored background.

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  7. Gorgeous. Susan ,love the smooshing!

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  8. Oh Susan your card is stunning <3 I love your smooches

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  9. Love the background and the watercolor pastels. Beautiful!

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  11. Wow, Susan! This is beautiful. I took the class too, but life got in the way and I have still to finish. You did a wonderful job with this!

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  12. Just simply gorgeous! I really need to take this class :)

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  13. Absolutely love this Susan! Great techniques and beautiful use of the colour palette.

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