July 25, 2013

Watermelon Card for Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

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Welcome to another Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. This month the focus was luscious, mouth-watering summer fruit colour combos. I was missing many of the colours of inks and papers used in the combos so this truly was a challenge for me!

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First I had planned on using this one and omitting the new leaf which I DO NOT like. The challenge did say we didn’t have to use every colour. I planned to make a 3-D, triple-scoop ice cream cone with dies and stamp some gorgeous berry sorbet and GOLD! swirls behind. Oh yeah! But I had NO harvest gold paper. Maybe the colour is too new to be in my multi pack I bought and rely on heavily? I’m still switching over from SU! to PTI as my main source of cardstock. I have no scraps either and don’t remember using any as card bases (the only way I’d not have any scraps) so I guess that must be it. I will have to write down my idea (I guess i just did, didn’t I? hee hee) and make it later!

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I usually get to the card right away, sorry! Here it is finally! The colour and inspiration photo is below. I don’t usually take a lot of inspiration from colour challenge photos but I was kind of stumped on a way to use these colours especially since I don’t have any raspberry fizz, limeade ice or new leaf ink.

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Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps:
Sweet Life, BB-Hearts-PTI
Ink: Ranger Archival black, PTI white, frayed burlap Distress ink
Paper: new leaf, hibiscus, raspberry-PTI
Accessories: white EP-Hero Arts, white pastel pencil, foam dots-Jody Morrow, lace, gems-stash, dies-Lifestyle crafts

8 comments:

victoria h said...

very creative - lovin' those hearts for pips and the chalkboard sentiment

Nancy Penir said...

Sweet and clever, Rebecca. Even if you didn't have the colors you wanted to use, you pulled off a very special card!

Karen said...

What a fun card! I love it.

Anne B said...

Yum - the watermelon definitely makes me think of summer. Fab idea :)

janelle said...

Too cute! Little black hearts for seeds... Love!

Leigh Penner said...

Eeek, this is so pretty and adorable! Fabulously creative!

Pat K said...

Really neat watermelon card. So clever to use the black hearts for seeds!

Tracey McNeely said...

Sweet! Fantastic watermelon.