Jun 04 2007
Coral Watercolored Bloom
Hello!
I made this card for Beate’s weekend challenge at her blog! I thought this sketch would work perfectly with my new Stampendous “Fresh Bloom” stamp!
In person, those Prima Hydrangeas are the same color as the coral bloom. Stinkin’ camera, LOL! 
The image was stamped on watercolor paper using Palette noir ink, then watercolored using markers and ink from the lid of the pad. I used summer sun, cameo coral, and chocolate chip. I wanted these colors to really *pop* so I chose ballet blue for the card base, and stamped it with the Paisley bg stamp. Since the card measures 5×5, and is larger than the bg stamp, I stamped the top section, then the bottom section; leaving a gap where they meet. This is fine, because I knew I’d be covering it with the saffron panel.
The saffron polka dot panel is from the pallette o’prints pack of paper. (wow thasa lotta p’s LOL!) I added the little “friend” tab to it first, by punching it out of a piece of white scrap using the designer label punch. Then, I machine stitched it to the cardfront.
I dug through my stash of Primas and found these yummy peachy/coral hydrangeas. I attached them with rhinestone brads, following the layout of the given sketch.
Finally, I cut out my bloom, ran the coral marker around the raw white edges, adhered to the cardfront on pop-up glue dots, and added some Stickles.
Thanks for the fun sketch, Beate! I loved it 
Hope you all have a great day today!! Bye for now!!
Stamps: paisley, fancy flex phr, fresh bloom (stampendous)
Ink: ballet blue, summer sun, cameo coral, choc chip, palette noir
Paper: watercolor, ballet, saffron palette o’prints, papertrey white
Accessories: aquapainter, primas, rhinestone brads, stickles, sewing machine, white thread, designer label punch, papersnips, pop-up glue dots
Trudee, your card is gorgeous. Love the colors, love your stitching, LOVE the big bloom, the way you colored it and all that bling! Gorgeous!!!
I never would have thought to use those colours together… but they are beautiful together!
OMGosh how gorgeous is this!!! I LOVE the color combo!! Those hydrangea’s look awesome with it!! Wonderful!!
What a gorgeous card! Love the colors you chose. Very vibrant and pretty!
Pretty colors together, T, and great job with the sketch. I got the other Stampendous bloom, LOL!
Oooh, very pretty!
Gorgeous, yummy, scrumptious! Yeah! I was playing with that flower this morning, too. Don’t have my card done yet, though. Got distracted, lol.
This is just gorgeous!!! Oh my goodness how the colors pop right off the page. I love it!!
barb
This is gorgeous Trudee! Love that flower for the design and love the pop of your coloring!
This is beautiful. The colors are so vibrant and the blue does make the other colors “pop” off the card and your watercoloring is absolutely gorgeous!
Beautiful! I really love those colors. And the stitching is the perfect touch.
This is sooo beautiful, Trudee! I love it!
so pretty, I have the ruffled version of this flower and just love it! Love your color choices they really do pop, totally understand the camera frustration!
OMG, that is beautiful! I love that stamp and I love what you did with it!
This is breathtaking, Trudee! I just love the colors you used!!!
So pretty Trudee! I love all of these Stampendous blooms. They look lovely with soft, muted colors or more vibrant cards as you did here! Simply gorgeous!
Linda
This is beautiful, T! Fabulous coloring!!
Gorgeous! and these colors definitely pop!
I love how you adapted this sketch! Beautiful card, Trudee!
Beautiful! Bet it’s SUPAH SPARKLEY!!!
SHOOT, comment in wrong place, LOVE this card, too, though… Ü
Hi
Great book. I just want to say what a fantastic thing you are doing! Good luck!
Bye