Saturday, May 21, 2022

Beach Happy

I am already in summer mode and thinking beachy cards. This week at Just Us Girls Challenge #633 it is Color Week: Coral, Blue, Tan. I went for a water feel with my iris effect card, which I have made a couple of times before here and here. I learned this technique from Debby Hughes here. Hope you like it!






As you can see, I tried patterned paper this time with water prints. I also used some aqua vellum because it seemed "watery" to me too! I enjoy this technique so much...it is a little like putting a puzzle together. I try to use all of my papers more than once but not let the same patterns be right next to each other. I ink blended my already coral fish with distress ink in Abandoned Coral to give some shading. I added the rough twine for the tan element and a rope/beachy texture.

Products I used:

Poppy Stamps: Whittle Fish Trio

Stampin' Up!: Beach Happy stamp set

Archival ink: Cobalt

Ranger Distress Oxide: Abandoned Coral

Patterned papers and vellum

Twine

We hope you will join us this week for this pretty color combo! You are sure to be inspired by the variety of great ideas the team came up with, each completely different.

-Carol

21 comments:

Deborah Wheeler said...

That's brilliant Carol - it's got real impact

Sue VanDeVusse said...

That iris effect is amazing in the blues with the coral fish swimming in the middle! These colors worked perfectly for this beauty!

ElizStewart said...

Carol... your water background is BRILLIANT! A bit like making a scrap quilt. Love this card oh...so much!

cm said...

Carol, the aperture is awesome; a perfect ocean for your trio of whittle fish! LOVE this!
hugs~carol

Nancy said...

My favorite card of the week! Awesome and so creative!

Karen said...

I love this card! It's a technique I've never tried, and I loved all your previous Iris cards as well!

Carol said...

Thank you Sue!

Carol said...

Thank you Elizabeth!

Carol said...

Thanks so much Carol!

Carol said...

Thanks Nancy!

Carol said...

Thank you so much Karen!

Vicki Dutcher said...

How fun are the layers of paper! Great use of the colors

Bobby said...

I love this, Carol! I've never tried this technique and it seems a little like quilting to me so I'll try to give it a go. The papers you chose work so well together and do have an underwater feel.

Ina G said...

Love your iris fold card Carol and so perfect for under the sea fishes. Great take on our colour challenge with those lovely papers.

Carol said...

Thanks Vicki!

Carol said...

Thank you Bobby! Are you a quilter?

Carol said...

Thank you Ina!

Carol said...

Thanks Deborah!!!

Lisa Kind said...

That technique is so cool! I love how it looks with those papers you chose. Great card!

Carol said...

Thanks so much Lisa!

Carol said...

Thanks so much everyone. I made a change so that you can post comments and now I can't answer individually!