May Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Challenge

Not that any month seems to drag along any more, but May has really flown by. We spent all day yesterday helping Matt and Betsy move to a new (to them) house just five houses away from their previous home. They’re expecting #2 in November (!!!!) and this house has quite a bit more room, and a fabulous, huge, fenced-in yard. They’re going to love it there. We’ll be back there again today helping them get settled. When I got home last night, I had time to play around with some watercolor techniques and a new stamp and die set from Papertrey Ink.

This month’s blog hop challenge was a color challenge: Aqua and Melon.

My first card meets the challenge with both colors. 

I love this new butterfly set, “A Beautiful Life.” The darkest of the butterflies was die cut from a piece of Bristol paper on which I did a watercolor wash with some Peerless watercolors. The other two butterflies were stamped after coating them with Gelatoes and spraying them with water. Then I die cut the stamped images which were amazingly easy to line up. The sentiment is also from the same set stamped in Aqua Mist.

I decided the butterflies were a bold enough statement that they didn’t need any other embellishment.

My second card is my favorite, and although I tried adding some melon accents I really like it better without them. So here it is, even though it really doesn’t meet the challenge.

I stamped the butterfly image with Aqua Mist on a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper, and then “bled” the ink around the image much the way Betsy Veldman did here. Then I added a butterfly die cut from dotted vellum, and a die cut from an aqua watercolor wash with Peerless watercolors. This time a few white sequins seemed in order.

Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!