I got the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack as a Sale-a-bration freebie and have barely used it. Actually I rarely use vellum – I should work on that! This card started as a potential design card for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge this week – a colour challenge of chocolate chip, tempting turquoise and blushing bride. I used an aquapainter to get the card fairly wet and then added a pale wash of blushing bride at the top and tempting turquoise at the bottom. After using the heat tool to dry the paper, I stamped the image from Wetlands in chocolate chip. There seemed to be something missing so I added the sentiment from Watercolor Wishes to the bottom in more chocolate chip. I just couldn’t get this card to cooperate and be sufficiently CAS for the design team so I put it to one side.

After playing with various mats, I decided to try the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack as a mat/background. Apparently after going to the opera last night and a pedicure tonight (on top of work) I was tired and couldn’t cut the vellum the right size. After the second failure (!) I decided to cut a quarter of an inch off the card base to fix the issue! I used fast fuse to fix the watercolour paper to the vellum and also to the card base of soft sky. The tempting turquoise was just a bit too loud to work with the washed out colour that I’d put on the paper.

See you tomorrow,

Liz