Doodling with Debby – Watercolored Spring Plaid
Hi friends! Thanks for tuning into the latest edition of Doodling with Debby with Debby Hughes! Today she has made this adorable sheep card with a gorgeous handmade watercolored background with Gansai Tambi Kuretake watercolors. Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hi it’s Debby here today with this month’s Doodling With Debby feature. After my recent blog post for the Hey Love Blog Hop where I watercolored a red and grey plaid I got a lot of requests to see a video. Credit must go to the fabulous Kristina Werner who kick started my love of watercolor plaid/tartan. As my previous plaid had been rich dark colors I thought I’d switch things up today with a pastel spring plaid.
Using the Gansai Tambi set I mixed up a dilute coral/pink and rich yellow. On a piece of watercolor card I started with a wide flat ended brush and painted a broad pastel pink stripe diagonally. Before starting the next stripe you either need to let the paint dry or dry it with a heat tool. If you don’t then one color will bleed in to the next. I followed up the with a narrower second stripe of the yellow. A good brush set with a couple of flat ended ones included is this Ranger set and at a really reasonable price for 7 brushes. I continued painting the stripes diagonally across the card and leaving the odd gap between stripes too. I then turned the card and painted stripes in the other direction, again drying between touching stripes. For a final accent I use the Moon Gold color in the Finetec set to add a few narrow champagne gold stripes.
I cut the completed watercolored plaid with a Stitched Rectangle and wrapped it with Lawn Fawn twine. I thought the plaid would make a great background when combined with the lamb from Melody’s Easter for a spring or new baby card. I stamped the lamb in Versafine Onyx Black ink and lightly watercolored with the Gansai Tambi paints before cutting out with the matching die. I also cut a Stitched Circle from watercolor card to mount the lamb on and prevent it getting lost in the busy background.
For the sentiment I used the I See You set and stamped the speech bubble outline in Versafine Onyx Black. I then stamped the ‘baaah’ word from Melody’s Easter three times using Rosie Cheeks and Melon inks which toned well with the plaid before die cutting the speech bubble with the matching die. All the elements are foam mounted on an Ivory card base and then accented with sequins from Little Things From Lucy’s Cards.
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The look on this little sheep on today,s card is just precious.
Neat plaid background.
Awesome video…LOVE, love and love that Lamb! Awesome water coloring. Thanks so much for sharing with us!
What a beautiful plaid and your sheep is adorable!!
OH wow! Love the plaid!
This is a really, really pretty card Debby, it was awesome to watch you create the plaid. A wonderful video! Thanks so much for doing this!
Simply delightful
so cute and i luv the soft plaid
Great card – Awesome background!
Oh my , the sheep is so cute and the plaid is darling !
O wow, what a great card! That little lamb is so cute and your plaid background is just beautiful with the soft colours. Love it and the video is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Sweet design, love the little sheep! Thanks for sharing, have a wonderful day!
super cute and beautiful card!
Darling card! Love that plaid!
Love the little sheep! Makes me remember Easter and spring are just around the corner!
LOVE the plaid & what a cute sheep!
Wow, what a pretty plaid background and great technique! Thanks for the tutorial.
very light and cute
The watercolor plaid background ooks beautiful! Very good technique!
Love the sheep and the background paper is so pretty!
Too cute!!!
This card is just adorable! I love the pastel plaid look and will have to try this myself. Thanks for sharing this!
Adorable…I have to try!!!
Cristina
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Absolutely adorable!
that little sheep is so cute! love!
I love the cute sheep and sentiment! Thanks for sharing!
I originally thought that patterned paper was used, wow, so pretty. I love the colors.
Thank you for sharing your technique and tips!Very cute card!
Wonderful background!
Oh Debby I love all the soft designs you make. Also you sense of photography is awesome!
Love the beautiful soft colours and what a cute sheep ?
I am totally going to give this a go. I’ve been obsessed with watercoloring lately!
Very sweet card…love the plaid you created.
Absolutely adorable! Thanks for the inspiration :)
Love this card! Great background.
What an absolutely adorable card! I would definitely use this for a new baby card! Love this pastel plaid.
Such a sweet card. Love the soft plaid background and the texture on the sheep.
Beautiful card Debbie, I love the background you created and the little sheep is so adorable! Thank you for the excellent video tutorial, I really enjoyed learning how you painted your plaid background, so now I am going to give it a try.
Great plaid background and I really like the subtle colors and touch of gold. The lamb is super cute
Oh how sweet!
I LOVE THE WAY YOU CREAT THE BACKGROUND.TFS.
Beautiful card, love the colours and the beautiful plaid background!
Love the plaid background.
Great card…love that adorable little sheep!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!
An adorable card. I love the beautiful water colored background. You did a great job on it, I thought it was patterned paper. TFS.
Love the sheep
This is such a lovely plaid. Love it combined with that darling sheep. TFS.