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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I truly enjoyed your demonstration of meeting this lamb card. What is the name of the thing that you use to line up things on your card I’d like to purchase that .
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Lovely card!! The plaid background is very pretty and soft and I adore the lamb!
This background is beautiful. I love this idea and can’t wait to try it.
Great card! :)
CUTE!!!
I’m not usually a fan of plaids, but this background is so soft and pretty, how can I resist – I’m off to buy a wide brush! Thanks, Debbie, for another great card.
You make it look so simple. I really need to try this.
Cute card! Beautiful background! I subscribe by email.
WOW, love the gorgeous watercolor plaid background!
I have gotten into loving plaids lately. So many possibilities with them. I love your sweet card. Really just so sweet. Thanks for the very informative video. I really have to try this.
Amazingly pretty plaid with just brush & watercolor! I’ve got to try this! Adorable card Debbie!
cute card…..I like the plaid.
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Beautiful! I love the soft colors.
Thanks for sharing.
What a sweet card. I love your soft plaid. It really is the perfect background for the sheep.
Wow, I love that background! Fantastic! Gorgeous colors too!
Its simply baaah-utiful❣
Such a pretty plaid and super sweet card!
So cute! Thanks for sharing the watercolor technique.
I really liked what you did with the watercolors, it’s facinating. I haven’t tried watercoloring yet.. I hope I’ll get to it someday. Great card :)
Wow, that plaid is beautiful.
I absolutely love the background!
It would make a wonderful baby card! Love the plaid painted background.
Love the background idea. Great Spring colours. Debby makes it look so easy.
Love the colors and the cute little sheep:)
BEAUTIFUL WORK, DEBBY! I LOVED seeing this SWEET CARD come together! I LOOOOVED the painting of the plaid, especially! ;)
Such a cute card! Love the addition of a bit of metallic shimmer to the plaid, so pretty!
I love the plaid papers so I’m happy to have
instructions for making my own plaids.
Your colors are so soft and pretty.
The gold really pops.
Fantastic card.
thanks for sharing.
Beautiful water-colored plaid Debby! I hope to try this technique.
Adorable card – thank you :-)
Love how you made the background & your painting of the sheep is incredible!
Darling card – I just love it!!! Thanks so much for your video!
cute card, and I love the pastel plaid!
Awesome card!
Super cute card!!
This is just stunning Wanda! I’m gonna here to give this a try!
Thank you for showing your technique! I loved your red and grey plaid and it took me three times to make my own plaid. I ended up using a ruler (and a tiny cutting paintbrush to smooth the edge if needed) to keep my shaky hand straight. This is a beautiful card and I can’t wait exploring more plaid colour palettes :)
super cute card!! love the pastel soft colors used and that sheep is adorable! thanks for sharing the video tutorial, loved it!
That sheep is be-ewe-tiful! Lovely background too!
fun post
Beautiful card!! The plaid background is very pretty and soft.Thanks for sharing!
Love this background so pretty and soft. Beautiful and cute at the same time. Great job.
Adorable! I really appreciate your videos and how you explain your techniques.
This is such a cute and beautiful card, love the plaid background! Great idea!
What a sweet card! Love the plaid background and that sheep image is adorable!
Darling card! Love that awesome plaid background. ♥
Such a beautiful card..loved it. Thank you for the inspiration and the tutorial
So cute!
Such a DARLING card!!!! Love it:)
I was thinking about trying to make my own plaid water color. Thanks for the inspiration. I’m going to watch your video later to help guide me. Your card is too cute.
such a fun background process. . . you definitely have the touch!