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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Super cute card!! Love the texture you got on the sheep!!
Love this card! The watercolor techniques are much appreciated–I love the painted plaid. The little lamb you painted was adorable! This card would be appropriated for many occasions. Thanks so much for sharing the techniques and inspiration!
Such a very cute and very sweet card!!
This is a very sweet card and stunning coloring ! And the advantage of such a card is that you can send it for plenty different occasions !!!!!
Not baaaad (could not resist) job on the texture.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
This is such an adorable card! :)
This turned out really pretty; I love watercolors! Very cute stamps!
This lamb is adorable. It made me smile. :)
Cute card and I really like the background paper. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Amazing background
I love the plaid background!
Such an adorable card. And you are right, it would make a great baby card as well as a Spring card. Just adorable. Love the background. Thanks for sharing
Love this plaid in the spring colors. Especially that wisp of gold. Thanks for sharing
So sweet! Great babycard!
This is such a cute card! I really love the delicate plaid background.
Love the design of this one! So adorable! Thank you for the inspiration!
Fabulous! Definitely going to try it!
Such a SWEET card!
It’s a dreary, rainy (at least not snowy) day here and this adorable card is a perfect reminder of spring! Love the plaid background and I always love to watch your techniques for painting! Thanks for the video!
That is a cute card and I love the soft colors! Thanks for sharing the video.
Love the background thanks for sharing.
What a gorgeous background! ?
So fun!
Love this! Seeing the spring colors is inspiring me to make some brighter cards. Maybe it’s time to pack up the winter stamps.
Cutest lamb ever!! Love his smile!
Very cute! I never would have thought of making the plaid with watercolor!
Love the painted plaid. It looks so easy.
super cute. Love the texture on the sheep
Debby, your pastel plaid is beautiful and the little lamb adorable!
The plaid watercolour treatment looks fabulous and easy to produce!
Love the plaid background and pop of gold shimmer-just lovely! And Baaaa back–love this cute lil’lamb.
Cute card! Love the colors.
Love the sweet peachy sheep card!
Adorable card. So glad you did a video, I do so enjoy your cards. (and your voice)
Love Debby’s adorable card!
Such a lovely card! Love the plaid background you have created in pastel! So pretty!
Gorgeous painted plaid background! The sheep is so cute – fabulous card!
Super cute card!!, love these colors!!
Such a super cute card, Debbie! I love that plaid & the sheep is adorable!
Such a sweet card. Love the colors.
Darling! Love that soft sweet plaid!
Love the colours of the plaid! Cute card.
DELIGHTFUL card Debby!
THANK YOU for sharing your video, it was WONDERFUL to see you create it and learn all the clever tips along the way :)
So cute with the sheep and I like the pretty plaid background.
A very sweet card Debby. Thanks for sharing how you made your background, love the pastels.
Love the water colored background. Hope to try it soon.
Great card, wonderful plaid and loved the video.
I adore the plaid. Thanks
Oh Debby, I love your card, it’s adorable! Thank you so much for the great tutorial, the background is fabulous!
I need to try this!