Make A Wish
Hi readers! Happy Saturday! Today I’m pleased to bring you some trendy (watercolor) inspiration with that sweet Lawn Fawn touch by the awesome and super talented Chari Moss!
Enjoy!
I really like watercolors but sometimes struggle with the flowing freedom watercolors bring. I feel that I am a rather structured designer most of the time so letting things go is hard. However I do like playing with them and getting out of that comfort zone.
For this card I decided to use them for my background creating big blocks of color flicked with perfect pearl mist. I think it made a nice flowing colored base to place the more crisp graphic images over top. I embossed the cake and sentiment in black so they would pop against the background. I used some colored gel pens to accent the candles on the cake and draw a border around the my watercolor paper. I chose to finish it by matting everything on a black card base creating a nice black frame that ties in with the embossed images.
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Chari for being our guest!
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The pearl mist looks lovely with your watercolored background!
Love the watercolor and speech bubble! Super cute!
I love the Pearl Mist on the Watercolor…. This looks like something I could actually do!
Wonderful card!
What a cute card! Love the cake image!
I, too, have trouble leaving my comfort zone and am a VERY structured/linear designer, but, Wow! Everything came together so nicely here that I’m inspired. I may pull out my watercolor paper and sprays and give it a go! Thanks for sharing this!
Love the water colors. Hopefully one day I will get brave enough to try it.
Cute card – love the cake and the water colored background.
Love the addition of the perfect pearls on the background!
You did a great job!
Bright cheery card and chocolate cake – perfect!
Love the card! Who can resist cake? Well done Chari!
Great card. Love the colours.
Love the colours you used
You can’t go wrong w/ LF.
Gorgeous watercolour technique….love the shimmer effect!
Brilliant card! Thanks for reminding me of using my forgotten gel pens! Cheers!
Great job! Love the watercolor!
Very cute watercolor card!
Getting in the swing of some water coloring. The good thing it is somewhat forgiving ! Your card came out great!
Beautiful! Love those colors :D
Chari, I’m the same way… a very structured designer. However, I really do like the “trendy” look of watercolor so I must give it a try! Thanks for inspiring me to color outside of the box!!
Very interesting use of watercolor and pearl mist. i should try it too.
Lovely card by Chari!
Oh wow! What a fabulous card and awesome use of watercolour :)
Sweet and simple card…love that watercolor background!
Oooo very pretty! I like this technique and it’s even better with those cute Lawn Fawn stamps! Great job!
Love the card!
What a sweet cake! Looks great with the watercolor background!
great job!
Beautiful watercolour background with the random perfect pearls!
Beautiful Card – I am in love with all that beautiful watercoloring!!
Great card project. I love the watercolor background, so pretty
Beautiful back ground
I love the feel watercoloring gives a card. Great job.
Beautifully done. Love the colors and bold black.
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!! LOVING this FUN Card!! =) Such an AWESOME Design!! THANKS so much for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Beautiful watercoloured background and love the black cake with the coloured candles.
LawnFawn has the best stamps. Glad you are featuring them on the blog today.
The watercolor is beautiful, it really sets off the cake stamp!
Cute card!
Love the watercolouring!
You did great on the watercolor background….I think it looks beautiful!!
Easy to make card with a great background. Thanks,for,sharing.
Cute card!
Nice!
super cute card love the water color technique
I think this looks wonderful! I love the structure of the bold black frame with the free flowing watercolors! A perfect blend!!! This is beautifully done! :)
I love watercolor. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great job Chari!! Love the pretty colors here!