This is for Splitcoast Free for all challenge to make a card that represented SUMMER to us. When I was little I remember eating watermelon at my grandma's house in the summer. She would cut us pieces and give us knives to eat the watermelons with. My great grandma, who lived to be 99 years old, would always cut out the heart of the watermelon. She always said, when you have lived as long as I have you can do what you want. This watermelon stamp is a sneak peek at a set that will be released next week, by Mark's Finest Papers, called Planted with Love. I combined it with the checkerboard strip from another Mark's Finest Papers set called Snowman Country. The green panel, I ink spray smashed. I tried to get it to look like the outside of a watermelon. The checked paper I made using Excel. I made the cells square and colored them in a checkerboard pattern.
I did a tutorial on my blog on how I made the little watermelon embelishment.
Date: Friday, July 8, 2011 GMT Views: 581
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Sun, Jul 10, 2011 @ 1:45 PM
This watermelon card is SO refreshing, MariLynn!! Your ink-spray-smash background looks terrific, and you did a super job with your coloring. So pretty!
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