When Life Gives You Lemons

I have always loved the phrase, "When live gives you lemons, make lemonade!" I also love the combination of yellow and black. 

Stamps used from I Brake for Stamps:

Lemons and Phrase Set (ibrakeforstamps.com)

Other supplies:
Watercolors Yellows and Greens
Watercolor Paper
Water brush
Parchment paper
Stazon Ink
Stamp platform
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Vintage Photo
Die cut butterfly
AAll & Create Square die #41
Nuvo Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Pen
Enamel dots

Cardstock: Yellow, black, and white
Dimensional Foam/Glue
Sticky Dots

Paint watercolor paper with blobs of yellow and green. 

Stamp image on copy paper to create a mask.  Lightly sprintz the watercolor paper with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray Vintage Photo

With Stazon Ink stamp lemons on parchment paper and fussy cut.  Using Sticky Dots adhere the stamped parchment to the area of the watercolor paper that was masked.

Stamp sentiment on white cardstock and mount on black cardstock.

Die cut black lacy mat using the AAll & Create Square die #41.  Adhere the black lacy mat to the card base. 

Die cut the watercolor paper with stamped lemons using the matching AAll & Create Square die. With dimensional foam attach the lemons to the black lacey mat.

Adhere sentiment with dimensional foam.

Apply Nuvo Midas Touch Aqua Shimmer Pen to the butterfly die cut from black cardstock. Add three enamel dots to the body of the butterfly. 

Randomly add enamel dots to the card. 

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I Brake for.....Lemons!

Hello stampers - Nancy here!!  Today I have a bright and cheery card to get you thinking about warm weather and summertime.

The card uses the great Lemons and Phrase Set, found here.  

It can also be found as part of a larger set called MS86 Full Plate, found here.

I colored the image with copics, just three markers in the Yellow range and two in the Green range did the trick.  I also tried to "stipple" the markers on the lemons to get a dimpled appearance.  Not sure if that really shows up in the photo, but it looks good irl!

Some patterned paper and a green ribbon pull it all together!  Now I am ready for lemons!  We have a lemon tree in the backyard and I look forward to getting the fruit each year.

Thank you for stopping by today!  Hop on over to the IBFS store - there are thousands of stamps available and there is a very nice selection of fruit stamps  I hope you take a look!