Todays card is featuring watercolour shimmer once again but a real change in pace as I went really simple with four stripes of watercolour and then a digital image water coloured with inks (not shimmer).
Seriously so simple and an elegant (and suitable for any gender recipient) card … well that’s what I think!
I chose neutral colours from the palette (my shimmer watercolours are just cheap ones from hobby craft) and did two wider stripes, one mid size and one narrower.
I made sure I had put down a fair amount of the paint to give it a good amount of colour and shimmer.
I then set it aside to dry.
Next I coloured in the digital image. I’ve used this before for a design team challenge so already had it printed and ready to go. Once that was dry I set it aside before chopping it down into a panel. I then created a mat layer for that and the background from Kraft.
I then heat embossed the sentiment in gold. Layered that onto Kraft too. Adhered it to the front.
I felt it needed an embellishment but something less shiny than a gem or a pearl so I grabbed a screw head brad and added that instead.
Simple but super effective using that background to create a cool and elegant card. Thinking that doing the stripes again in another colour but brighter would also look amazing … but that will have to be another day!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
Inkyfingeredcat 
That’s fab – love the way the background stripes pick up the fence posts in the image x
Sometimes it’s just the simple things that work best isn’t it?