Sunday 6 August 2017

Less is More - Tropical Fruits

I was sorting through some of my stash yesterday and had at the side of my mind (it hadn't reached the back of my mind yet), that this week, Less is More have a colour challenge of "Tropical Fruits". I came across this die from a Chinese seller on eBay and thought that I could colour her in to resemble the inside of a tropical fruit. My initial thought was the inside of a dragonfruit with pinky/red skin and white flesh with tiny black seeds dotted in it. When I retrieved the die though and realised that the butterflies were bigger than I thought, I remembered a post that Ruth had made earlier this year about "melonizing" images. I thought that the butterflies cut out of the dress would make perfect seeds and so, only about 9 months behind the trend, I decided to "melonize' her dress.
I die cut the image and coloured it in using my copics. I left the flesh of the watermelon quite patchy as that replicated the photos of slices I looked at. I stamped the sentiment from Clearly Besotted on the rectangle of white card, before gluing it onto the green mat on a 5x7 card blank. I glued the image on the card and inlaid the butterflies from the die cut at the bottom of her dress and coloured them to match. I die cut the dress again in black card and inlaid the rest of the butterflies in black. To finish I added glossy accents to the black seeds/butterflies. Simples!

20 comments:

  1. Now this is so clever! What an imaginative and unique idea. What a fantastic idea to do the seeds as black butterflies. This card is so unique and in a good way made me chuckle....clever clever clever xxx

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  2. How clever! She looks fab, Jo x

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  3. What a clever idea Cara and she looks lovely. A super card. Barbxx

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  4. Cara, this is brilliant. I love her butterfly/melon dress . Off to see what on trend I missed out on!! Hugs Mrs A.

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  5. Very clever idea and it looks brilliant, well I have never heard of melonizing but it is very effective.

    Kath x

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  6. Oh my Cara this is fabulous, so clever how you've made her dress, brilliant design and colours, Kate

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  7. So fun and creative! Wonderful colouring. Great work melonizing her dress. Thank you for joining us this week at Less is More. 😊 Trina

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  8. Hi Cara
    That's some imagination you have gal but it looks fab.
    Have a great week.
    Ang x

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  9. Wow! I love this card! It combines watermelon and a girl! So original! Love it, my friend.

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  10. Such a creative card. Thanks for sharing at Less is More!

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  11. I LOVE that you turned the dress in to a watermelon - brilliant!

    Kathyk

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  12. Hi Cara, I must say that as soon as I saw her I thought watermelon Lol! before I had even read the post. Love it, Angela xXx

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  13. Creative and cute. Love the texture. [Bunny]

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  14. WOW - not that really IS thinking outside the box. TOP MARKS for originality.

    Great card for the challenge.

    Hugs, Sarn xxx

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  15. Such a clever card Cara, great design too ;) hugs Viv xx

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  16. This is simply amazing. Please keep and send to me for my birthday so I can display it in my craft room. I now want a Melon dress! Cx

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  17. wow!
    amazing card with so special details!

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  18. Wow, just wow! I now have a serious urge to 'melonise' something!!

    Sharon
    x

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  19. Genius...what a fabulous idea and result! Love the gloss of those 'seeds' too.
    Thanks so much for sharing with us at Less is More, Anita x

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  20. Wow, how clever is this! Coloured beautifully too, she's looks good enough to eat!

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