ColorMe

 

Today I decided to tackle a stash buster challenge - to use up some ColorMe products from HOTP.  The pattern on these products is designed to behave like an embossed resist - letting you fairly easily color in the pattern with colors of your choosing.  What I have is from years ago and working on these reminded me of why I haven't used it much!  Truthfully, though, what made it most frustrating to work with these was less the fault of the ColorMe, and more the fact that for some reason, none of my water brushes will let water through any more!  

Card #1: (above) - To color this first one I used Gelatos.  I colored them on my craft mat and picked them up with a wet brush to color in the design.  These are designed to be used on 5" x 6 1/2" cards.  My card blanks are 5" x 7", but this design worked well.  I fussy cut the bottom off the design and then it fit centered on my card front nicely.  They included sentiment pieces, so I colored one and then matted it on white card stock that had been die cut with one of Spellbinders Fancy Tags dies.

Inside:

 

Figuring out what to do on the inside was a bit challenging since I didn't have similar paper.  I found some scraps in similar colors and created a border.  They DID have a little rose on the sentiment page that I colored and added here.

Card #2:

 

This time I used Inktense pencils with my water brush - much easier to control!  Again I colored a coordinating sentiment and matted it on a Spellbinders Fancy Tags die cut piece of white card stock.  However, this time I decided to create an A2 sized card.  That meant that I cut off part of the ColorMe - which gave me something for the inside of the card!  I used a black Sharpie to color the top and bottom edges, and added a turquoise sticker border along each outside edge.  Then I added some little butterfly stickers, and some Jewel Dazzles to complete the look.

Inside:

 

Inside I simply added a strip from the leftover piece to create a coordinating border - again using a black sharpie top and bottom.