inkblocks: LEMON CASCADE

July 13, 2026

LEMON CASCADE

Hi friends!

Playing along with this AAA Cards Challenge, featuring Marlies’s yummy card to CASE.

Staying in the food theme Marlies chose, and taking a page from GD Maria’s book, I stayed within the fruit-y realm. I just find lemons to be so cheerful, especially in summer ☀️

THE PROCESS

To start: On the righthand side, I stamped various lemons in a bluish-gray ink. Then I stamped the wedge 3 times, and a full lemon, images on yellow card stock, fussy cut and shaded them with alcohol markers, and applied them as shown. The wedges are glued flat and the whole is on foam tape.

The sentiment was stamped in black ink. I found the card too flat looking so I stamped, colored and fussy cut a flower, and a couple leaves from green cardstock, and applied as shown. The flower has some foam tape behind the petals, and was cut almost in half for perspective purposes.

To finish: Image panel is mounted on darker, textured yellow cardstock. Still not content I added some gloss medium to the leaves and lemon wedge sections.

*TIP for the day*

Ink formulas matter immensely. When coloring images in, to avoid bleeding and smudging, I find Memento Tuxedo Black extremely helpful for use with alcohol markers and colored pencils.

For sentiments, I find Versamark Onyx Black to be juicy and pigmented enough to never need a second stamping to get great coverage. Hope this helps! :o)