Why hello there on Alternate Primaries Sunday! (ha!) It must be Ellen Hutson release day, right? That’s the one Sunday a month you get some extra creativity from me!
I’m calling this Alternate Primaries Sunday because I wanted to see what I could do with a not-as-typical primary color combo – pink, yellow, and teal instead of red, yellow and blue. I kinda like it!

I’m using Copic airbrush to create these, but you can certainly do inking or watercolor or other mediums to try something like this. Different shades of each of those colors can generate even more options for colorways!
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With my Be the Change card with butterflies, I stamped in Distress Oxides, airbrushed, trimmed, glued, and added white pen. (That sounds like a very typical routine for me on a card!)

Why not a Christmas card in this comobination? The In the Weeds set will be fun to color as flowers, but here it’s a snow-covered garden. It came out soft and subtle…and gave me lots of places to add my white pen.

The Up in the Air set has a dirigible to color, as well as tress – but I made the trees silhouettes and added a house so the silhouette people have a place to live. (Yes every scene has a story!) Stay tuned later this month for a Christmas card on Ellen’s blog that I made with this set – way fun, no airbrushing just inking!

And gimme something to put candy in and I am one happy camper! I’ll be making these for one of my Toastmasters club meetings coming up soon. Maybe Thanksgiving treats in warm fall colors, wouldn’t that be pretty?


- Be The Change by Brandi Kincaid, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- Be the Change By Brandi Kincaid, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies
- Bon Bon Box, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies
- Tis the Season, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- That Thing You Did, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- Small Sayings, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- Mini Tags, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies
- In the Weeds by Brandi Kincaid, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- In the Weeds By Brandi Kincaid, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies
- Up in the Air by Brandi Kincaid, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- Up in the Air By Brandi Kincaid, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies
- Clouds, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies
Airbrush and other supplies: - Uniball Signo White Pen
- ABS 3
- Compressor
- Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers
- Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry
- Foam Mounting Tape
- Tape Runner
The butterfly card is beautiful… really like the color combo.
Wow, those butterflies are fantastic! You blew me away.
Gorgeous projects! I love the color combinations that you used! The butterfly card is absolutely beautiful!
Love your cards. Who says Christmas must be red and green?
Oh may, I LOVE all your fabulous coloring!
I’m liking these alternate primaries! I like your non-traditional Christmas card. I can’t wait to see what you do with Up in the Air!
The colors are so stunning!
Such amazing ink blending!
Your cards are so colorful and creative! I love them all!
Love your coloring!
Wow–these are so pretty and colorful!
Gorgeous cards Sandy and I love these alternate primaries together. So pretty and fun and really show off this great release!
Love the rich palettes on these gorgeous cards, the doodling adds to the awesome factor.
Bold, bright colors. Fantastic card.
Love the snow on the
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As inspiring as ever! And yes, silhouette people need a place to live too 🙂
Such wonderful colors, Sandy! Beautiful cards all around, but I really love the snow-dusted flowers!!
Oh wow, so much color! Looove them all!
Beautiful cards Sandy. I love the bright colors. Those butterflies are gorgeous — definitely one of my favorites from this wonderful release.
Air brushing intimidates me so much, Sandy! But, yours is simply gorgeous and I love the cards you made with the new EBE release!!
Love the new combo of colors, Sandy! And the tips on the white gel pen. Fun new release♥️
Pink – yellow – teal – what a lovely combo of colors – great inspiration Sandy 🙂
Your color palette is beautiful! And I’ve always admired your air brushing. Thanks for sharing!