Hello! Our latest challenge is up on the Seize The Birthday blog. Linda is hosting, and she's challenging us to Make A Spring Garden.
I went a bit impressionist with this one, because I had a mop-up panel that was calling to me.
All I could see were flowers and leaves. I used the Altenew Sketchy floral oversized stamp, and to be honest, it looked a complete mess, because there was no depth. So I added shading around the flowers and leaves with coloured pencils, and kept going till I got more definition around the edges.
You can see where I used it in a similar way to make this card. I do love it when I can make use of a mop-up panel!
Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog to see what sort of spring garden the rest of the design team and our Surprise Party Guests have created, and join in the fun. You can always play along with our Anything Goes theme if you prefer.
See you in the gallery!
LOVE this! Gorgeous watercolour background and very clever to add shading!
ReplyDeleteI could not pull this off so well. Sigh, I wish I could. So very pretty!
ReplyDeleteAh! So a panel that looked like that ended up like this!?! Wow!! Very clever and impressive, Shirley! Great card!
ReplyDeleteShirley, love this background and how you created your flowers around it. Very pretty card. Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful mop up background that works perfectly for this large flower arrangement! Your pencil highlights make it stand out beautifully!
ReplyDeleteI'd be making loads more of these mop up panels Shirley, gorgeous artsy card, Cathy x
ReplyDeleteYour flowers are lovely on the "mop up panel" Shirley. Glad you were able to use it for you beautiful card.
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