Follow Your Bliss…

Good morning!

I made this card for this week’s color challenge on SCS. As luck would have it, it also qualifies for Julia’s WT challenge this week, as well!!

Truth be told, I am not satisfied with this card, but I wanted to share it with you anyway. I have found that many times, a design that I am not pleased with, seems to appeal to others. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, eh?

This is a rather straightforward design. Focal image was stamped in Pallette burnt umber ink on PaperTrey white, and watercolored with caribbean and garden green. I shaded the image using the light and dark grey watercolor crayons for depth. It’s mounted on a panel of choc chip, and I added a few random faux stitches Shel9999 style

The background is simply the watercolor vine jumbo wheel that was rolled on the diagonal. I prefer to use my wheels on the diagonal for 2 reasons:

• the images seem to “flow” better together, and you can’t see the wheeling pattern.
• it’s much easier to “line up” the rows as you are wheeling them, because the diagonal is more forgiving than a straight line.

I stamped the floral bg on PaperTrey white using caribbean ink, and matted it with caribbean cardstock. I tied a piece of the brown polka dot May Arts ribbon across this panel, and attached it to the cardfront. I attached the focal image on dimensionals, and highlighted the flowers with Stickles (naturally, LOL!) The layout was inspired from an issue of the Joy of Cardmaking magazine.

I stamped the PaperTrey sentiment on a piece of garden green scrap in craft white ink. I heat embossed it with detail white ep, and then punched it out with the SU! small oval punch. I adhered it to the lower right corner, outlined it with the fine tip of the choc chip marker, then added a few random stitches to coordinate with the focal image.

Have a great day today, and thanks for stopping by!