This week Kia has chosen the Macy's department store and their Pinterest boards for the inspiration site. I Started out looking at dresses thinking I would find bigger patterns to look at then say Tops and then I came across this Pink & Purple floral dress really quickly and stopped looking because, earlier this week Kia had shared this floral watercoloring tutorial where I had started this peony flower. So, I added a little more paint to that and then cut it out with scissors. After I cut it out I decided I needed more flowers to create something more like the dress,
So I cut an A6 Panel of Arches cold press and stamped one of the other Peonies and two of the leaf stems from that same Ellen Hutson mondo Peony set and started painting them. I had placed this in a Misti to make sure I was leaving enough space around the edges.
First layers of paints, I did keep the same Morning Mist ink for the bloom then switched to Memento Pistachio for the leaves. This is first layer of paints. I did want to keep it more subtle since it would be in the background. Started adding some colors to the background so it was not just white and then I did add some darker to the lower right corner. at this point I started thinking I will need an Anniversary card next month for hubs parents and this might work.
Even though there is some purples in this, its not nearly as purple/pink as the dress so, I popped up the cut out bloom on foam dots and made the card base be a really rich deep shade of purple.
With the thought of having this become an Anniversary card I stamped this sentiment off on some neenah scraps for the inside from the Altenew Say it with love set and this Cherish today on a Arches scrap for the front. I think the Cherish stamp is an old Hero Arts one that I unmounted but, this is one of those your guess is as good as mine deals. ( also possibly SU)About the only time I can find lately to shoot on top of the dresser with a camera is late in the day and the sun comes right through that west facing window so, the colors are a little off here but, you get the gist of it I am guessing. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.