Inspired by {Annie Cloth}

 This week Amy has shared with us the Annie Cloth site & Pinterest boards where I found this top here.

 

 I love the drama of the colors and the floral aspect so, I set about trying to recreate that. I would totally wear that if I came across it in a store in person. as a disclaimer I have never shopped at Annie Cloth. I have that whole if it looks too good to be true thought process in the back of my mind when I see the price tags. For my card I started with a scrap of Arches 100% watercolor paper and added a wash of blues to it. When that dried I stamped the Hero Arts Silhouette background flowers stamp with the top of the stamp at the bottom of the panel with some Distress Oxide bundled sage ink. I knew that this would eventually bleed into the paint so it would give the panel a no line look ( I hoped) at this point I decided to tape off the edge of the panel and added more paint on and off over several days. and at some point I decided to re-view the top and I had to laugh at my self, it has a green sky and a blue ground. It's ok I think I still have the vibe that it has and I did finish it.

So when I removed the tape I decided to add a little bit of white gel pen to the mostly red/orange blooms and trimmed it down to really close to the taped edge as there was a little bit of the first layer of paint and ink on the out side edge its turned out kind of interesting to me rather than being stark white. 

I did stamp this Penny Black sentiment to the inside panel as I have a bunch of family birthdays this coming week and a half. I finished the card off with adding a layer of foam tape to the painted panel.

Which popped it up over the bazzill base. I knew that when I started this that Lee has a VSN challenge to do a "rainbow" of colors on something. and I told my self about the only thing I could think of that would use all the rainbow colors without being just a rainbow on the card front was to do something floral. So, I am going to tag this for that challenge too. It's 6" square in real life. You can find this challenge here to play along with us. Thanks for stopping by.