Lydia challenged us to watercolor free form flowers. It was indeed a challenge!! Watched the tutorials and tried a couple of different methods, a couple of different times. Have a couple of practice sheets discards and finally got one that would pass!!
I used the cone flower tutorial and added some bachelor buttons using a fan brush. I made the frame using Karen Dunbrook's Woodgrain Tutorial. Added blue twine and an itty bitty birthday tag to complete. TFL
Date: Friday, April 29, 2016 GMT Views: 1420
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Registered: August 15, 2007 Location: Twin Cities MN Posts: 50355
Fri, Apr 29, 2016 @ 7:49 PM
Your title is making me laugh...we all had several tries on this one I think. I love how your flowers turned out...really cool to use a fan brush for the blue ones. And I love the wood grain bg...I need to give that a try. Lovely card Carla ;)
Carla, my birthday is coming up in a few weeks; I LOVE coneflowers, but what I would love even more is seeing this in my mailbox!
Absolutely gorgeous!
ETA 5-13-16: Carla, it is even more beautiful in person! I will treasure this always! You have certainly given me a birthday gift to remember!
------------------------------ Linda E
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Sat, Apr 30, 2016 @ 4:16 AM
This is astonishing and amazing and beautiful and perfect!!!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6