Garden Party is this week's free image at Delightful Inspiration . It's a progressive challenge and each week you play along, you get another free image.
I decided this would be a great image to try a variety of techniques. I was having such a fun time that I wound up making 5 different cards with the same image. I needed to replenish my stash of cards I have on hand, anyway. LOL
For my third card using this sweet digital scene I painted it with tube watercolors. I mixed the colors I wanted to use on a plastic palette. I accidently got too much water on the brush while painting the petals on the flowers and blotted it off with a piece of paper towel. I discovered that it left a pattern behind from the quilting on the paper towel and liked the way it looked. So I deliberately did the same thing to the rest of the flowers and leaves.
After painting, I did some fussy cutting and cut out the scene using a craft knife for the more intricate parts and cut out the bee separately. For the card background, I sponged a sky using a scalloped circle punched mask and SU inks. Then I popped up the scene and bee on the sky and redrew in the bee's trail. Used Stickles on the flower centers and bee's wings. Used pink Liquid Pearls on the mice's noses. Sponged Taken With Teal around the edges of the sky.
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 GMT Views: 708
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Registered: June 4, 2009 Location: Deatsville, Alabama Posts: 83926
Fri, Apr 15, 2011 @ 9:48 AM
Wow - cool paint texture with the paper towel. This is a cute image and your flowers and sky are really great! I love the details you described in your narrative.
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Registered: June 23, 2008 Location: da U.P. - Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula Posts: 14987
Sat, Apr 16, 2011 @ 6:24 AM
Fabulous accident inspired technique Sue! It, along with your fussy cutting, really adds dimension to your flowers. Love your sponged sky too! Hope you haven't had to send these garden party cards before our next stamping group... I love for you to bring them to show and tell. ;-)
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