F4A470 = using one's birth month, use the gemstone color for that month plus one other color.
My birthday is in August...and many of my friends' birthdays are too. I sketched a gladiolus stalk and then watercolored it. It is the flower for August birthdays. The background was done with a stencil and Shimmery Goodness which has a highly pearl sheen. This card will be for one of those August babies.
Date: Friday, February 22, 2019 GMT Views: 962
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Registered: March 30, 2008 Location: Somewhere between the Shire & Mordor! Posts: 4642
Fri, Feb 22, 2019 @ 4:21 AM
GORGEOUS WORK!!!! AND BRAVO for hand sketching your own image! ;) SOMEONE WILL BE SO HAPPY receiving this!!! JUST GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) This looks SO PROFESSIONAL!!!
Registered: November 20, 2007 Location: Northumberland, UK Posts: 13285
Fri, Feb 22, 2019 @ 4:36 AM
Your gladiolus sketch is absolutely gorgeous and I love the soft green and pearly goodness of the background - lovely card, whatever month a birthday falls!
Registered: February 27, 2007 Location: LaCrosse, Wisconsin Posts: 39472
Fri, Feb 22, 2019 @ 5:03 AM
oh gosh, i'll send you my address. another August baby. I don't know many with that month but now I do. Happy half birthday, as Dawn said to me. This is gorgeous, you paint beautifully. don't you love all the colors glads come in?
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Registered: June 29, 2004 Location: Sugar Land. Texas Posts: 79575
Fri, Feb 22, 2019 @ 5:46 AM
Another August friend. Wow, this card is gorgeous and your gladiola is so perfected water colored. Into my favorites.
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Registered: November 3, 2005 Location: Fairport Harbor, OH-IO, Lake Erie shoreline Posts: 60152
Fri, Feb 22, 2019 @ 6:22 AM
Sallie your card makes me wish I was an August birthday! What a beauty and your sketching is spot on. I have glads in my flowerbed. I love this - gorgeous colors roo.
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Registered: December 4, 2010 Location: Minnesota Posts: 16610
Fri, Feb 22, 2019 @ 9:09 AM
Sallie, this is so stunning and just terrific for an August birthday! I sure do admire your sketching and water coloring skills. What a fantastic background you have made here to showcase your stunning gladiola flower by. ~Karen.
Registered: April 1, 2012 Location: Rogers, AR Posts: 28907
Fri, Feb 22, 2019 @ 9:36 AM
This is gorgeous from top to bottom!!!
------------------------------ 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