Wonderful sketch! I put a little spin on it by making my center panel square instead of oval and I also divided my background into 3 panels.
For the center leaf, I inked the image with a combination of the dk brown, burnt sienna and wild honey inks. It's cut out w/ the deckle scissors and attached to a dk brown layer. The panel behind it has the leaf stamped twice; once in the burnt sienna and once in wild honey.
On the 3 bg panels, I stamped the small script w/ alabaster onto the choc c/s, the verse onto rust (w/ the same ink) and on the mustard, I stamped the shadow leaf w/ the wild honey and the leaf vein w/ the burnt sienna. They're all edged w/ the redwood marker. I used the leaf vein again on the torn vellum piece w/ the alabaster ink. Everything's attached to a 5.5 x 4.25 ivory card.
Thanks so much for looking! Close ups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 GMT Views: 2672
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Tue, Oct 26, 2010 @ 8:55 PM
WOW Julie - this is absolutely gorgeous - breathtaking!! The colors are so rich and gorgeous and I love the 3 bg panels - this is going into my favorites just to look at!!!
------------------------------ Harriet aka hskelly
My blog: Allycatcards