Monday, July 11, 2016

Ampersand Blooms


As the heat index rises here in Wisconsin, many of my early summer blooms have come and gone. Among my favorites were the pale pink peonies. I started working more towards a perennial garden a few years back and eventually want a garden that blooms spring through late fall.



I was inspired by the beautiful picture for the July Altenew Inspiration Challenge. Those bright, pink, bold blooms with the spots of yellow... I stamped and masked and stamped the large bloom from Beautiful Day with red ink onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock, and then masked and stamped in green the leaves from the same set. I watercolored them with Zig Markers, added a few splatters and mounted the panel to a white cardstock base after the painting was dry. I did border the image with some black and white strip images to tie in my sentiment.

18 comments:

  1. Holy cow Karen. This card is jaw dropping stunning! So, so amazing.

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  2. Simply gorgeous, Karen. A real show stopper!

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  3. This is STUNNING, Karen! The dreamy flowers and leaves look spectacular with the crisp pops of black and white! Well done :)

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  4. Hi Karen! Playing catch up after our vacation!! I took a trip back through your blog and see I missed a whole lot of prettiness!! LOVE your shades of red card and today's is just beautiful!! Missed you ;)

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  5. blow my mind gorgeous.. I love this..

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  6. Just had to pin it Karen, your flowers and your card are brilliant!

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  7. Gorgeous! Wish I could grow peonies... just too darn hot here!

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  8. So, so pretty, Karen! What a beautiful take on the inspiration photo!

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  9. Oh, this is gorgeous, Karen! I love it!

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  10. This is gorgeous Karen!! I mean absolute perfection!!

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  11. Such a LOVELY watercolor piece! Congratulations on the Altenew win:)))

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  12. I really love this! I need to use Bristol with my Zig markers - they've have blended so well for you here. Wondering if paper choice is important with the Zigs.

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