For three challenges today, the Mixed Media for showers or flowers, and the Free For All to keep it cas with little layering, and U for umbrella Ways to use it challenge.
This set (and the butterfly) are my favorite Tim Holtz images. It started off mostly gray and monochromatic and then I thought of all of the prettier things some rain brings and added some color with the flowers.
Started with a vintage sheet music page and painted with gesso. Stamped umbrella and then added some brushos and Payne's Gray watercolor for rainy skies. Silver embossed clock from the same set and shaded with SU chalks. Stamped sentiment and SU Simply Soft flowers that were colored with Prismacolor pencils. Inked edges first with Old Paper and then Weathered Wood, both by Tim Holtz. Did a lot of little dots on image, I was so captivated by some of the pointillist paintings that I saw recently.
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Fri, May 05, 2017 @ 3:03 PM
This rainstorm may have started violently but it sure did perk up those flowers - It took my eyes a few seconds to focus on the fact of the subtly stamped music running throughout the bg Beautiful use of one of my very favorite sets!
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Fri, May 05, 2017 @ 7:02 PM
Thanks so much for the description of the process of putting together this beautiful card! I love all the color at the top of the card. It makes it look kind of like the imagination mentioned in the sentiment!
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Sat, May 06, 2017 @ 5:15 AM
WOW!! This is really pretty I love this collage and the colors you used!!!
------------------------------ 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