Hello from the land of convalescence! I am 13 days post op from having my gallbladder removed. Besides popping and internal stitch on Monday, I'm doing pretty good...not great yet...but not bad. I was able to get back into the art studio today and do some 'therapy', and much to my surprise and HONOR, I was picked as a winner of the Altenew March Inspiration Challenge! I LOVE their florals and will hopefully be able to complete the Educator Program soon.
HERE is the card that won.
The Altenew April Inspiration Challenge was a challenge for me... The inspiration comes from guest host Joy D'souza and a beautiful photo she took of a red rose. Now...as a former florist, I LOVE roses! However...red roses cause me PTSD twitches. I've spent DAYS making THOUSANDS of vases of red roses for Valentine's day for YEARS. I would seriously have nightmares of the repetitive nature of the arranging, and fear of miscounting or running out...yes, I'm weird.
I think that's why this was a difficult project for me! I think I made 12 different red roses with the same colors and stencils and stamps. Some with white borders, some on red paper, some fully covered with ink. I think I made 5 different background papers, just trying to make it 'right'. I finally put this together. Its not my favorite creation, but I needed several thank you cards for sweet people that gave me get well wishes and was seeing them tonight.
I have signed up for the Altenew monthly Craft Your Life Kits and received the Garden Rose kit. I embossed the background panel with the embossing folder in the kit, after inking up the panel with 2 green inks to deepen the embossing. The rose didn't photograph well, but it is pretty in person.
After I created the rose and the leaves, I assembled the card and die cut 'thanks' from the
Script Words 2 die set out of gold mirror paper. I finished off the card with a splatter of metallic gold water color and some rhinestones I colored green with a Copic marker. I will try to make another one since I'm not really thrilled with this one.
That's it! Have a colorful day!