Shelly's Art: harvest berries

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Thursday, February 25, 2016

By Shelly

In: blog hop, harvest berries, nostalgic buttons, papertrey ink, sympathy, the sweet life

17 comments

Papertrey Ink Februrary Blog Hop Challenge

Above is the photo we must draw inspiration from in order to make a project to complete the latest PTI blog hop challenge. I loved the soft pink rose and the different shade of green so that was my color focus.

I also used a wonderful sketch from design team Kay Miller posted here in the December 2015 newsletter. I just loved that plate in the photo as it kind of grounded the whole collection of elements and brought everything together so I that is why I sought out a sketch with a circle.

Here is my card:

I decided to instead of cutting out a circle to stitch one using embroidery floss. After looking at this photo though I probably should have used a larger circle. I still love the effect and hopefully will remember to do stitching on my cards more in the future. In order to get a very soft rose I stamped it in my lightest three pinks.
Layer 1 PTI Sweet Blush
Layer 2 Momento Angel Pink
Layer 3 PTI Lovely Lady.
I stamped each of these colors twice so I would get some contrast between the layers.
I added the harvest berry leaves in the two colors of green shown in the photo. To finish off the floral arrangement I added little 3 flower clusters which are actually part of a nostalgic button stamp set. I heat embossed them in white. I used two colors of sharpie fine line markers to draw in the stems. First a green but then I wrote over them in grey to tone down the bright green color a bit since the flower stems are in the background. It's hard to tell in the photo but I added a small pink dot in the center of each flower with a sparkly Copic glitter marker. The largest flower is popped up for dimension. Thanks to my MISTI I did 5 of these cards in no time. I think the stitching took longer than the stamping!

Supplies listed and linked below:
PTI=Papertrey Ink