The time frame for Altenew’s Pair-a-Flower contest is narrowing, and I’ve had an idea for it for several weeks. Here are the details about the contest: Challenge: Create a project with any Altenew floral design. Pair it with the same flower in real life or a similar floral design and photograph the two side-by-side. My initial idea was to take a photo of a coneflower at the garden center since none of mine came back this year, but when I was there on Saturday, I found this bright orange coneflower and brought it home. Hopefully, it will thrive along our new fence.
There are actually multiple blooms, but I focused this photo on just one bloom as a reference for coloring the Altenew: “Build-a-Flower: Coneflower.” Here’s the card by itself. It was colored with Copic markers and detail added using my Lyra Rembrandt colored pencils. I’ve had this set for years and years and rarely think to use it. Today neither the Polychromos or the Prisma colored pencils sets had a dark enough orange pencil. I do have a more extensive set of the Lyra’s and should remember to use it more often.
I added some dimension between each of the layers, using dimensional tape for some and extra layers of cardstock under the patterned paper square..
Here’s the photo of the card and the flower together which I’ll be posting on the Altenew Contest site.
Mission accomplished – what a great pairing. Hopefully the real coneflower will thrive in your garden.
Beautiful combo of real and colored! I like this color coneflower. Most of the ones in our neighborhood are the deep pink variety.
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