April 2018 Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

It’s the 25th of April, and time for the April blog hop at Papertrey Ink. Here’s the inspiration piece:

I only own one tea cup stamp set from Papertrey, and it didn’t speak to me this month, so I looked for inspiration at the colors and the beautiful flowers. That took me to an old favorite, one that hasn’t been used in awhile, “Delightful Dahlias.” I started by arranging two of the flowers and leaves and masked and stamped them on Bristol paper with Versamark ink, stopping to emboss each one in gold (from the edge of the teacups in the painting). Then I painted them with a combination of Zig Watercolor pens and SAI watercolor pens from Japan that were a gift two or three years ago. 

In looking at the inspiration piece again today, I see that the pink I chose isn’t quite the same tone as those on the teacups. I should have paid better attention and gone to my other watercolors to find the “right” pink. Nonetheless, I like the pink I chose with the aqua, so there it is. 

After embossing the sentiment (from another much older set, Fillable Frames #4), I die cut the piece with a stitched rectangle, and mounted it on a card of Soft Stone. I added some gold sequins from a Simon Says mix, “Sparkle and Shine.”

I’m also linking up with the Less is More challenge this week, “Bring Something Back.” This card brought back two stamps sets that have been in my collection for a long time.

 And unusually, I’m linking up to a third challenge, the Simon Says “Work It Wednesday” which is celebrating mothers.