Good morning! Today I have an 8" x 10" shadow-box framed piece to share, created with Power Poppy's new Flowering Branches digistamp. It's a beautiful image, and I had totally intended to create a card with it. I printed it out a little large and thought I'd figure out what I was going to crop off before I colored it. But I just couldn't make myself crop that image! That's how it ended up being a framed piece. :-)
In addition to the crabapple tree image, there are also sentiments with the Flowering Branches set for mothers and grandmothers. (I ended up using a sentiment from the Good Thinking: Renewal stamp set.)
I took stepped out pictures as I colored yesterday; just click on each one to see a full-sized version. Above are the leaves and branches. (Please ignore the pencil lines; I had originally put those in to let myself know where to color since I had planned to crop the image. They were light enough that they erased easily when I changed my mind about cropping the image.)
Shown here are the crabapples and the blossoms. I added sky later, after I took these pictures.
In case you'd rather have a finished image with ALL of the colors listed on the same image, above is my COPIC Color Map for this Flowering Branches image.
I used a Spellbinders Grand Ovals die template to cut my Melissa Frances papers for a mat layer, and then I used an evidently retired Grand Decorative Ovals to cut a white lacy trim layer. The sentiment is cut with a Nested Lacey Pennants banner. I dyed white seam binding with a Copic V12 reinker to coordinate with the patterned paper. This was a great image to color. Now I need to figure out where to hang it! I hope you get a chance to see what the other Power Poppy Instant Gardeners did with this image--I was impressed! :-)
Jennifer Dove
Rhea Weigand
Broni Holcombe
Cheryl Scrivens
Danielle Kennedy
Marcella Hawley
Thanks for visiting,
