I don’t have time to write a full post tonight but I’ll try and finish it asap so please reread it if you want to know more! Here are a couple of close ups.
I’m entering the Creative Loops challenge- flowers
Daffodil on vellum for Mother’s Day card
This is the Mother’s Day card I made. I embossed the daffodil on vellum and coloured and blended with layers of polychromos for the flower and Pan Pastels for the background.
and I heat embossed using 
. I then started painting from light to dark on the images. I started with the highlights on the poppy using 
.
to paint the mid and shadow areas. The lighter areas are more sparkly in real life and of course the acetate adds some shine. Although I used the mid shade behind the edges of the pearlescent areas I would have liked to achieve a more subtle blend so I’ll have to play further to see if that is possible. I used Pebeo pearlescent green and 
and used 
to get a blend of colours. I also added some 
which is difficult to see in the photos. I went for shades of red but the differences were quite subtle once they all mixed and didn’t show up as well as I’d have liked. Greens or contrasting colours may have been better. I also wonder if I used too much of everything.
. I embossed the 
onto the mat corners. I coloured the card edges with 
and then embossed metallic green card with my 
.
