May Flower-Lilly of the Valley

Hello Friends.

Edited to add: Mystery solved!  When I mentioned it to DH, he remembered
putting a different flower in the vase since the lily of the valley was past it's prime.
We have wood hyacinths in the yard and I didn't realize they were still blooming
and that he had brought a blossom in.

I can't believe the month is over already!
I barely got my flower of the month done.

This time I chose to stamp on a piece of textured Crumb Cake cardstock

and color with Prismacolor pencils.

I stamped in the middle of the piece with Crumb Cake ink,

then masked that flower and stamped another on each side.

I used Terpenoid with a cosmetic swab (the kind with a pointed end)

to blend the coloring.

We have a flower bed that has lily of the valley growing in it.

Our flowers bloomed in April this year.

I picked a small bouquet that scented the whole house.

Some of the blooms opened in an unusual way, at least to me.

See those at the top of the bouquet?

Instead of little bells that turned brown, some of the flowers opened

up like other lilies.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Year of Flowers Collection, Beautiful Butterflies (PTI)

Ink:   Crumb Cake (SU)

Paper:   Crumb Cake, Crumb Cake Textured, Naturals White (SU)

Other:  Prismacolor Pencils, Turpenoid, Make Up Swabs, Rectangular Peek-a-boo Window die (MFT)

Coloring with Prismacolor Pencils

Ten lovely ladies from the Creative Arts group joined me today for a hands on lesson with Prismacolor pencils. If you read my blog of March 9th, you will remember that my very artistic friend, Jean gave us a demonstration of the art of drawing and coloring with this medium.

Today, we got to try it for ourselves. Actually, Jean gave me a private lesson a couple of weeks ago. (It takes me longer than most people to learn a new technique!) My first attempt was awful! Today everyone did much better with their first try!

This was actually my second attempt. It was a big improvement from the first time, but still way behind Jean's original.

I was helping the ladies this morning so I didn't get to "paint" until this afternoon. This time I tried a rose. If practice makes perfect, I have a long ways to go! It did go faster and I was quite pleased with the results. I'll show it to you soon.

I didn't write down the colors I used. I'll try to do better on that. The card is Pretty in Pink embossed with the BIG GUY and the SU Perfect Details Texturz Plate. The picture is matted with Whisper White.

I think that I'll work more with this technique. I'm not good at seeing the shading. I'm a person that doesn't see the trees for the forest. Maybe this will readjust my brain a bit so I can see things differently. They say that's good for keeping Alzheimer's Disease at bay. It beats medication!

Thanks for stopping in today. Come back soon.
Bonnie

Today I met with the Creative Arts group of the Cary Newcomers Club and not only learned how to "paint" with Prismacolor pencils but made a new and very creative friend. She demonstrated how she creates wonderful pictures. It is amazing that they are "painted" with colored pencils! She has some really neat tricks up her sleeve (and in her makeup bag) and she graciously had made prints of her work for us to make a card with.

This is the card I made. It was hard to choose which print to use.

All I did was tear the edges, mat the picture and use the paper piercer & mat pack to outline the design.


Not only is the rose painted beautifully, but the background is gorgeous! Here is a close up. Can you believe it was done with colored pencils?

Jean doesn't think she is an artist. What do you think? I hope I can remember some of her tricks. If I can't, I will just have to pester her to get together again...and again...and again.

'Til next time, happy stampin', or drawing, or tracing or coloring or anything that you enjoy doing.

Bonnie