Papertrey Ink September Blog Hop

Its been a little while since I've been able to participate in a PTI blog hop.  I LOVED the colors and striped pattern in the inspiration photo this month.  I had it in mind to recreate the stripes and mitre the corners of the stripes and oh so much that would have been A LOT of work.  Instead I ended up going more simple, inspired by the colors and with an homage to the stripes

I did a little rock-n-roll using Summer Sunrise and Melon Berry for the leaves and a rock-n-roll shading technique using aqua mist on the acorns (rock-n-roll shading is doing the rock-n-roll technique with just 1 color and stamping off once to get the lighter version of the ink).  I got a lot of compliments on my scribbled aqua mist acorns a while back so I made aqua acorns again.  I'm nothing if not a creature of habit :)

I put in a couple of red stripes to carry the striped theme over and added the large poppy button for balance.

Thanks for stopping by!