Sunday, September 25, 2011

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!

7 comments:

  1. Well, it's a good 'habit', I agree!!! Awesome Fall/Thanksgiving card!!!

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  2. Great fall card, the colours are great.

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  3. love the blue acorns!! pretty!!

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  4. Beautifully stamped leaves, and I'm diggin' those happy acorns!

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  5. Rock and Rolled to perfection. I just adore the blue acorns how fab. They look truly watercolored in the most wonderful way.

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  6. Absolutely beautiful!! I love the colorful stamping and ribbon! so pretty!

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  7. Lovely fall card! The aqua acorn are fabulous!

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