Thursday, June 27, 2019

Lifetime of Happiness - PDO

Hi friends!  If you haven't gone over to check out the Polka Dot Orchard Etsy store, you should head HERE right now!  They have released several brand new digital stamp sets.  Today I'm sharing one of the images and a sentiment from the Lifetime of Happiness set.



I don't have any in progress pictures for you but there aren't a lot of steps involved.  Just lots of coloring.  My medium of choice this time was Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers.  I'm a huge fan of purple so that helped me decide what colors to use!

Before I printed it out, I added a couple leaves to fill out the flower cluster.  Then I printed it onto Bristol cardstock.  The flower petals are colored with a combination of Dark Pink and Deep Violet.  I added the color in the places I wanted the deepest shadows.  I then used a water brush to spread out the color.  I used varying amounts of pink and violet in order to keep the colors from being too uniform.  For the flower centers I used Yellow, Yellow Green, Orange and May Green

The leaves were colored with a combination of Light Green and Olive Green.  Again, I used the water brush to spread out the color.  Once I was certain the colors were dry, I went around the outside of the images with Light Gray.  I used a generous amount of water with the water brush to spread it out.  After it was dry, I cut the panel out with a stitched rectangle die from Lawn Fawn.  I added foam tape to the back of the panel and adhered it to a white, A2 sized card base.  The card base is made out of Neenah 110lb Solar White cardstock.

I printed the sentiment out onto Neenah cardstock as well.  I trimmed it down and glued it onto a piece of green cardstock.  Then I trimmed it down to be a very thin border around the sentiment.  I added foam tape to this as well before glueing it down.

For the final touches, I added dots of Magenta Stickles, Hydrangea Liquid Pearls and Bottle Green Nuvo drops.



I really encourage you to stop by the Polka Dot Orchard store today!

Toodles!
~Kristina

Supplies used:

Neenah Solar White
Neenah Solar White
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Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue
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SBC | EH
Therm O Web Foam Tape
Therm O Web Foam Tape
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SBC | EH
Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper
Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper
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EH
Hydrangea Liquid Pearls
Hydrangea Liquid Pearls
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SBC
Light Gray 91 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
Light Gray 91 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
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EH
Lifetime of Happiness - Polka Dot Orchard digi stamp
Lifetime of Happiness - Polka Dot Orchard digi stamp
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PDO
Bottle Green Nuvo Drops
Bottle Green Nuvo Drops
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SBC | EH
Magenta Stickles
Magenta Stickles
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Yellow 50 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
Yellow 50 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
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EH
Orange 70 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
Orange 70 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
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EH
Dark Pink 27 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
Dark Pink 27 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
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EH
Yellow Green 53 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
Yellow Green 53 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
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EH
Lt. Green 41 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
Lt. Green 41 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
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EH
May Green 47 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
May Green 47 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
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EH
Olive Green 43 Zig Clean Color Real Brush
Olive Green 43 Zig Clean Color Real Brush
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EH
Deep Violet 84 Zig Clean Color Real Brush
Deep Violet 84 Zig Clean Color Real Brush
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EH
Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush - Fine Brush
Ranger Tim Holtz Water Brush - Fine Brush
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EH

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