Lord of the Season Blog Hop!

Hi all! My card today is for a special Gina K Designs blog hop, featuring Nina Brackets gorgeous new stamp set, Lord of the Season.

I really love this autumn wreath topiary and had some pattern paper all picked out to go with it and plans to do a pretty elaborate sketch. After I colored it, I thought the image was too pretty and needed a simple design, so I added a bow on the right and balanced that with a piece of Pure Luxury Ivory paper on the left. (more details below)

For even more ideas with Nina Brackett's Lord of the Season stamp set, visit her blog as well as the GinaK Idea Center here: Lord of the Season


GinaK Designer's joining in on the hop tonight:

Nina Brackett
Carolyn King
Cathy Tidwell
Donna Baker
Erika Martin
Jessica Fick
Emily Giovanni
Lee Murphy
Melanie Muenchinger

Theresa Momber

September's Center Stage Spotlight Team:

Janice Melton
Joy Hadden
Kay Simmons
Lori McAree

Nina's Guest DT and friends:

Crystal Bernsdorf
JenMarie Taylor
Lisa Hjulberg

First I stamped the image on Pure Luxury Ivory paper, using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I really wanted to get a lot of dimension on the tiny images in the wreath, so I first filled in the orange with my blender pen, then went around the edges with my YR07 Copic marker. Then I used my blender pen again and pull some of the orange ink out into the center of the orange.

I find that when making big color transition like this, it helps the color blend easier if I coat the area with blender solution before add the color.

For the grapes, I used the same method of going over the grape cluster with my blender pen, before adding a dot of purple using my V06 marker, then used the blender pen to smooth it out again.

For the apples I used R29, using the same process of covering the area with blender solution first.

Then used my blender pen to push some color to the center.

Same technique for the lemons, using Y17.

For the centers of the sunflowers, I did the same thing again, using E37 and my blender pen. Then for the petals, I just used Y23.

For the leaves, I used my blender pen and YR14, then added some Y17. I also used these colors for the leaf on the flower pot.

To color the flower pot, I went around all the edges with E37.

Then blended out from there with E33, working in small circles.

Added E53, again working in small circles.

Then used my colorless blender pen to soften the color transition and push some of the color away from the highlighted areas.

Used V06 around the edges of the bow.

Then added V04 and my blender pen to finish the bow. I also used C1 in a small line all the way around the image, giving it a bit of a shadow to pop off the paper.

I sponged around the edges of the paper with Vivid Straw ink.

Then sponged with Vivid Butterscotch ink.

I layered the image with Pure Luxury Black Onyx and Ivory, and used a Pure Luxury Sweet Corn card base.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great weekend!