the smallest blessings....

JustRite Stampers' challenge this week (#052) was a color combo... I'll confess that when I saw the list of colors, my internet wasn't working, so I interepreted "violet blue" a little more purple than the sample turned out to be after it finally opened up... Ack! Oh well. I used a stamp from the "My Garden" round set for my flower border - stamped it once then masked and stamped on either side, rotating the image a little. The flowers are watercolored using reinkers, and I added a little more shading with a Sepia pencil when the piece was dry. I colored over all the flowers and stems with a Glaze pen, then stamped over with an inked-and-misted damask background stamp (I overmisted it though, so you can't really tell... oops again!). After the panel was dry, I stamped the image over the piece again, cut around a few of the flower petals and embossed them from the back, then added Lemon Flower Soft to the centers. The sentiment is from an oval set called "the Greatest Joy."

On to another busy week! yet, thinking of 'small blessings'... I'm so grateful for the sense of peace I have in the midst of the busies... for teamwork and friendship... for the power to change, and for new opportunities. God's good. :)

Thanks for visiting today!!