Tuesday 28 May 2013

I painted this rose

Hello sweet bloggers,
I haven't blogged for almost a week now - life seemed to have got in the way.
I will certainly come and visit you all in a bit.

Meanwhile here is my card to show you which I have made after a break. The background stamp is from Hero Arts and I have used TH Victorian velvet while the card stock has been sponged with TH peeled paint. The rose was painted directly on to water colour paper with Aleeza's Early Learning Centre water colours during our painting hour together. I went over it with a metallic gel crayon from Paper Chase - which makes it sparkle in real life. I cut out the rose and mounted it on foam tape to give it a raised appearance. The leaves have a story to tell - I found them abandoned by the poolside in our complex and the minute I saw them my heart wanted to bring them home. I seem to like this card and other moments not so am not quite sure but Aleeza certainly does like it and that makes me happy.


I will enter this card in the following challenges:
http://www.cardsinenvy.blogspot.com/ - make your own background

Off to do my regular visits now.
Love,
Monica 

13 comments:

jimlynn said...

Monica, the leaves are so pretty with that beautiful rose! Great find! Love your pretty card too.
Hope you had a good break.
Lynn

McCrafty's Cards said...

the rose is beautiful Monica gorgeous card.
Kevin xx

Kavitha Vadhri said...

lovely monica, beautiful colors,the leaves dries right??? its the real one

Cathy said...

Lovely card Monica, love the pretty background against the purple flower :) Cathy x

sara said...

pretty card, glad your ok.

Merry said...

This is lovely Monica, love how the rose was moved.

Laura said...

Monica,What a beautiful card!! Your coloring is Fantastic!! TFS

Sandy Trefger said...

Beautiful rose and background! Thanks for sharing with us at Cards in Envy!

Marilyn's Cricut Crafts said...

Beautiful job on your card! Love the background and the big rose. Thank you for sharing your card with us at Cards in Envy! ~ Marilyn

Unknown said...

What a fabulous card, and I love that you shared how you found your leaves, I would've picked them up and found something special to do with them too! Thanks for playing along at Cards in Envy.

Skye said...

A fabulous card. I love the rose image and your special leaves, they work so well against your pretty background

1CardCreator said...

Beautiful card and the leaves really make the rose pop! ~Diane

Meihsia Liu said...

This is such a lovely card! The rose is very beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing at Make It Monday. ^_^