Papertrey July Blog Hop Challenge

Something about the inspiration photo for the Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop Challenge made me think of my favorite Impressionist painters.

The soft colors, the blurred edges and that beautiful bouquet:

I decided to create my own impressionist style watercolor background:

First I die cut a panel using the PTI Library Card Tag die. It took many tags and tries and a good amount of time to finally get a color profile I was happy with.

I was using my heat gun to speed the drying between color layers so much that my dear son wandered into the office to find out what I was doing. Truth is, he thought I was blowing up an air mattress and wanted to know why.

The sentiment tag is cut with one of the PTI Half & Half dies first and then taped into the Library Card Tag die to line up and cut the hole at the top of the tag.

The embossed sentiment is from the PTI Mega Mixed Messages stamp set.

Any one else still have a collection of fibers? These are Making Memories from their Beach Trims line from many moons ago.

Not only are they light & airy, they are the perfect color mix for this card.

The paper flowers are my least favorite part of the card. I did mix up the colors & style of flowers, but just feel they are a bit too rigid & formal for the dreamy quality of the rest of the design.

My bouquet is set on a green vellum doily - only the center of the doily is adhered, so there is some movement and lightness to the edges.

I'm off to check out the other links in the Blog Hop.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie