I've been coloring outside the lines again. Sometimes you want to color, but you don't want to have to think too hard about it.
I recently purchased this Pretty Peonies background stamp from Simon Says Stamp. It's such a lovely background, and there are so many different ways you can use it, but for it's first outing, I thought coloring the negative spaces would be a great way to really show off the flowers themselves and all the detail in them.
I've used this technique before after creating a random stamped background on this card. That time I used just a single color, this time I thought I would try adding a little more depth by using two colors (R37 and R39), using the darker color around the edges of the images.
I also used my C3 marker to lightly color over some of the detailed lines in the images to add just a little bit of emphasis and depth.
After spending all that time coloring the background, I didn't want to cover it up too much, so opted for a simple sentiment from an older Studio Calico set.
Hope your August is going well. We're less than two weeks from the start of school, so it's starting to get a little crazy here!
