{"id":16590,"date":"2014-05-28T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=16590"},"modified":"2014-06-01T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:07:17","slug":"pretty-peonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=16590","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Peonies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Julie
\n<\/a>Don’t you love these beautiful peony images? I think they are just gorgeous and I couldn’t wait to color them. For my first card, I’m using the <\/span>Unabashedly Upbeat Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0(<\/span>PPUPBEAT1<\/span>)\u00a0<\/span>on the Power Poppy Blog. I thought it was an awesome album cover but for some reason I remembered it having some lime green, so I added it. Anyway, I like the lime green added to the mix\u00a0and that’s my story\u00a0and I’m sticking to it.\u00a0<\/span>\"Julie
\n<\/a>I played around with the images for quite a while since my images are digital and I’m not really used to using digital on a regular basis. Originally, I had the peonies and the greeting all on one page, layered on a copyright free script ledger image and a gradient background I made. \u00a0You can see how it originally looked after I colored in the peonies on the image below. It looked ok, but a tad flat for me, so I printed out another background w\/ just the ledger and gradient bg, fussy cut the original Copic colored peonies and put them together like you see above. I added a die cut black frame and die cut the greeting then attached my peonies on top using some dimensional silicone.
\n<\/span>\"Julie<\/a>
\nSupplies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stamps:<\/b>\u00a0Power Poppy<\/a> – Peonies<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paper:<\/b>\u00a0X-Press It white, black<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink:<\/b>\u00a0none<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0Copic markers, Spellbinders Resplendent rectangles, matting basics A & B dies, Gimp software (for making background)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"Julie<\/a>
\nOn my second card, I used the <\/span>Sketch Challenge<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 (PPSketch1)<\/span> on Power Poppy blog. Again, since my images are digital, I printed out the peonies in a medium\/large size\u00a0and colored them with Copics. Usually I’ll just do an out of the box treatment on the image, but I wanted the peonies to be slightly elevated so I fussy cut them and attached them to a large white oval with foam tape. The green background was die cut w\/ one of the matting basics dies then embossed for a little texture. I used the Perfect Paper Crafting mini rulers to cut the 1\/16th white mat before adding it all to a die cut coral layer.\u00a0<\/span>
\n\"Julie<\/a>
\nI had a little trouble with the two horizontal bands, and I actually ended up using the negative from a die cut flag and backing it\u00a0with a textured white strip. Two Candi dots in slightly different green shades were added as a finishing touch.\u00a0\"Julie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Supplies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stamps:<\/b>\u00a0Power Poppy<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Peonies<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paper:<\/b>\u00a0X-Press It white,\u00a0coral, moss green<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ink:<\/b>\u00a0none<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accessories:<\/b>\u00a0Copic markers, Spellbinders petite ovals, labels 16, matting basics A & B dies, Candi dots, MFT fishtail banner dies, Lifestyle\/Quickutz embossing folder (Chevron set), Perfect Paper Crafting mini layers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Thanks so much for stopping by!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Julie2
\nChallenges: PPSketch1,<\/a>\u00a0PPUPBEAT1<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t you love these beautiful peony images? I think they are just gorgeous and I couldn’t wait to color them. For my first card, I’m using the Unabashedly Upbeat Challenge\u00a0(PPUPBEAT1)\u00a0on the Power Poppy Blog. I thought it was an awesome album cover but for some reason I remembered it having some lime green, so I added it. Anyway, I like the lime green added to the mix\u00a0and that’s my story\u00a0and I’m sticking to it.\u00a0 I played around with the images for quite a while since my images are digital and I’m not really used to using digital on a regular basis. Originally, I had the peonies and the greeting all on one page, layered on a copyright free script ledger image and a gradient background I made. \u00a0You can see how it originally looked after I colored in the peonies on the image below. It looked ok, but a tad flat for me, so I printed out another background w\/ just the ledger and gradient bg, fussy cut the original Copic colored peonies and put them together like you see above. I added a die cut black frame and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,36,536,33,535,537,34,14],"tags":[591,468,627,112,626,628,114,115],"class_list":["post-16590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clip-art","category-cuttlebug","category-digital-imagesbackgrounds","category-embossing","category-perfect-paper-crafting","category-power-poppy","category-nestabilities","category-scs-challenges","tag-clip-art","tag-copic","tag-digital-imagesbackgrounds","tag-flowers","tag-perfect-paper-crafting","tag-power-poppy","tag-spellbinders","tag-scs"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}