October Beautiful Blossoms Challenge : True Friendship

 Happy October!! October is one my favorite months of the year! It's fall and the smell of rain and wet earth is in the air, and hot cider or coffee and apples are on my mind. Every year, I attempt to try to make a better apple pie or Apple Cinnamon Rolls than the year before. I've got miles of room to grow and get better in those departments!

This month's challenge photo is full of beautiful reds, golds, and oranges. Marigolds are a humble flower, but they make quite the colorful, fall impact.

I stamped out Altenew's Oriental Poppy onto some water color paper, in Staz-On "Timber Brown" ink. I used my Kuratake water colors and Spectrum Noir watercolor markers to color in the flower images. I cut out the flowers using MFT's "Double Stitched Rectangle" dies, keeping the right side open for the sentiment. I chose to use Just Rite Clear stamps "Good Friends" stamp set, also stamped out in Timber Brown. Then I layered a dark brown and a peachy orange cardstock under my main image, and then added some champagne colored gems to finish my card.

I love to watercolor and just felt that these colors would be so lovely water colored in instead of using alcohol markers. I think I made the right choice. I just love how vibrant they turned out. I just played with the colors until I felt it looked right.

Thank you for joining the Beautiful Blossoms Challenge team this month. We hope our examples both inspire and challenge you to create something lovely to submit. We love to see everyone's inspirations!