Circle of Hope with Rachel Vass Designs

Hello everyone!  I'm here today sharing another midweek release from

Rachel Vass Designs:

Circle of Hope

This is another gorgeous floral design from Rachel Vass Designs.  Let me show you

how I made my card.

To begin, I sized my image and sentiment and printed it off onto copy paper.  Next

I traced it onto Strathmore Bristol card stock with a pencil.  To do this I use a light tablet that

I bought online for about $15.  It works amazingly well for tracing images.

I used the Strathmore Bristol card stock because I wanted to color this image using

my Zig Clean Color Markers with water.

Next it was time to color.

Zig marker colors used:

Pale Rose, Deep Red, Ochre, Dark Oatmeal

For the petals I colored a bit of the Deep Red at the base and then applied the

Pale Rose about 1/3 of the way up the petal.  Then I used a paintbrush and clean

water and blended it out.  I did this for all of the petals, letting each one dry before

painting the one next to it.  For the middles, I just added some dots of the

Ochre and Dark Oatmeal and then just dabbed my damp paintbrush to blend

them.  It wanted to retain a mottled look.

Once the painting was dry, I used a gold metallic gel pen and outlined all of

the flowers and centers.  I did not outline the little circles in the centers.  Then I took

some Perfect Gold Perfect Pearls, added some water and splattered my card.

 I cut my panel to 4" x 5 1/4".  I adhered this to an A2 size top folding white 

note card that was covered with gold card stock.  I printed the image again onto white card 

stock and cut out the center.  I adhered this onto my card with foam tape.  As a 

last bit of embellishment I added Gold Stickles to the centers where the 

little circles were.  And that completed my project!

Look for this and other beautiful floral images from:

Rachel Vass Designs

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

I appreciate your interest and support!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Rachel Vass Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. 

All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.