Peony Rose with Rachel Vass Designs

 

Hello everyone!  Today I'm bringing you a card with an Autumn

palette from:

Rachel Vass Designs

Peony Rose 

This digital stamp set is a favorite of mine - I know I say that about all

of Rachel's designs, but this one is gorgeous!

Let me show you how I made this card!

I started by composing my design in my computer and printing it out

onto Altenew 100% cotton 140lb watercolor paper.  My image measures

3 1/2" tall.  I then die cut the image with a 3 3/4" circle die.

I decided to use Prima Watercolor Confections - Terrain Palette.  I

haven't used this palette much but it had the colors I wanted to use.

I painted the vase first.  I have an inkjet printer.  I printed my image

the night before and I had no problems with the ink smearing while

painting it the next day.  I used Maple for the first wash keeping the

paint more intense at the top and quite light over the sentiment.

I next did a first wash on the leaves with Spanish Moss.  For

shadows I used Vine Leaf and then Balsam for the deepest shadows.

Next I moved on to the flowers.  I painted all of the flowers with

the same colors in the same way.  I did a pale wash of Purple Smoke

Tree and then shaded with more of the same color and then added touches

of Blue Shadow.  I also glazed some of the flower petals with

the Sourwood.

This rosebud was painted quite darkly.  The other flowers were

painted with more hilights.

At this point I felt that the vase needed deeper shadows, so I used the

Sourwood to create a sense of depth at the top of the vase.

Next I adhered a piece of deep plum card stock cut to 4 1/8" x 5 1/4"

to a top folding Az size white card base.  I wanted just a tiny bit of that

white card base showing to tie in the white of my watercolored circle.

I did not chose my background paper before I started.  So, I had to

find something in my stash.  I was thrilled to pieces when I found this

Burnt Sienna colored patterned paper.  It was such a perfect match and

there are leaves ghosted in the paper.  I cut that to 4" x 5 1/4" and adhered

 it to my base. I adhered my watercolor circle flat to the card and then I added 

a bow made from plum silk ribbon and added 3 glitter enamel dots and my

 card was finished!

I love this color combination so much.  It's my favorite fall palette.

This digistamp set was first released in January of 2020 - Rachel's

launch of her new Etsy Shop!  Find her here:

Rachel Vass Designs

Rachel has many beautiful designs to chose from!  Please be

inspired to create something beautiful!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

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.