ArtPlay Palette CultivateArtPlayPaletteCultivate On sale May 18
ArtsyTransfers CultivateArtsyTransfersCultivate
WatercolorFlowers No. 1WatercolorFlowersNo.1 On sale May 18
UrbanThreadz No. 3UrbanThreadzNo.3 On sale May 18
Cultivate WordART No. 1CultivateWordARTNo.1 On sale May 18
ArchiTextures No. 4ArchiTexturesNo.4
TissueTextures No. 6TissueTexturesNo.6
Sunflower Photo: Jackie Reed
Pansy Photo: Mine

Process Notes: I blended solid paper 4 into artsy paper 6 with Pin Light for my foundation. I extracted the sunflowers and pansies from their backgrounds, placed them in the top corners, resized, rotated and blended with Linear Burn.

I opened transfers from the Palette and the artsy transfers and placed them under and over the photos, blending some to Darken and others to Hard Light.

After placing the ArchiTexture house and brick wall underneath the flowers, I put them on Multiply. I added a brush from the Palette and textures belong the left sunflowers and over the transfer and another brush in the bottom right corner.

Using the water color flowers, I stamped one above the left pansies and another over the right sunflowers along the top edge of the paper, both in pink taken from the palette. Then using a stem from the watercolor flowers, I rotated and placed it along the bottom of the house and underneath the tissue texture. The same stem is placed along the right edge of the paper under a transfer.

After placing the word art, I clipped a transfer from the Palette to it and blended the word art to Color Burn and the transfer to Linear Light which produced the colors you see. Next to the word art, I stamped a different stem, coloring it green and blending it to Darken; stamped the flower head, coloring it a yellow taken from the sunflowers, leaving on Normal blend mode and duplicated it. Using a color from the pansies, recolored the copy and leaving it on Normal but turning down the opacity to 21% and merged the two layers.

Last but not least, I added the UrbanThreadz to the top of the page and another under the brad I placed on the flower head next to the word art.

I took ideas to create the word art on this page from Creative Team member Mariannes tutorial Blending Modes with WordART. Thank you, it added more interest on my page.