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Bluebonnet Botanicals
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I wasn't sure what they looked like so I just Googled them, what pretty flowers! From a distance they look like a short lupin growing the field with purply-blue and white/cream flowers.
While I couldn't find anything specific, typing in blue flowers does bring up 75 pages of products. I did have a quick look through and did find some kind of 'look-a-likes' that could be passed off if they were recoloured, like this one from Anja of A Whimsical Adventure.
You could also look through the brushes category in the store.
Another idea is use a stock photo, like the one I posted above from Pixabay, and extract parts of the flowers and apply some type of Photoshop filter to it? I did this quickly by duplicating the photo layer, using a sketch effect on one of the layers, then used a layer mask to mask out the bits I didn't want, next I clipped the colour copy to it and toned down the colour a bit.
You would end up with this type of effect? Not sure what type of effect you are after but it might get you started with your own ideas.
Hope this helps in some way.
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Celestine
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@wombat146 Thanks, Ona. I hadn't seen that Vintage Flora kit with the foxglove, and it went into my wish list. You are correct that a bluebonnet is a variation of lupin/lupine.
I admit that I am not very good at recoloring items - they never look right, and bluebonnets are a fairly intense hue, but I do appreciate your idea of finding a closeup on a freebie photo site and trying my hand at altering it.
I just tried more specific Oscraps store searches on "lupine," "violet," "blue botanical" and "botanical brush" and that did narrow the selection from blue flower (which is what I had tried earlier as well). So. Many. Gorgeous. Kits. And of course, way too many just went into my Wish List. I will need to go through them a little more carefully again to see what I can substitute for the bluebonnets. I will also wait a couple of days because maybe someone else will see this request and guide me to a matching kit. That bloom color isn't really something that I even have represented in my kit papers and backgrounds. Is it blue? Is it purple?
ALSO, I remember a few years ago there was a lady on ScrapGirls asking for a kit with bluebonnets. Maybe a bluebonnet themed kit would be something for one of the designers to think about creating? That deep purplish-blue hue and white center with broad, green leaves could make for a gorgeous kit. It is the Texas state flower, with festivals and even trails where the best bluebonnet fields can be viewed. @AimeeHarrison @Anja DD (I hope you two designers don't mind that I tagged you, but I know that you do botanical kits within specific flower themes. Others do as well, such as Christine Art, Lynne Anzelc and et designs, but I didn't know how to tag them). Oooh, wouldn't State Flower / National Flower themed kits be interesting?
I admit that I am not very good at recoloring items - they never look right, and bluebonnets are a fairly intense hue, but I do appreciate your idea of finding a closeup on a freebie photo site and trying my hand at altering it.
I just tried more specific Oscraps store searches on "lupine," "violet," "blue botanical" and "botanical brush" and that did narrow the selection from blue flower (which is what I had tried earlier as well). So. Many. Gorgeous. Kits. And of course, way too many just went into my Wish List. I will need to go through them a little more carefully again to see what I can substitute for the bluebonnets. I will also wait a couple of days because maybe someone else will see this request and guide me to a matching kit. That bloom color isn't really something that I even have represented in my kit papers and backgrounds. Is it blue? Is it purple?
ALSO, I remember a few years ago there was a lady on ScrapGirls asking for a kit with bluebonnets. Maybe a bluebonnet themed kit would be something for one of the designers to think about creating? That deep purplish-blue hue and white center with broad, green leaves could make for a gorgeous kit. It is the Texas state flower, with festivals and even trails where the best bluebonnet fields can be viewed. @AimeeHarrison @Anja DD (I hope you two designers don't mind that I tagged you, but I know that you do botanical kits within specific flower themes. Others do as well, such as Christine Art, Lynne Anzelc and et designs, but I didn't know how to tag them). Oooh, wouldn't State Flower / National Flower themed kits be interesting?