Mother's Day Cards

These are the first of my original designs using Luminarte's Twinkling H2O paints.  Actually, they aren't really the first, but they are the first I have photographed...

You can sort of see the shimmer in the pictures, but it doesn't really photograph very well...

I was especially proud of this one.  The shading on the leaves turned out so pretty, I thought.

Elizabeth helped me with the shading on the card above and the one below.  She used Prismacolor pencils to shade, but the mica in the paints tended to repel the wax to some extent.  I loved the way the leaves on this turned out.

This blue card is my first one to actually draw myself.  The others are just traced around chipboard shapes.  I used the drapes in my studio for inspiration, although there is very little resemblance to the flowers on the drapes to be found on this card...

So fun to use lots of different shades of the same color as I did here with this purple card.  I have found that the angled flat brush is my favorite, and it made adding the lines on these petals very easy.