Softpencil Blog Hop!

Hi everybody! To kick off the start of the new Softpencil Challenges, we're having our very first blog hop! If you didn't start at the Softpencil blog, you'll want to go back to get all the details of the hop!

This week the DT got a gorgeous rose image to play with and our design element is watercoloring, which goes perfectly with this image! I had to go with the classic red rose and here's what I came up with:


I bought a very lightweight watercolor paper from my local craft store just so I would be able to print digi images from my printer. I used Peerless watercolors and a waterbrush, using lots of different reds and greens (and then grey for shadows) in layers. Lastly I did a yellow halo around the entire image.

The sketch is from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge and my card also qualifies for the CCEE Stampers' challenge - "Let's Go Digital!."

In case you get lost along the way, here's the Hop order:

Softpencil Blog
Maureen (you're here!)
Wendy
Cathy
Anne-Katrine
Tracy
Ashley
Kerry
And then back to the Softpencil Blog for a chance to win a prize!

The Softpencil challenges will start on Saturday, October 3 at the Softpencil group at Paper Craft Planet. We hope you'll join us!! I hope you have fun with the rest of the hop and good luck winning a prize!

And now your next stop is the fabulously talented Wendy!