Making a Multi-Coloured Bouquet Work + Video!

Hello Friends!  Today the Power Poppy team is joining together to play along with Kathy Racoosin and her Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge!

Today I wanted to show you more of my process of making multi-coloured bouquets work together, so I actually have a tutorial video and two cards to show you!  Now, if you’ve been here a while you know I don’t do videos regularly, but lots of people have been asking to see how I colour.  So,  it’s NOT super fancy, and I’m using evening light - so it could be brighter, but you’ll see a bit of my colouring process.  Even though I can’t see you when I’m shooting the video, I’m still imagining you as I’m talking.  And it sometimes makes me forget my words!  Hopefully you’re entertained!  

I’ve used the gorgeous new set Abundant Petals.  It is amazing how much Marcy packed into this stamp set.  It’s double a normal sized set, and the different flowers she chose are so beautifully done!  It makes a colourist so happy! 

What my video shows you, is how I take a floral bouquet which has many unique colours in it, and make it tie together cohesively.  I was inspired by this photo of a wedding bouquet.  

Amazing isn’t it?  I love the soft colours, and yet there are really a lot of different colours in the bouquet:  pink, coral, yellow, orange, blue, green.  My wedding bouquet was a lot like this  - though probably brighter deeper colours than these pastels.  I love the vibrance of a lot of colour, it’s also how I seem to colour everything!  

So, when I’m putting together the bouquet, each flower has it’s own distinctive colour, but it also has elements of a number of the other colours in the bouquet mixed into each flower.  By doing this the flowers work together.  You can take a look in the video..

Here’s the second card I made, put together with the initial “single color” colouring of each petal, and then in the video how I added some of the different colours in the bouquet to each flower.  

Both cards make use of Distress Ink, or Distress Oxide backgrounds.  I’ve just started to play around with those, and it’s fun to see how they turn out!  

I’ve embossed that empowering sentiment from Marcy’s new set M-Powering Words.  Man is that set awesome!  I love the words, and Marcy’s fabulous hand lettering.  

Now for a bit of SALE news, which is always fun....Marcella is offering a special on two stamps sets,  Burst of Kindness and Spring Meadow , Marcy has more on that in the Power Poppy Blog post as well.   Sale ends June 9th! 

Here is the fabulous Power Poppy line up colouring along today....

Barb Walker
Christine Okken (you are here)
Cindy Lawrence
Elizabeth Zaffarano
Julie Koerber
Kathy Jones
Katie Sims
Nancy Sheads
Stacy Morgan
Tosha Leyendekker
and Marcy at the Power Poppy Blog