Hollyhocks on the Fenceline with The Greetery

 

Hollyhocks are such a welcome sight in late summer.  The other day it was raining and my hollyhocks on the back fence were just glowing against the wet cedar wood.  It made such a pretty sight, I thought I’d try and recreate it in card form.  I pulled out The Greetery’s Botanicuts Hollyhocks and my Concord and 9th inks and blended the stems and blooms.  

Here are my hollyhocks on a sunny day with the fence in the background so that gives you a bit of the idea of where my inspiration was coming from.  

I ran the background layer through a woodgrain plate and sponged some green ink overtop, and paired that with The Greetery’s Wood Slice Hearts dies to capture that warm wood feeling of the fence.   

The sentiment uses The Greetery’s Thankful Heart stamp set, with just a bit of colour added using Copics.  Hope you in enjoyed my inspiration journey!