Eureka Chalenge #52 - Summer Blooms & Blossoms

It's Monday which means it's time for another Eureka Stamps Challenge and this week the theme is "Summer Blooms & Blossoms"  Now let me confess here and now:  I have a black thumb.  Really!  I can't grow ANYTHING!  I think I'm the only person who actually killed Marigolds!  Yep, I did it.  I didn't think anything would kill those things!  I bought the Marigolds after my attempt at a rose bush....which produced the most beautiful stick you've ever seen.  But not one lousy bloom much less a leaf.  My mother, on the other hand, not only has a green thumb, but her whole body must be green!  She can grow anything!!!!  And one of the things that she grows are the most beautiful Iris's.  I mean these things are HUGE!  And they are the deepest purple color with other shades of purple through them...some of the petals look like velvet - they are so lush.  And these things are very old plants.  I'm in my 40's and I can remember these same Iris's in the same place every year.  So I went in search of an image of an Iris.....

...and of course, Eureka Stamps had one!  The image I used is Abstract Flower.  I loved how it was abstract - usually not my style at all so it was fun go outside the box.  I colored it with pencils and then went over the whole thing with baby oil to blend it.  I loved how it turned out!  (Hope you do too!).  The papers are from my pieces/parts stash.  I was so happy about the abstract quality that I didn't add any other embellishment at all.  I just wanted the image to be the whole focal point.  Here's the final result:

 

Now don't forget to come on over and play with us because you could win some images!  Remember, you can't win if you don't play! 

 

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