The Color Purple

Grapes, pansies, eggplant, lavender, amethyst, and Tracie's house...it's time for the color purple!  Yes...Tracie lives a purple house. How awesome is that!

Here's the purple rock carin card I made for Brenda

for our Rainbow Connection project.

I did a little experimenting creating the stones.  The only thing I new for sure is that I wanted the lines on the stones to be stitched.  The first round I did the stitching first....then painted the rocks. I added just of touch of gold here and there.

I cut them out and stacked some onto a 4 x 4 inch square 

and knew the concept was going to work. 

I thought the would look better with better with white lines so on a 

second batch I painted the rocks first...then did the stitching.  

In hindsight I think I liked the lighter colors on the first batch....

but I ended up using these darker ones. Go figure!

The whole card was actually inspired by this art piece by Abby Houston...and her patchwork like background gave me my idea on how to move forward.

https://www.instagram.com/abbypainterart/

I patched together 3 pieces of painted papers.  The watercolor dots on the left were done with a tiny little brush Becky gave me. It soaked up the watercolor well...and made a great little dot.  The blobs on the right were done with my finger dipped in watercolor. The bottom paper is commercial art paper with gold dots that I painted purple with diluted purple acrylic paint.  I stitched them all together on a substrate.....

 

....and glued on the rock cairn.

You know how I like a little frame...

so I stitched it onto a piece of cardstock with purple painted edges.

This the back...before I glued on the quote.

  

Of course there had to be a purple liner.  

Only a little bit shows on this one...but I think it's kind of cute.

And on each little purple daisy on this scrapbook paper I added a gold center.

My card for Brenda for the Rainbow Connection project. ✔

Speaking of purple...aren't my neighbor's hydrangea fabulous!

They just keep getting deeper and deeper purple...and new blooms are still coming.  

 

Elle pointed out that my acrylic watercolor piece reminded her of hydrangea. 

I think she's right!