dandelions

Same focal image and same designer papers, but two totally different looks. The black matting on the first one really makes it stand out and the white matting on the second one gives it a softer dreamy look. I stamped the dandelion from Mark's Finest Papers Nature's Brushstrokes mini stamp set. I used a gray marker to do the flower part and a green marker to ink up the leaves. After I stamped it, I used the end of my paint brush to add the dots. I used 3 different shades of acrylic paint. I used white, ivory and cream. I think the 3 colors gives it more depth than if I had done just plain white dots. After the paint dried I added glue and glamour dust. I tried to take close up photos of the flowers to give you a glimpse of their sparkliness but the camera just doesn't do it justice. One card is for my daughter who just got a promotion at work and the other is for a good friend who lost her father in law yesterday.
These card are for the color challenge at Splitcoast Stampers CC445. I am also going to enter them in the Word Art Wednesday challenge.WAW98