Illustrated and pencil colored Hibiscus

Hello friends, I am here with another coloring.

I wanted to color a hibiscus and currently I don't have those stamps with me, I think one is in India and other in the Phillipines....partly another reason for posting mostly coloring related cards is because I have very limited craft stash here in Macau with me. I have very few stamps and Prismacolor pencils, Watercolors and a good bunch of stencils and other limited stuff. A tiny sizzix side kick, I really miss my Bigshot!

Ok enough of the distractions!

Thanks to no stamp on hand, I had illustrated the hibiscus myself, I illustrated it to an actual flower size, and I was crazy to think to color this big flower, but I am quite satisfied with the coloring.

The coloring has taken me almost 3 hours. I am seriously glad that the card assembly took about 5 mins!

I have added a process picture, so you can see how the flat drawing came to life.

The initial base layer is CrafTangles liquid watercolors, Yes the cardstock is a watercolor hot press paper.

The shades vary as the daylight varies too with some scattered clouds coming and dispersing while my coloring was getting done.

I will add a real time video of the card on Instagram if you want to see the coloring.

I did add a video for the bubble flower from yesterday.

Once the coloring was done, I fussy cut the flower.

I have used a white base card, and used the bubble stencil from STAMPlorations in fossilized Amber distress oxide ink.

Added 2 score lines on top and bottom of the base card.

The flowers is added using a foam adhesive.

The sentiment is from Altenew, edged with a gold strip, A few jewels to finish it off.

Linking this with:

Inkspirational

Another entry here - I think I should stop adding now to the gallery, though I am coloring everyday thanks to the coloring challenge by Kathy

Inspired by Challenge

Another entry inspired by the blooms

STAMPlorations Summer challenge

The Flower Challenge

Joining in with hibiscus a summer flower and all time tropical flower.

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