Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop

I have a card to share for today's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.

(By the way, this is my 75th time playing along with the PTI Blog Hop

-- and those are consecutive, too, as I haven't missed any since I started

participating in 2011!)

 

 This month's challenge was to use this beautiful photo as inspiration:

Isn't it lovely?

I wanted to incorporate the ombre with the flowers, but was a little stumped until 

I saw this amazing card by Betsy Veldman.

Here's my card:

I started by stamping my sentiment (from PTI's Tropics) in versafine onyx black ink 

and heat embossing it in clear.

Then, I created a mask by tearing tha edges off of post it notes and made 

a frame, before stamping the Floral Bouquet outline twice in versamark ink

and heat embossing them in clear.

With my mask still in place, I coloured my flowers and background using my 

Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers and a water brush.

Thanks for looking!