Papertrey Ink April Blog Hop

Today, I'm participating in the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. 

And guess what?

This is my fifth anniversary of playing along with the PTI blog hop, as I participated

for the first time on April 25, 2011 -- and have participated every month since. :)

This month's challenge was to be inspired by the work of Chad Hagen.

It's a really cool photo, but, honestly, it left me a little stumped.

I finally came up with this idea for my card.

  

I started by diecutting a circle from the edge of a piece of cardstock using my MFT Stax Circle dies.

Then, from the piece left over, I cut the next size circle.

I repeated this step five more times to end up with one circle and six rings.

With my blending tool, I started with the outermost ring and added lemon tart to it.

I then did this to the second outermost ring but added more ink, so it would be slightly darker.

I repeated this step for the next three rings, but with harvest gold.

Then, I did bright buttercup and summer sunrise in the centre.

This gave me a similar effect to the largest circle at the top of the inspiration photo.

I blended aqua mist and Hawaiian shores ink for my sky and green parakeet for the ground.

I stamped the Petite Places: Barnyard onto their coordinating diecuts

and stamped my sentiment Barnyard Sentiments & from KIS: Belated Birthday.

Thanks for looking!