Hibiscus

Hi, Barbara here. Today I'm sharing a card I did using the level up technique. I started with an image of a Hibiscus flower. The stamp is from Auntie Amy (now under I Brake for Stamps). I stamped the image six times. The entire flower was painted with CI paints. I used rustic red, garnet, sage, green olive, raw sienna, and burnt clay. On the second stamping I painted the flowers and the  leaves, cut them out and adhered them to the first image. On the third stamping I painted the flowers and the forward leaf, cut them out and adhered the pieces to the original image. For each stamping I painted the parts to be cut out and adhered them to the image -- the flowers, then the front petals, until finally just the front petal on the large flower. In real life, the image has a dimensional look. What makes these flowers especially striking is the vivid color and the shimmer created by using CI paints.