Muddy Paws & Inky Fingers: Floral Thanks -- For The Paper Shelter

It's Wednesday, and there's a new challenge starting over at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog. The theme this week is "Colour It". Any hand colored image will qualify you to link up to the challenge! The challenge will run for 1 week.

The Paper Shelter has such wonderful images, and so much variety! Truly, there is something for everyone! Every file purchased comes with a black & white image, and pre-colored image, digital paper, and a composition. They are so fun to create with!

I've been enjoying watercolors lately, and flowers lend themselves well to that medium, so for today's Colour It theme, I used Wild Rose, colored with watercolor pencils:

I got out my Prismacolor watercolor pencils for this, coloring the image, then dampening it with a paintbrush.

I've also jumped on the slimline card bandwagon, and thought this image lent itself well to a slimline card. After coloring Wild Rose, I cut it out with a cross stitch oval die by The Scrapping Cottage.

The slimline dies are by Anna Griffin. The designer papers are by Crafter's Companion. The bee is a die I've had for so long, I no longer remember who it's by. I think it's a freebie from a magazine. I computer generated the sentiment and cut it out twice with a die from Crafter's Companion.

I hope you join us this week at The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog for our Colour It Challenge. If you use a Paper Shelter image, and are the lucky winner of the challenge, you'll get a $30 gift certificate. Use any other image, and the prize is any 3 images from The Paper Shelter Store. Awesome prizes!