Botanical Garden inspiration by Ellie Knol

Ellie here with you today. I hope you are doing fine! 

Creating a flower garden on paper... these flower images are fabulous in doing that.
Inspiration from nature, yes!


To be able to stamp the flowers one behind the other I had to mask off the rose image of course. 



Watercolors were used to add the color ranges. 

Have a good day, every day! 

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aussie aNNie said…
Beautiful creation Ellie. xx
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
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