Golden Anemones, Golden Memories - Classy Monochromatic Card - Vintage Botanical Illustration

What a golden late spring afternoon it is here,
and frankly it's pretty warm.
All in all, it has me in a rather yellow mood.

Yellow is a special color.  If you've worked in publishing
or print, or if you are a painter, you know that yellows
are the least lightfast, and when it comes to paints, the most transparent.
A good strong yellow is something special.
Ever notice how much Van Gogh loved those gold tones?
They are tricky to achieve well and especially tricky to preserve.
As I thought about it, it's a lot like relationships...or memories.
Vibrant at first, but harder to hold onto.

Yellow was also the favorite color of my grandfather,
who passed last month.
I've been thinking of him today, just as I think of him
and his passionate beekeeping every time I am in the garden,
watching for honeybees.
Today during homeschool reading time we pulled out, among others,
Cynthia Rylant's "When I Was Young in the Mountains"
and the page about her grandfather always sharpening her pencils
with his pocketknife struck a chord too.
Always carry a pocketknife, he taught us.  Always.
And it had to be a CASE.

 So yellow is the color du jour for me.
It's been a good day, a day of lasting memories--
some of them memories
that will stay around...
even longer than yellow pigments.

 

The Monochrome Challenges:

 

Really Reasonable Ribbon #140: Ribbon + Monochromatic

Studio 75 Challenge #5: Monochrome

 

 

The Other Challenges:

 

The Crazy Challenge #222: 3+ Layers

Fab n' Funky #303: 3+ Layers

Crafty Calendar: Things with Wings
 

A Vintage Journey: Sew Special (stitching and/or fabric) - 2nd entry

The Ribbon Girl Challenge: May - ATG

 

Materials Used on this Card:

Cardstock {Rustic white, Smoke; Papertrey Ink}

Patterned papers {Ninth Street by The Paper Studio}

Stamp {Nature's Blessings}

Ink {Ranger}

Clear Superfine Embossing Powder {Ranger}
Spellbinders / Nestabilities dies
Wooden corner flourishes {Momenta}
Sentiment sticker and butterfly {Stick-abilities}
Arctic snowflake punch {Martha Stewart}
Champagne gems {Darice}
Ribbons {Warm gray & gold - Offray; Lace-woven rustic - Robert Stanley}
Copic markers and Watercolor pencils

 

Thank you for visiting today and I hope you will

enter for my Spring Giveaway before you go!

Inlinkz is so quick and I've opened the giveaway to both US and

International crafters as well.

One picture and a link are on my right-hand sidebar. :)

 

Take care,

Be well,

and enjoy the sunshine,

--Kathryn