Waterfall Card

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Spring Waterfall

Tired of painting greeting cards, I began to look for other ways to create a gift from a painting. The waterfall above was part of a sort of greeting card/postcard combination for one of my pen friends. For this one, I chose a sort of mottled, parchment-look card stock that I wanted to show through on the finished painting. I started with a pile of rocks and ran a waterfall down the front. Then I searched a flower seed catalog for suitable flowers to surround it. I don't know if the blossoms I used are actually a real type of flower, but they do look like trilliums turned pink and yellow. Once that was all dry, I used a calligraphy pen to write my pen pal's name in fancy lettering, and added a couple thin plastic hearts as embellishments. I was really pleased with it! It made a lovely gift one step up from a greeting card.