{"id":3569,"date":"2010-04-25T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T17:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2010-04-26T11:57:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:57:21","slug":"day-3-soft-pretty-freebie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/day-3-soft-pretty-freebie\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 – Soft & Pretty Freebie"},"content":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholdermichelle shefveland.<\/span> Nature’s Sketchbook Papers 1<\/a> (tear template), Everyday 5 Papers<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Journals 7<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 3<\/a> (frame), Daisy Freebie below<\/span>
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Soft and pretty is a common end goal of my art, and as others note, most often with a nature theme. I suppose it has to do with my background in quilting and small town living with a love of the outdoors.<\/p>\n

One of my fondest memories of middle school was a project in Animal Biology where I sat in our beautiful woods in the splendor of fall and sketched 3 different breeds of squirrels and documented their characteristics. I really regret not having that poster any more. Note to self: always scan or photograph important projects for the kids (which may make an interesting post someday)!<\/p>\n

My Nature’s Sketchbook <\/a>series has been a labor of love and something I will keep adding to as the seasons change in nature, as well as in my life. Right now my mom is continuing her battle with Stage 4 breast cancer, influencing my journaling and artwork. Creating is certainly therapeutic in so many ways.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_1_placeholdermichelle shefveland. <\/span>Everyday 5 Papers<\/a><\/span>, Scrap.Frames 9,<\/a> Grad Scrap.Words<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Photo Art Blends 2<\/a>, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 2<\/a>
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Blending images into collages is so much fun! We have a great tutorial on our blog here<\/a> and our Photo Art Blends<\/a> all come with step-by- step tutorials and recipes to help give you creative freedom to develop your own style.<\/p>\n

For the first layout at top I blended the focal image into the tear template and paper using soft light blend mode. In the one just above, a photo art blend gives the hosta image a crumpled notebook paper effect.<\/p>\n

Below are some recent soft and pretties by the team and today’s freebie, a dainty daisy accent, ready to go with a soft lifted drop shadow and a contemplative word art quote.<\/p>\n

Layout details and supplies can be found in our challenge gallery here<\/a>.
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Our birthday sale of 37% off ALL DOWNLOADS<\/a> goes thru Tuesday. <\/strong>See last Friday’s newsletter for additional coupon code and prize drawing info. <\/span><\/p>\n

See you tomorrow! Michelle<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n

Nature’s Sketchbook Daisy Sampler Freebie<\/span><\/span> by Michelle Shefveland (download expired Monday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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michelle shefveland. Nature’s Sketchbook Papers 1 (tear template), Everyday 5 Papers, Nature’s Sketchbook Journals 7, Nature’s Sketchbook Elements 3 (frame), Daisy Freebie below Soft and pretty is a common end goal of my art, and as others note, most often with a nature theme. I suppose it has to do with my background in quilting and small town living with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-freebies","category-sales","category-team-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}