This is the 3rd and final piece for the same family who ordered the pieces featured on the Family Fun and on Flowering Tree posts. I have received very positive feedback from the family on all 3 pieces, which always does my heart good.
This piece was for the youngest daughter in the family and it was surprisingly difficult because I didn’t want it to look too much like her mom’s. I wanted it to be unique, just for her. I can’t tell you how many flowers got scrapped in the process. And drawings of layouts. Finally, however, I did decide to go with something similar, but using different flowers. Of course, there is only one butterfly (representing the little girl) instead of a whole family of winged creatures so I was able to slightly dramatize the butterfly fluttering delightfully among the flowers with just a few dots of a fine-tipped Sharpie. What fun! 🙂
Something kind of fun about the pieces for the 2 daughters is that they will be displayed next to each other on a wall. So I was careful to use the same color for the background and the same font and color for the text. I also wanted the colors of the quilled elements to go well together. I started out using all the colors in this piece that I used in the “flowering tree” piece. Yikes. That did NOT work. The red, orange, and gold colors looked hideous and those were the flowers that got scrapped (as did at least one of the shades of blue I tried0. Once I paired down the colors to pink, purple, yellow, and blue–with some white in there too–it came together very quickly and, I think, nicely.
I’ll share some photos of the piece on it’s own and also one next to the flowering tree since they’ll be wall buddies.
Twirled Peace 