Challenge #23 - " Petals"

Everyone loves flowers.  I am amazed at God's creation.  There are so many types of flowers.  They all seem so delicate yet some of them can last the entire summer.  Some are bold with wide petals and some have very small and delicate petals.  Here is your chance to show off your favorite type.  Your flowers may be stamped, cut by hand from paper or cut from a die.  They may also be bought  embellishments.  You may choose to showcase one or many.  The choicr is yours.

Vicki

My card is made with one of the images from Glitterbabe, my spionsor.  I thought it would be interesting to put the flower inside a flower Nestie.  The coloring was done with Copic markers.  The card uses a technique called Curled Corner.    The greeting is a Stampin' Up stamp. 

You will notice below that Barbara used the same image as I.  Neither of us knew that we were using the same digital.    It is interesting to see the different approach two people can use on the same digital.

Valerie

Here is my rose card for the *petals challenge* The rose from LaBlanche - has been stamped with archival black and coloured with water colours , The petals have been sprinkled lightly with some soft glitter. I have stuck to a simple one layer card.

Valerie

The tag has been distressed, stamped with a background script stamp, and some flourishes. I have then added some flowers, buttons and a Tim Holtz decoration!

Petra

A Lady in Style ... as soon as I had seen the image of the Lady (all images are from The Sum of All Crafts) I knew I wanted to use it for this challenge - together with a wonderful fabric flower (tutorial here). I cut a tag using a flowery digital image whereby the bottom edge is punched with a Stampin'Up edge punch. The basic tag is layered with the Lady image, the fabric flower and a little Eau de Cologne label. Voila!

Barbara

This was a fun card to make. I used a digital image from our sponsor Glitterbabe and the technique Vellum Sentiments from the current Technique Junkies newsletter for this card. I first printed the daisy on white cardstock and colored it with Copics. I cut a piece of vellum the size of the image panel and embossed the frame using an embossing folder. The sentiment was stamped on the vellum. Brads were used to adhere the vellum to the image panel. Everything was adhered to the yellow card base.

I am so pleased to announce that  my sponsor for the "Petals" challenge is Glitterbabe Digis.  GLITTERBABE DIGIS is a digital stamp store specializing in a variety of images. Steph Hughes leans towards whimsical in her drawings and cover just about everything you need for any occasion. All her images are done in jpg, png and tif format. She strives for quality product and works hard to give her very best.  She has tons of fun with it and she hopes you do too.

Glitterbabe has graciously offered a $10 gift certificate.  Make sure you click on the logo above and visit her store.  I am sure you will find something there that is perfect for your next project.

More Flower Petals

I have had wonderful response so far to my challenge "Petals".  Here is a little more inspiration for you.  However, if you haven't entered yet, you still have a week to do so.  My design team has made a few more creations to get the juices flowing.

Vicki

This card uses a flower image from Glitterbabe.  It also features a little airbrushing which I did not only behind the flower, but also on the greeting.  As an added touch are little gold fillagree corners and a flower with a butterfly.      

This card has a littlke of a western touch as the back mat is copper cardstock.  Also, the single flower with the airbrushing remimds me of the single flowers I have seen in the desert.

Michele

I agree with Vicki -- flowers are awe-inspiring.  For my "petals"creation I started with a background created using the collaged circles technique from Technique Junkies (I guess I still have circles on the brain from our last Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge!).  I used the calla lilies digi-stamp from Glitterbabe Designs which I decorated with colored pencils.  I used a few other embellishments -- ribbon, a sweet bird sticker and the word "wonder."  As I said. nature is a wonder!  I look forward to seeing more of your wonderful creations.

Valerie

Here is a LO I have made, using the same stamped rose as last time (from LaBlanche) and carrying on the theme of petals.

I used a photo of my Mum and my eldest sister, taken about 1939 /40. For the background I have used a sheet of 12 x 12" ceramic card - a speciality stamping paper. First I stamped the rose and the owl each twice with resist ink, and let it dry before rubbing over the paper with a mixture of ancient paper, Victorian Velvet and Forest Moss inks. I sprayed it too with some garden fairy green from My tattered angels, before wiping the colour away, leaving just a faint colour and the images showed up white, Then I stamped again, using Victorian velvet for the roses, and Forest moss for the other images. The roses have been embossed with bridal embossing powder, and the owls and clocks with perfect pearls in gold. After they were heat set, I wiped the rest away with an old nylon stocking, it gets rid of the excess powder in no time! You can't see too much of the resist printing, as the light is not ideal, but you can see the white shadows. I used different embellishments - netting, flowers, lace, some prima leaves and some acetate butterflies and a corner. Was relatively quick and easy to make!