Hi! I made this card for today's TLC challenge: pounded flowers! I have to say this was a really fun challenge! What a great technique!
For this card, I squashed mint leaves and a bright pink geranium flower with my Big Shot twice on watercolor paper. I embossed the resulting paper with a Tim Holtz ef, and then I spritzed with gold Smooch. I waited for it to dry and then cut it out and mounted it on a piece of green cs that I embossed with a Spellbinders label die. I stamped, watercolored and cut out the pear, adding accents with my Uniball signo gel and glossy black ink pens. I added a soft orchid colored ribbon from SU! from looooong ago, some glittery brads from MFP, and the card was done.
TFL and have a beautiful day!!
Date: Monday, June 28, 2010 GMT Views: 432
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Paper: SU! whisper white, wild wasabi cs, watercolor paper
Ink: Palette Noir; SU! reinkers in lavedar lace, orchid opulence (for the flowers inside the pear), so saffron, certainly celery, wild wasabi (for the pear body), sahara sand and soft suede (the last 2 were for the stem); Uniball white gel pen, black glaze pen
Accessories: orchid ribbon from SU!; green glitter brads & Tim Holtz ef from MFP
Techniques: pounded flowers; watercoloring with reinkers
Registered: March 11, 2008 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 39766
Mon, Jun 28, 2010 @ 8:35 PM
Lovely design here. Your eb panel is awesome. Love the pear with the flowers on it. Beautiful card. TFS :0)
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Mon, Jun 28, 2010 @ 10:14 PM
Fantastic idea to emboss your pretty flower paper after you pounded your poor posies. Such a pretty result! Great card!
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Thu, Jul 01, 2010 @ 7:35 PM
Wow, this is gorgeous!!!
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