Hello everyone! Well... it's Sat. and that means Inspiration Challenge day. This one was not really up my alley, but I did find one of the neat tenugui towels to draw inspiration from.
Not sure how I feel about this one, but here's what I did:
Stamped flower from Eastern Blooms in Regal Rose and trounced Rose Red marker around edges and centers. Cut out, then stamped the backs the same way. Placed flowers in three stages of bloom. The bud is just three individual petals cut out and glued in place, then there is a single bloom with curled petals, and then the double bloom. For the leaves I had nothing stamp wise that resembled eastern leaves, so I stamped the flowers in Wild Wasabi again on both sides, cut the petals to a more pointed shape so they would look a little different than the flowers, and glued them in place. Added Frosted Stickles to the centers of the flowers, used the CB die cut oval and a small circle punch to clip the corners of my stentiment, cut the width of card down about 1/4" so oval would extend over the edge... why I'm not sure, just wanted some interest on this otherwise single layer card, and that's about it. Wanted to layer, wanted to add blue water or something, but I really tried to keep it like the inspiration piece. Not sure I'm loving it, but I tried.
Thanks for looking! I'll be back later to comment and view all the creations!
Edit: I see the link is going to the calendar, not the individual month... this was taken from March
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Sat, Jan 10, 2009 @ 8:15 AM
WOW! I love the technique you used for these lovely flowers. This is really pretty. TFS!
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Registered: April 23, 2006 Location: Looking For Teapots! Posts: 59742
Sat, Jan 10, 2009 @ 8:17 AM
I love this! I thought about doing that towel and got confused! Snort! You did good, I am very impressed. Love the dimension to it! Its awesome....very cool!
Registered: October 15, 2007 Location: Birmingham, AL Posts: 38718
Sat, Jan 10, 2009 @ 8:17 AM
Oh, wow, Grace! This is fantastic! I love how you created the flowers and leaves! Very, very creative! Wonderful match to the March calendar image, too! Great IC card!
Registered: April 6, 2005 Location: Stuarts Draft, Virginia Posts: 14401
Sat, Jan 10, 2009 @ 8:46 AM
Grace, these sculpted flowers are incredible!! You've inspired me to try this technique as they're so eye-catching and beautiful!! I have to tell you I laughed til I cried at your description of your worst date for the Verve question the other day! I was at work and could just smell the dog poop as I was reading it (the nurse I worked with thought I was crazy). :-)
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