I have no gardenia stamps and tried to use Markie's Mom technique of hearts to make the petals...and totally failed! Decided to use the all natural flower, a set I've always admired, but just got before it retired. Popped one of the flowers up and used the beautiful leaf from natural beauty. Colored with pencils and blender pens, then sponged celery, olive and saffron. Used gold pen to outline leaves and flowers, then used the glitter pen in areas to highlight. It still didn't gleam like porcelan so I used crystal effects on the flowers and some parts of the leaves. Butterfly is from watercolor minis, stamped in ruby red, embossed with gold, glitter-penned, then crystal effects. Most of this doesn't show very well! (:<
In any case, I enjoyed this inspiration! TFL!
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2007 GMT Views: 2097
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