I used Cardstock instead of paper (I do like to make my life difficult!) – the cardstock for the flowers is from The Pocket Full of Posies by DCWV – I love this cardstock but I have used all the ‘easy’ ones and now I have to get creative with the less obvious ones! I cut out the circles using my circle Nestablities die in my Cuttlebug. I then folded the card stock using the pattern that can be found here. Once all the pieces where shaped I flatted them down on some paper and started to play with my Adirondack Alcohol inks in Butterscotch and Wild Plum and a touch of blending solution. This is the first time I have used alcohol inks in this form and it was fun!
Once I had assembled the folded pieces and added a bit of glitter I realised just how big it was going to be….so I had to come up with a solution as I loved what I had created….the flower itself is just a shade under 61/2 inches wide, so I used some newly acquired 12x12 cardstock in a beautiful muted dusky pink, now even my maths is good enough to realise that 61/2 doesn’t go into 12 very easily, so I used some more of the The Pocket Full of Posies cardstock and inked it again with the alcohol inks and created a ‘feature edge’ on the inside of the card, anyone would think that it was supposed to be there *wink*
I felt the middle of the flower needed a centre so I punched a small circle out of the cardstock and using the wild plum ink I inked up the circle, added some crystal lacquer for some dimension which I distressed and finally added some glitter.
The flower was then mounted onto the same dusty pink cardstock, then more Pocket Full of Posies cardstock, which I had glittered, and then onto the base card.
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CUTE!!!
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