When I saw the TLC yesterday I really wanted to play along. When the Faux Pressed Flowers tutorial was featured in the Inkling I gave it a try. DH liked the results, but I was never happy enough to make the card front into a proper card and threw it out last time I tidied my desk. So it was great to be able to combine it with the TPT challenge today and achieve a result I was much happier with.
Card is a non-standard size, about 5 x 5 3/4", base is pink Bazzill.
I stamped a Hero Arts flourish in black on some paper I'd used a couple of pink inks and Wrinkle Free Distress on, and then added the flowers and some silver stamens. Embossed with SU Square Lattice, then added silver ink and EP to the edges.
Flourishes sentiment stamped on another scrap of the background paper, punched out with an oval punch and edged in black.
The butterfly was punched from silver glitter card and then sponged with pink alcohol ink to colour it up. I considered adding black or silver half pearls, and then decided that trying to stick things to glitter card is always hard and passed on that idea.
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 GMT Views: 957
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Registered: April 14, 2009 Location: in my own little PINK sparkly world Posts: 12150
Tue, Apr 03, 2012 @ 6:52 PM
wow...this gives me courage to keep trying...my first and only try is in the trash too....this is spectacular....love the flourish "vine" with your flowers
Registered: April 23, 2006 Location: Looking For Teapots! Posts: 59742
Tue, Apr 03, 2012 @ 7:38 PM
You teapotters that are always trying new techniques blow me away! I am so not a technique person! This is so lovely Sabrina....love the sparkley little flower centers.....the texture is really awesome and the black florish thingies are so eyecatching! Alix will be loving his one!
Registered: November 17, 2006 Location: Nanaimo, British Columbia Posts: 52798
Tue, Apr 03, 2012 @ 8:23 PM
WOW, SABRINA.. THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL.. AWESOME JOB WITH THE FAUX PRESSED FLOWERS, LOVE THE FLOURISH BEHIND THE FLOWERS AND THE PRETTY SPARKLY BUTTERFLY... ALIX. WILL LOVE IT..TFS
HUGS..PAT
Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Tue, Apr 03, 2012 @ 11:24 PM
this is so pretty. I love the black bg swirls you put the flowers on. super job with the faux pressed flowers...might have to give it a try...great use of the cheery colors...TFs..:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.
Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 15980
Wed, Apr 04, 2012 @ 4:54 PM
Sabrina, love all the pink flowers and black flourishes!! Nicely done!
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??