This week is Tickle a Teapotter week, how fun! We do an exchange of our cards with another Teapotter, the recipient not knowing who the card will be from until it arrives.
Our cards this week are based on the story Faith did, about how the Mudder's garden is full of teapots of every shape, size , and color. No flowers, just teapots. So our mission is to bring the flowers, butterflies and bees. No slugs or snails, please.
I decided to do a hanging garden. At first I was going to try and fit 200 flowers into the scene to mark the 200th Teapot challenge. No luck with that, but there's a lot of flowers here. I just realized that I forgot the bees and butterflies, so just maybe, there will be some thing like that added to my hanging garden.
The plant hangers are corner dies from the Cheery Lynn Deco corner set. The pots that you cannot see are little squares that I punched two corners with a MS corner punch. Too bad they can't be seen, they turned out to be good pots. I used a Cheery Lynn flourish for the vines and a small leaf punch. The red flowers are from flower punch, the white are from a star punch, and the blue a circle punch. All shaped with a stylus on a mouse pad with a drop of Stickles or Pearl pen added for the centers.
To make the hanging part, I used twine and beading crimps. All of this was put onto a bg that was embossed with the brick wall ef.
Date: Monday, May 28, 2012 GMT Views: 1972
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Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92572
Wed, May 30, 2012 @ 3:57 PM
Jennifer, this is beyond FANTASTIC! I love the scene of the hanging wall planters on a brick wall.....and I can't imagine the time it took you to do this intricate work.....but OH SO worth it. A piece of paper sculpture!!
Registered: October 3, 2009 Location: In a state of grace Posts: 10850
Wed, May 30, 2012 @ 6:47 PM
Wow, wow, wow, I love this Jennifer!! Tee hee both of us have cramped sticky fingers from forming, filling and adhering all of the tiny punched flowers. Every detail, every choice of color, punch, placement and texture (Love the brick wall!) is just perfect. One teapotter will be very, very lucky to receive this beauty.
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Registered: December 18, 2007 Location: Washington Posts: 31148
Fri, Jun 01, 2012 @ 6:21 PM
Amazingly gorgeous Jennifer. Wow. All those flowers. Do your finger tips hurt? You inspired me with a similar creation to hunt down $1 flower stamps from Michaels. And I Just love using them.
Registered: February 9, 2010 Location: Mentone, California Posts: 7361
Sat, Jun 02, 2012 @ 9:41 PM
Coming from someone who has done a couple of cards with some small punched and formed flowers you have my deepest respect for the work that went into this card! Mine pales in comparison... this is an amazing piece of art work and I bow to your genius in its creation!