Saturday 2 August 2014

Floral flourish

Although I’m not a huge fan of florals I seem to be using them a little more these days and my post today is a vibrant choice…

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My cards seem to be standardizing on 8" x 8" at the moment so I cut some white card at an appropriate size and 'marbled' Dylusions spray inks onto it. Once done I used a scroll stencil (you can use any pattern) misted with water to water bleach it. When dry, it was edged with Walnut stain DI:
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I mounted the background onto black card and then stained some tissue tape with Crushed olive DI:
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This beautiful symetrical flourish is cut using a Spellbinders die:
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Using a scrap piece of board I scraped some white gesso over a couple of areas of the background to act as a base for stamping:
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Black archival ink used with some scroll and text stamps over the gesso provide some light relief as well as adding texture:
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The black flourishes and some die cut ferns have been added. I used some of the Spellbinders Grand peony creations dies to cut flower shapes which I sprayed with the Dylusions inks with water and then shaped with the Bloom Impression tool whilst they were wet:
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Tim's handy Simple sayings sentiment stamps were used to create the greeting. Both that and the flower have been edged with the DI. The flower centre is just a plain, shiny, black bead:
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You can see that additional flourishes (left and right) have been used to wrap around the sentiment:
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Top left and top right:
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Centre floral:
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Done:
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I know it's bright but I hope you like it.

Have a fabulous weekend and thanks for visiting today.

Chris xxx


4 comments:

  1. Bright but beautiful, incorporating some great techniques! Love the ferns behind the flower, where did you get those??

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  2. Lovely Chris, splendid, bright colours and like Astrid has said, wonderful techniques. I love the spellbinders flourish too. Nikki xx

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  3. a gorgeous piece and such wonderful colours x

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  4. Wow Chris, I love those gorgeous hot colours, they look amazing and the highlights in the background really make your embellishments 'pop'. Anne x

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