Floral cards

I wanted to share with you some of my floral cards... I love to make flowers from paper scraps... it is a multi purpose project... I can use scraps of paper, and punch out the pedals of the flowers, and also create something that I love to make and see... so it has many features... I do think that they add a super dimension to a card...


So in between things, I would come into my studio and start to make a few blossoms... punch out the pedals of scraps of paper, and then create the flower... you have to break down the fibers of the paper so that you can get the flower to have pedals that look real.. so I start with that... (not the most fun of the making.. but something that is essential... then I add details to the pedals... sometimes I add the details prior to breaking down the fiber... then start to put the flower together...

Each one of the cards here was done for a different challenge, so they have different backgrounds etc... but the flowers were all done approx. the same way...

I do love making all kinds of flowers, and I get my inspiration from all the seed catalogs that come across my desk... You see, again for those that don't know this... Glenn and I live own a farm... (organic and biodynamic) we have some critters and try to grow as much of our food as possible... we do live in the country.. .very rural to most.. can not see our neighbor type of thing... and the worse part.. is that we have dial up for our Computers... (hopefully we will be getting Uverse soon... and we are keeping our fingers crossed on that one... ) We can't even get dish... as the mountains block out the connections for this... cell phone in our house... forget it... we use all the old fashioned things... a line phone, dial up and a few other things that we would like to have a little more up to date...

Well I just deleted a card... but I will share it with you later...
I hope to play today, but not really sure... you see our son is with us for the week.. so I have been laying low, and not playing in my studio.. Seeing him is so great... we only get to see him a few times a year... and this is one of those special times... So we are spending as much time as possible with him...

If you have the ability to go onto Face Book, his name is Brett McLain and he is very talented... he does wood carving with a chain saw... he has won many trophies for his outstanding number one work in many shows all over the world... so check him out...

http://www.facebook.com//profile.php?id=619191433&ref=pymk#/pages/Newton-NJ/Freehand-Custom-Carvings/181046102067?ref=mf This is where you will connect to his site on Facebook... enjoy...

So he is going to carve a few pieces today for our yard... and I will see if I can take some pictures of him working... and share them with you... also will show you what he has created... while he is doing that... his girl friend and I will be playing in my studio... and I hope I can share some more cards with later... but being with him right now is the most important thing in my life...

Thanks for visiting my blog.... and I really appreciate all your comments and love...
You are all great ... create something special today... go out of the box and experiment.. you might be surprised at how GREAT you really are ... in so many ways.. we all don't give ourselves the praise we deserve... love yourself and create...

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie