Pretty Flowers

I have been making all these flowers... hoping that it will bring SPRING here quicker to us... it is not working as quickly as I would like it to.. but I am enjoying myself... so hey... I will take all benefits that I can...

Today there were a couple of challenges that allowed me to indulge in flower making .... so I took full advantage of it...

One challenge was to use scent... so I put small cotton balls of scent to pop up my flowers... I also used a lot of different things prior to that... I took a 6x12 inch piece of bazzil and folded it into three sections.. .the two side panels are 3.5 inches... so the center one is a little bit larger. I used pink Bazzill for the first layer.. and then added a layer of dotted swiss... love this cuddlebug folder... Then wanted the lacy look, so I added some paper lace using Martha Stewarts punches... then using the fleur di lis spellbinder, I created the bottom of the two out side panels... and used the scalloped heart spellbinder for the double heart... which was also run thru the dotted swiss folder...

I then painted some flowers.. actually I drew them with a black art pen... then used my chalks to fill them in... and then accents were put into the flowers with markers... and a final touch... a yellow pearl in the center... a few leaves to make a garland across the card... and a few some floral accents around from spellbinder folders...

I love this type of look... a combination of Vistorian, femine pinks, flowers, all the dotted swiss paper... just love the look.. will have to play again with this... and extend this card a little bit more each time... fun and games...



Then the next challenge was Clean and Simple... keeping the card in as much white as possible, and a few things as accents... this particular challenge wanted something cut out... most of my cards have something cut out... so that is good..

The card has Martha Stewart corner and border punch background... and then the tulip medallion was used to create a backdrop for the flowers... I also scented these... and added a huge purple half pearl in the center of each flower... trying to keep this as simple as possible... a satin white bow...

I love these type of cards... but am going to have to get some nice clear boxes to mail them... oh well... it will be worth it.. .I think that the friends and family I will send these to will love them.. so that will be the second gift to me...

Hope that you have enjoyed these too.. and thanks again for visiting my Blog... hope you are enjoying it... tell your friends about it too..

Love, light and peace... Bonnie