Saturday, March 09, 2013

Vase of Flowers


Hi everyone.  Today's card is for two challenges:  SCS's CAS challenge (CAS210 - color challenge - night of navy, cameo coral, certainly celery, white) ... and Clearly iStamp (CIC70 - Die-cuts).  This is such a beautiful color combination  and I immediately thought of using the celery and coral for the flowers ... that left the navy for the vase.  A simple sentiment and a doodled border and the card was finished.  Fun and easy!!



Stamps:  Autumn Sentiments (AmyR)
Paper:  White (C.C. Designs); Night of Navy DP (retired), Certainly Celery, Cameo Coral (SU!)
Ink:  Night of Navy (SU!)
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, 8 Petals & Branch die-cut (C.C. Designs), Mega Gracious Vase die-cut (Papertrey Ink), Stamp-a-ma-jig, Crystal Effects, white gel pen, stylus & mat, pencil, eraser, glue, adhesives, and dimensionals



I cut the vase out of the DP and covered it with Crystal Effects.  I die-cut the petals and branch dies and then shaped the small flowers using my stylus and mat.  After gluing the flower heads onto the branch (and letting it dry), I used my white gel pen to add dots to the center of each flower.

For the border, I used a pencil to lightly draw a square and then stamped my sentiment before using the Stampin' Write Marker to hand draw the rest of the border, using the pencil lines as a guide to keep the basic square shape.  I erased the lines before attaching the vase and flowers.


Here's a close-up view of the main image:





8 comments:

Stamps and Paper said...

A beautiful vase of flowers Loll....love your wavy edge frame

Anne

Susan said...

I love this card, Loll - now you're making me want to buy more dies!!!

Jeanne H said...

This is a very lovely card, Loll. I'll have to case it. Thanks for sharing it and for all your blog posts.

cathi139 said...

stunning!!! I love it
Cathi

Unknown said...

Gorgeous! Lovely design and a beautiful vase!

Anonymous said...

Beautiful Loll. so much detail here, love the gorgeous petals and the hand drawn frame , I would love to give that a go but am so afraid i would make a terrible mess.

Marie

Bonnie said...

Wow! All those tiny flowers each with detail! And a beautiful vase!

Unknown said...

oh wow, what a great card! The small flowers are such a great detail and it gives a wonderful dimension to your card!