For my flowers I've used some Clearly For Art film and some packaging from a Sizzix Bigx die to compare the two. I've cut the flowers with my Tattered Florals die in the Cuttlebug and the purple were coloured with Raspberry, Wild Plum & Silver alcohol inks and the greenish ones with Lettuce, Pool & Stream inks. They were all heated with a heat gun and shaped with my fingers. The Clearly for Art ones are definitely thicker but the packaging ones seemed to hold the heat for longer making them easier to mould to the shape I wanted. This is the result
I've used the green ones on my card for this challenge - green seems to be prominent on my cards at the moment - must be the sunshine we've been having as everything in the garden is looking so lush. The sentiment is from the Indigo Blu Poppy Meadow set cut with Nesties and layered on scraps of card. I've stuck the flowers down with sillcone which shows through so I've added some vintage buttons to the centres. As I've used some scraps I'm also entering this into into Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground - why not pop over and have a play too
so gorgeous kim.i love the green and your flowers are fabulous ;D
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Great flowers Kim. They look really effective.. Callyx
ReplyDeleteWow Kim - these flowers are fabulous! How clever - and using up packaging as a comparison is a great idea. Both results are brilliant and the card you made is gorgeous.
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Can't close my mouth!!!! You are truly talented Kim and you always amaze me, these flowers are......breathtaking!!! Love love love them!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the green color, they pop just from the card and your poem is beautiful!!
Thank you só much for joining us this week at Cuttlebug Mania!
Cuttlebugs & Hugs
Jannie
These flowers are just amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow Kim! These are stunningly beautiful. I've had alcohol inks on my wish list for ages and you've just given me another reason to get them. Brilliant :) Cathy x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers - so fab - almost like shrink dinks but with class... LOL - Mxx
ReplyDeletewhat amazing flowers .............I really must have a try at this lol
ReplyDeleteTilly
Stunning!
ReplyDeleteVery clever - I love the idea of using packaging - beautiful card.
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous Kimbo. I love recycled projects and love the colours you have used. Been a while since I got my hands inkied with alcohol ink!
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Brilliant work Kim!! just love it have joined your blog
ReplyDelete(and hope you might pop over to mine too :D). I find that truly mind blowing method.. can see butterflies etc would look great with it as well...
... and also tell me? I take it was just acetate packaging that you used??
- thanks so much for sharing, Shaz in Oz.x
PS well done on candy win too :D
Hi Kimbo, the flowers are stunning - the colours are gorgeous and the finished card is fabulous. Another recycling project to try - just got to find some packaging :) Elizabeth xx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers Kim, they look like glass. I'm just popping over to Youtube to find out more about this film. I've never heard of it before. More things to spend my money on!! Thank you for joining in at Cuttlebug Mania this week.
ReplyDeleteI saw this at the playground Kim - absolutely stunning work and I wondered if we could do this with that awful plastic packaging - so thank you for sharing your experiment and beautiful card with us hugs Karen x
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful flowers, looked like exquisite glass. I thought perhaps it might be plastic with alcohol inks - so was glad to find I guessed correctly. I recently tried a punch with the alcohol on leftover plastic. Didn't realize I should heat & then shape better. Thanks for that good tip. Your card is so lovely, with the marvelous flowers and such gorgeous centers as well. TFS & for the heat tip too. The film you mentioned is a new product to me. Hugs
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