Saturday 23 March 2013

Paper, beads but NO stamps!

I'm playing with paper again today - following Betsy Veldman's tips to create your own floral embellishments from patterned paper. - although I haven't been quite as elaborate as she was with her layers and stitching.




I started with some fussy cutting from a sheet of 8x8 paper from the Citrus Stack from DCWV which has lots of lovely glittered flowers and leaves.  I layered them with pinflair glue for dimension and added gems to the centres.  I stuck them to a piece of white card embossed with the PTI hessian plate for some subtle texture and then popped leaves cut from the same sheet of paper around the flowers and added some bicone beads to be flower buds.  My sentiment is cut using lobster font on my cameo from copic colouring card which I then coloured with cadmium red and chrome orange copics to give a blended look to match the flowers.

I've also added beads to represent buds on my design as my effort for this week's rather tricky challenge at Less is More http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/week-112-recipe-use-beads.html  and as I haven't used a single stamp anywhere it is also my entry to the equally tricky CASual Friday's challenge as well http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/cfc95.html

18 comments:

  1. Delightful project - lovely spring like colours too

    Kathyk

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  2. Hi Tara
    Fabulous card... Love the flowers
    Hugs Sylvie x



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  3. Wow this is beautiful. Love it.

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  4. such 'eye poppin appeal' with these designer paper embellishments

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  5. Such a cheerful lovely card!

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  6. Very pretty, love the colours

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  7. So bright and beautiful! I do like the flowers and the pretty bead embellishments!

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  8. ohhhh...ahhhh.... AMAZING!!!
    Thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!
    Sylvia xx

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  9. Great sunny card Tara xx Jan

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  10. Fabulous Tara. You just know I can`t resist those colours lol.
    Lynne xxx

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  11. Beautiful colors on this Tara! I took that class too, but haven't posted any of my cards yet. I love that subtle embossed background too!

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  12. This is gorgeous Tara, you must be really pleased with this one!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  13. Wowza! This is a beauty! I cannot believe you fussy cut that, I thought it was a die cut for sure! Gorgeous! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  14. i love this tara... so bright

    Thanks for joining us this week
    Jen xx
    "Less Is More"

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  15. gorgeous card! I love the colors you used and the clean and simple design of your card is lovely! :)

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  16. fun- love the colors! thanks for playing along with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  17. You nailed this lesson in class, love how you've arranged those bright flowers :0)
    Jenny x

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