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Nov 2, 2019

Allsorts Challenge 544: Make Your Own Flowers

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Today's card was made for our new theme at Allsorts challenge where Helene picked the theme of: "Make your own flowers." Hope you can join us and play along for a chance to win a beautiful stamp set by Buddly Crafts.




It's been a while since I added handmade flowers to cards, as I usually use stamps for flowers. But I still have all my dies and punches and for my flowers today I used a layered flower die set from My Favorite Things and my Big Shot manual die cutting machine to cut them out. I've had this die set for a very long time and it's no longer available, but there surely are several other beautiful flower die sets still available for purchase. This set by Spellbinders is similar and the flowers can be layered or use by themselves. I used the back end of a paint brush to curl each of the flower petals before layering and adhering to the card with glue dots.  



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I made the stencilled background with Tim Holtz's Flourish Stencil and used Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and an ink blending tool.  The stripes on the left side were done with a stripes stencil and Black Soot Distress ink. The paper for the flowers is old from my stash and I have no idea who the maker is. The sentiment is from the Penny Black set Friendship stamped with Versafine Clair Nocturne ink

The cardfront is Bristol Vellum Paper, framed with green card stock by Stampin up. For the card base I used heavyweight 110lb cardstock I picked up from Michael's. 




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26 comments:

brenda said...

Such a striking card Ellie and the black inked border adds such an interesting element and contracts with the greens and reds so well. Have a good weekend.

B x

Marilyn said...

Pretty card! Love the flowers!
Have a great day!
Marilyn❤

Ellibelle said...

Thanks Brenda!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks Marilyn!

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Loving those flowers!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks so much, Julie!

Wendy L said...

Love your flowers on uour pretty card, xxx

Amy Johnson said...

How pretty! I love the flowers you made!

Doreen said...

This is Just gorgeous a fab design. Thanks for sharing with us at Aud Sentiments.xxx

Kathleen said...

A really super background and some gorgeous flowers, super card.

Kath x

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

A so striking card, love the background and the black border that make the lovely handmade flowers pop!!

Vickie Y said...

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing with us at The PIP Challenge

Mervi said...

Beautiful flowers and pretty design;-))m

Sheryl said...

Beautiful card.
Thank you so much for entering our ATG challenge at Through The Craft Room Door this week. Looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Hugs Sheryl
TTCRD DT
Cat Crazy Craft Corner {My Blog}

Linby said...

It looks lovely especially with the pop of green.

Ellibelle said...

Thanks so much, Wendy!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks Amy!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks Doreen. Glad I could join in!

Ellibelle said...

Thank you Kath!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks so much Alice!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks Vickie. Happy I could join in!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks Mervi. I wasn't sure where I was "going" with this card, but do like how it turned out!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks so much Sheryl!

Ellibelle said...

Thanks Lynn!

Create With Joy said...

Such a beautiful card Ellibelle - the border gave it the illusion of being a journal at first! :-)

Joseph said...

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