Flowers for Flowergal36

I don’t always post the challenge I do with some friends on SCS each Monday, but this one was so interesting I thought I’d share!

Now, it wasn’t until I was uploading the pics from the camera to the computer that I realized I did the “technique” a little wrong!

I got the idea from Spellbinders blog,  to use real flowers and press them onto paper using the Wizard. (except I used cardstock instead of watercolor paper like they said…oops) I went out and picked several color Impatience and some leaves, arranged them on the Top Note and ran it through. It left rather an icky mess of “juice”, but the I love the outcome!!

Oh, this is for our CNFS (catchy name featured stamper ), Dawn (great name by the way!), flowergal36 on SCS.

A very quick card that “looks” involved but really isn’t! Gotta love that kind!

I trimmed the main Top Note so I could layer it on another one, then pierced it. The sentiment is from Hero Arts, the Hydrangea is an Anna Griffin stamp, the background stamp is Picotage Print from Cornish Heritage Farms. I even had some AG ribbon to match. The lace is just some old stuff I’d saved off a piece of clothing.

Now, to try it the RIGHT way and skip the ooey-gooey part! lol

Here it is on watercolor paper. It’s amazing how much water is in leaves and flowers!
Those dots are from the edge of the leaf! It was just some weed I picked.

Impatience flowers and the leaves.

Impatience worked the best out of the 3 flowers I tried on this piece…they seem to be a little “meatier” than the Flox and Primrose.

The “bluish” color is the Flox, the yellow is the Primrose.
It’s almost Monet-like…I kept it simple so as not to distract from the beauty of the pressed flowers. It’s only attached close to the spiral punched edge, even though I tried to “flatten” the wc paper, it’s still wavy which I think just adds to the character of the card.

Well, hope I’ve given you some ideas and maybe you’ll try pressing your own flowers onto paper. And if you’d like to see what the other girls did for flowergal36, check out our blog.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn