Flower Power

Hello all!

As I stated before, a friend of mine was looking for donations for silent auction items for a very dear organization called Tiny Hands of Hope. To recap, it's an organization that gives support and awareness to pregnancy and infant loss. It's such a tabboo subject because of what it is, but it can't be. Women and men need to have that freedom and support to be able to talk openly and grieve.

It was definitely an honor to be part of that.
I went all out to make something that I would want to put a bid on myself. I got a LOT of use out of my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals for this one. I have made the tattered roses a bunch of times (big shout out to my girl Rhonda for showing me how! and for the die- she's too sweet!) but I wanted to get more out of it so I broke out my stylus and piercing mat to manipulate and form the paper and just layered them up. The boxed set includes 9 3x3 notecards that DO NOT fit in the envelopes. Sigh. Lol the flowers were just too big. So I had added photo mounting squares on the backs so they could be adhered to gifts.

I also created 9 greeting cards in 3 different styles. One was the traditional A2, one was a Z fold card with the 'z' part just cut off and the last one was a fun one. I did an A2 tent fold card, but then I cut the front to only 1 inch, and then had a 3.5x2.5 layered sentiment 'floating' in the middle and attached to a 1 inch strip on the bottom to keep the traditional A2 size.

The other thing I wanted to do to create the colors was take my copics and actually color the flowers instead of just inking them. I took the darker shade and starting with one petal working inside out, I flicked the color outward. I then took the next color- a few shades lighter- and blended towards the edge leaving a bit of the whisper white left to use the lightest shade to blend it all. If you wanted to you can even use a coordinating color to dot the petals with a darker color to create floral dimension.
Then, of course, finish it off we got some clear Stickles.
So this beautiful boxed set was inspired by the new bridal colors of the season- navy (Daper Denim), blush (Powder Pink), and Vanilla (Very Vanilla).

I used the Hardwood background stamp which is perfect to create rustic and shabby chic cards. Especially partnered with the Gorgeous Grunge set because it gives that... well 'grungy' chic.
I also love the Beautiful Bouquet set. Not only am I all about those flowers ;) but I adore versatile stamp sets for a variety of ocassoins with the same font so you can interchange them. And the font on this stamp set is absolutely gorgeous.

I created a box that was 8.5x11which was really hard to construct. I used the book binding technique to peice together the base in separate parts. It's tough because scrapbook paper to bind the pieces together only comes in 12x12 so I didn't have much to work with for edges. But I think I made it work!

Well that's it for me! I hope you're all inspired.

~Brandie~