This week's Soartful Challenge was to use the Enchanted Castle image in the middle of the picture. The colours are so beautiful and romantic on this that I decided to make this one a larger image and printed it off onto lilac cardstock. I embossed the sides with my cuttlebug and highlighted the embossing with some lilac ink. I mounted the picture onto another piece of lilac cardstock and glued lace all around the edge. The 2 large paper flowers (4 layers)are made using an oval punch with scalloped edges and the smaller flowers (3 layers)with a circle punch. Using lilac cardstock again I cut the pieces out, edged them with deeper lilac ink on the front and back then sprayed them with a little water and scrunched them up. I opened them up and posted a brad through each layer scrunching them up again one at a time around the brad. The layers were opened up slightly and left to dry. It gives the petals a lovely wrinkled look. These were stuck onto the picture along with strips of white netting for stalks.
4 comments:
Paula this piece is just beautiful. Embossing the sides is genius. Your flowers are lovely. I just tried doing this same technique using tissue paper. They are OK at best. I'm going to try again with cs to see if I can make something half a pretty as yours.
Thanks for being Soartful this week.
beautiful piece and that added lace is just wow! thanks for sharing its enchanting ju x
beautiful piece!!
Thank you ladies, I thought the picture that Jeanette gave us was so pretty. I would like to stay there. Jeanette I hope you had better luck with the CS flowers.
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