HIMCR Challenge #43

Good Morning Everyone,

 Hope everyone is ready to enjoy their weekend. Today begins a new

challenge over at Hiding In My Craft Room. Challenge #43 April

Showers bring.........Homemade Flowers. In my header picture is my

homemade flower card. In making this card I used my Gypsy, Cricut

and the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge. I used my gypsy because in

order to make a shape card out of it I would have to flip my second

image so when I folded the card that the petals would match. I then

made sure to overlap the flower ever so lightly and welded it together.

The base of the card is cut out at 4-1/4"  then the rest are cut at

3- 1/4",  2-1/2",  1-3/4", 1-1/4" and 3/4". I cut all of the flowers

out of white cardstock. The reason for that is that I was going to

do the alcohol ink and shaving cream technique but when I went

to use the shaving cream it wasn't working. So the technique that

I used to colour the flower is a water color pencil and a water misting

technique. I colored most of the flower in the middle then misted it

with water. I used crumpled up wax paper to pull the color to the

edge of the flower.

I curled the edges by using just my fingers. I punched a hole in the

middle of all the loose flowers and used a small brad to hold them all

together which then I only needed to glue one piece to the base. The

green leaf also come from the same cartridge that the flower comes

from. I cut the leaf out at 3-1/2"

I hope you enjoy my flower. We would love for you to come join in on

our challenge over at HIMCR. To join in follow the link below.

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/04/himcr-43-april-showers-bring.html

Please make sure to check out what the rest of the desing team created.

The ladies are all so very talented and creative.

Until my next post Have a Splendid Day!!!!