Thursday 10 May 2012

white flower

This is the first time for ages that I have managed to take part in the Make My Monday challenge - this month the theme is florals, and this week they wanted lily of the valley or white flowers.
I don't have any lily of the valley stamps, but I do have this lovely lace flower from the new Chocolate Baroque lace fragments stamp set that I was itching to try out!
I also wanted to try the faux patina technique from Splitcoast Stampers, so got inky fingers and put them both together.
The flower was stamped in versamark and embossed in detail white onto SU crumb cake card, roughly torn out round the image and the edges inked with vintage photo DI - and I carefully added a very little ink onto the centre of the flower using a cotton bud.
The faux patina background starts out with an embossing folder - I tried several, and the ones that worked best were the cuttlebug harlequin pattern I used here and the SU vintage wallpaper, which both have smallish overall patterns that are fairly deeply embossed. The folder was inked with SU crumbcake ink before embossing, so you have an embossed white image on a pale background - I embossed twice to get a large enough piece of card. The card was then inked all over with distress inks, starting with tumbled glass and peeled paint, ending with vintage photo. After a few hours drying on a storage heater, I dabbed a versamark pad over the card, and embossed with detail gold EP - the random effect does mean that the background got a bit inked too, but it looked ok.
I used a white 5"x7" card blank, with a mat of SU chocolate chip card under the embossed panel.

13 comments:

  1. Oh I do love the combination of brown & white - that flower is absolutely splendid. Intrigued by the patina technique so shall have to have a look. Storage heaters are real workhorses in the current climate.
    Paula (PEP)

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  2. Love your card the brown and white looks fab together and I'm intrigued by you background technique.

    Jackie x

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  3. This is a gorgeous card for the challenge and I love the look of the background technique - something else to try so thanks for sharing details

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  4. A beautiful image which you have made into a lovely card with great texture. Lovely to see you at Make My Monday challenge again! Suzanne :)

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  5. This is absolutely stunning!!! LOVE the bright white against brown! Thank you for joining us at MMM! :)

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  6. Great contrast of colours on your card Veronica - thanks for joining in this week at MMM - Jacqueline xx

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  7. Love this card don't know how you have made it but it is stunning. Hugs x ChrisB

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  8. Your background is a work of art Veronica and the white flower looks fabulous with it!

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  9. A wonderful image with which you have made a stunning card. I too love the colour combination. Nice to see you back entering our challenge, at MMM. Caz

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  10. A stunning image Veronica which you have turned into a stunning card! thank you for joining us at MMM
    suzi b xx

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  11. A lovely card Veronica. The flower is simply gorgeous and so striking on the kraft background.
    Thanks for joining us at Make My Monday to share your lovely creation.
    Fliss x

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  12. Isnt this stamp just fabby x great card xx

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  13. Argh, I really must get those gorgeous lace stamps. this is lovely Veronica and I love that faux patina background. Very effective and I haven't tried it yet so thanks for the how to details.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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