Saturday, October 16, 2010

Flowers for Friday

A Friday night with the kids sleeping so really just me home I decided to go and play with some flowers and have some fun.  I found this flowerpot while browsing through the www. and thought it looked adorable so ... as it goes I had to make one too lol.

I had a read through the tutorial and whipped a mock one up and played around with it.  I liked the idea, I just didn’t like the finished size or the versatility of it so ... as it goes I played some more and wallah!













To me this card is just too pretty to be laying down and not seen so I backed the back of the pot with an additional piece of card, folded it again and added a simple stand hold so now it can be up and displayed.  I also found I needed some extra height to firmly mount my flowers onto. 

I edged the edges with pink ink to make the pot more defined and I used a digi swirl image accented with pink and turquoise jewels as my design on the pot.  The image is a free image I have saved in my stash but I have no idea who it belongs to (if you do recognise the image can you please let me know so I can give credit to where credit is due, thanks).

What do I love
I love the flower border with the jewel flowers.
The image – the jewels just set the piece.
The fact it can now stand and be displayed!

Challenges this card is entering

* ABC Challenge – F is for Flowers - I got flowers (Fortnightly Wednesday’s)
 My Grafico – #70 Anything goes (Wednesday’s)
 Charisma Cardz - #41 More than one fold – I have 3 (Thursdays)
* Design Dollies - Pink, Turquoise & White – I have Pink ribbon, edging, flower and jewels, Turquoise flower and jewels & White card and flower centre of focal flower.
Stamps R Us – All Nature – It’s a flower pot with flowers that’s nature. (Mondays)

Fair winds and following seas.
~~The Navy Wife ~~

9 Treasured comments:

jimlynn said...

Simply BEAUTIFUL!!!!! They look so real.
Wonderful card.
Lynn

Gem said...

ooh this is beautiful! Love those big flowers! Thanks for joining in the challenge this week at Charisma Cardz! Gemma :)

Anonymous said...

Fab card, what a brilliant idea ! The flowers look so real ! Thanks for joining us at ABC Challenge. Sue C x

Heidi said...

Oh my gosh, this is beautiful. At first I thought it was a flower pot. Then as I scrolled down, I see its a card. So amazing. Thanks for playing along with the ABC Flowers challenge

Laura said...

Oh how cute is this! Very creative.Thanks for joining us at stamps r us

My Inkie Fingers said...

Stunning!! Beautiful!! Amazing!! I love it =)

Thanks for playing in the MyGrafico Challenge.

Good Luck!
~Cindy-Lynn~

Marilyn said...

Beautiful & so creative! Thanks for joining us at Stamps R Us Blog.

Dannette said...

Soooo pretty! Great job! Hugs, Dannette

KarenB said...

Wow...this is so pretty! I love all sorts of flowers and your 'flower pot' creation has really grabbed my attention. Gorgeous work.

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