Flower Embellishments

Make textured flower embellishments from chipboard!

"When you have only two pennies left in the world,
buy a loaf of bread with one,
and a lily with the other.
~Chinese Proverb"

Making textured flower embellishments is a lot of fun! That was one of the challenges at the Stampin' Out Alzheimer's fundraiser. I decided to break out the flocking powder for this one.

The choice was entirely 'free' so I picked a chipboard flower shape as my base to add texture to. Here's what it looked like in its raw state:

Then I turned my attention to the top layer of the flower and got out my rainbow paint daubers. I chose the yellow rose coloured ink. It has such a nice shimmer to it. I covered both sides of this layer too.

TIP: Use a heat gun to speed up the drying time of the ink and the paint but be careful not to scorch the chipboard.

After that I added the flocking powder. You can use a similar technique to the embossing technique - choose your colour, add some glue to the places on the chipboard that you want to cover in flocking powder, then pour the flock onto the glue.

Unlike embossing, lightly press the powder into the glue afterward.

Of course, save your excess powder by pouring it back into its packet to be used another time.

After the glue has dried, add some Kindy Glitz where you like the look of it. Once that is dried, you can build your textured flower and use it for scrap booking, card making, or embellishing any project you have in mind!

I decided to use my flower embellishment to make a card, of course, as that was the challenge requirement. I stamped out some more flowers on white paper in three different coloured inks, punched out a circle shape in the lower right hand corner, added a sentiment behind that in the body of the card, and placed them on my card. I used pop dots (dimensional tape) to build my flower. Then I added a trail of Kindy Glitz to tie everything together.

Here's the result:

Here's a close up, sideways view of the finished textured flower:

I hope you are feeling inspired to make your own textured flower embellishments now! Use glitter or thick paint, flower soft, use your piercing tool or even consider sanding and embossing as textural elements, or tell me about another way you have thought of to create texture.

And if you joined the Stampin' Out Alzheimer's Community (it was only available till May 31st 2009) do let me know!

Hmmm. Tomorrow I'm going to try a button challenge I think...

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Please do show me your entry for the Challenges, with a picture or two or three, and a few words about how you made your creations.

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