Saturday, February 13, 2010

DIY Floral Embellishments

A few days ago, I made my own floral embellishment. I really liked it, it was a lot of fun to make, but I didn't know what to do with it. I was thrilled to see what today's PTI contest was- make a sheet of floral embellishments and design a card using one! I quickly put together more embellishments based on the one I made earlier in the week.

I used Stampin' Up!'s Pretties kit (something I have maybe used once or twice). I inked up the flowers with the tea inks then stamped a polka dot or a text pattern in craft ink overtop. The final touch was to stamp a few cream buttons with brown Stazon and attach those to the flowers.
Designing a card around the embellishments wasn't too difficult. I kept with the vintage theme, using kraft, rustic cream and dark chocolate paper.


Supplies:
Stamps: Signature Greetings, Background Basics: Text Style I, Polka Dot Basics II
Ink: Chocolate Chip Craft, Dark Chocolate, Chamomile and Chai Tea
Paper: Kraft, Rustic Cream, Dark Chocolate
Accessories, etc.: Flowers, Polytwill, buttons, twine

12 comments:

  1. Oh my, Natasha! Stamping on the white buttons! What a great idea! I have drawn on them before, but never stamped- perfect!!

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  2. Awesome - I didn't realize you're a fellow Canuck! Love your vintage-ish buttons & flowers; they rock! I follow the Clean & Simple blog in my Reader; I'll be adding this one, too! Stay warm!

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  3. Great job with this challenge! Why have I never thought of stamping images onto my primas??!!

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  4. The buttons stamped with the text stamp are very cool.

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  5. Very pretty I love what you did with the SU flowers!

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  6. LOVE your embellies and card! FAB!

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  7. Terrific work! I love the words over the buttons. I keep forgetting this! Thanks for the reminder. Love the card you made!!!!

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  8. I'd forgotten all about stamping on flowers ... thanks for the reminder. Love what you've created!

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  9. What a great idea - I definitely need to pull out some of my neglected embellishments and freshen 'em up :)

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  10. Natasha - thanks for commenting on my blog. Love how you stamped the buttons. Very innovative.

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  11. Those are beautiful embellies! Love the flower! Thanks for sharing.

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