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Cards and other handicrafts made by Jean Straw

Thursday 4 September 2014

Pretty Flowers

First off  today  I have to say Hi to Irish Cherokee who is my newest follower, thank you for for visiting and for choosing to join my followers.
Today's card was made in response to a request from my daughter who wanted a card for a lady she knows who is going to be eighty. Her only stipulation was for flowers so I chose this lovely Chocolate Baroque stamp. I don't know if they are supposed to be a particular type of flower that would influence what colour they should be, but I just see them as pretty flowers which leaves me free to use any colour I fancy at the time. I had just bought these yellow Promarkers to extend my collection which is what influenced me this time. I stamped the image onto white card with black memento ink and coloured it with the Promarkers. I used a snippet of brown card to mount it on, and to cut a mat for the sentiment. The light green card for the backing panel is embossed using Couture Creations Tied Together EF and fixed to a 5" x 7" white base card. I stamped part of the flower stamp twice more onto snippets of white card and coloured and fussy cut out first the two centre flowers with the leaves and then just the centre flower. I used silicon glue to layer them onto the original image
for dimension .Here is a close up photo of the layers. For the sentiment  I used an old peel off  coloured black with a permanent marker for the 80th and stamped the words above and below it. It looks a bit wonky on the screen but it didn't seem to notice so much IRL. The words are all joined together on the stamp and are also slightly curved, so I needed to ink only part of the stamp at a time and try to straighten it out a bit on the stamping block. The circles are cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities plain and scalloped circles.
I am going to enter this at The Craft Room Challenge - Use Something Old and Something New.( The Spellbinder dies were the first dies I bought several years ago, and peel off 80 is ancient. The yellow Promarkers, in fact I think all the Promarkers I used are new.)
I am also entering  Craft Hoarders Anonymous - All The Pretty Flowers.
The snippets of white and brown card I used will also get me through the gates to Pixie's Snippet Playground.

Thank you for taking time to visit today, I really appreciate your comments.

24 comments:

  1. I love this CB stamp Jean and the bit of decoupage you have done with the beautifully coloured image. That Tied Together EF is one of my favourite designs. I'm sure the lady adored this gorgeous card too. x

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  2. The color palette of this card is so lovely. The coloring is lifelike and beautiful, and I really like the way you added dimension. Beautiful workmanship! Thanks for sharing with us at Craft HOarders Anonymous Challenge #15: All the Pretty Flowers!

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  3. This is one beautiful card!! I love the dimension you added with the flowers, not to mention that gorgeous coloring and embossing! This is a real stunner too!
    I thought I'd become a follower previously, but did in fact become one today! Pardon me - I'm just a bit slow:)

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  4. Perfect card an 80 year old. Gorgeous flowers and card. - jim

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  5. Hi Jean

    What a fabulous card.

    Loving all the layers for the image and the beautiful embossed background.

    Lovely colour palette too.

    Hope you are having a good week.

    Love Jules xx

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  6. Lovely flowers Jean. You colour so well with those Promarkers. I find them hard after the brushes on my copics. I like the dimension from the decoupage layers too. Kate x

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  7. Just perfect Jean! I love the green and yellow together, with a smidgeon of brown. Super colouring of that great stamp - and of course the huge favourite Tied Together EF works beautifully - it reminds me of trellis on this card!

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  8. I keep going back up to look at the card. It is just lovely and I love the colors you chose to work with!
    I also love the embossed background! Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  9. So very pretty Jean, the flowers are gorgeous, love your decoupage, a really fabulous card.
    Hugs Jacee
    Simply Paper Card Design

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  10. Gorgeous card Jean huggles Sue xx

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  11. Beautiful flowers, its a lovely card.
    Yvonne

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  12. Delightful card lucky the lady who received this. Thank you for sharing with us at Craft-Room Challenge XOXO Zoe

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  13. This is beautiful Jean. I love the colours of your flowers. I think flowers can be whatever colour you like as somewhere in the world there will be flowers of all colours.
    Hugs
    xx

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  14. Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  15. Hi Jean,
    Thank you for becomming my newest follower.
    I returned the favor to you.
    Welcome at my blog.
    Greetings from Veerle

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  16. This is such a very pretty card, Jean! Love your choice of yellow for the flowers...I smiled when \I read that you chose yellow as you had just bought the new yellow pens and had the colours for shading...
    I hardly ever use purple for flowers. Although it is not my fave colour, it is the fave of several priends...but i only own 2 purple pens and they are starkly contrasted...not good for shading at all! teeehee...I shall have to get some new ones and use your logic and try them out!

    I did not know you were Kate's sister! Congratulations on the voucher prize at Di's. You must have such fun at Kate's. What cards you could get up to!

    I read her blog and even read the other blog about life there is Spain. She is so brave to start a new adventure like that!

    Maureen

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  17. This is a gorgeous card Jean and its lovely to have you join us at Craft Room Challenge this fortnight
    Hugs Annie x

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  18. Hello Jean, the flowers are lovely. I like it when you have a nondescript flower that could be any colour, and the yellow works perfectly.
    Thanks for your lovely comments

    Debs x

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  19. Hi Jean - such a pretty card, love your choice of colours (and your reasons!) I think yellow suits those flowers perfectly...Thanks so much for sharing with us at Craft-Room...Esther xx

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  20. Your flowers are beautiful. Thanks for sharing with us at Craft Hoarders Anon :)

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  21. Such a beautiful card, Jean! Your colouring is perfect! I associate this time of year with yellow flowers - sunflowers, Rudbeckia and Chrysanthemums. A Beautiful card x

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  22. what a stunning card, your colouring is just lovely, thanks for sharing with us at Craft Room challenge, Debi x

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  23. Very nice card, love the colors and the embossed backing. Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  24. Not only is your coloring beyond perfect, but the dimension you added! Fantastic! You are a gem of a card maker! Thanks for playing along with us at Craft Hoarders!

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