Flowers On A Log

This week I am rather excited to share this post with you all, as I was so pleased with the result and hope you like it too. I have had some fun making several Handmade Flowers. I love how each flower can look so different just changing colours and the way you build them up. My Husband and I love going around Car Boot Sales especially on a nice hot summers day. Unfortunately, we have not managed to get to them in the past few years, but we still have several of our finds around the house.  I purchased one day a little vintage ornament that resembles a log with porcelain flowers on the top. You often see these with flowers chipped on them, so I was so pleased it had no damage and I probably purchased it for a Pound.I have often looked at it and thought I could replicate it in some way, so with making all my flowers I thought it was an ideal project to do.

The log was made from my new Crafters Best Friend....Cardboard. I tend to keep every bit of packaging I get at the moment and had a piece of cardboard I ripped the top layer off to reveal the corrugation. I glued and rolled my cardboard up into an oval round shape. I then painted with several colours and stamped some ink on to achieve the look of my log. I sealed with Mod Podge matte and rubbed on a little gilding wax.

Using a piece of white cardstock I die cut out my leaves with Magnolia Rose leaves die. I then applied Bundled Sage distress stain, which pooled into the parts of the embossed veins of the die cut. I dried with my heat gun and then went into the edges with the co-ordinating ink pad and stamped on a script stamp again using sage distress ink. Had I used Archival, I would have had a crisp image left of the script, but I just wanted to leave textures of ink. So when I pressed the molded leaves into my Versamark the script image blurred into just texture with distress ink being reactive to another fluid. I double embossed to give the look of China. This would also give me a contrast from my matte finished flowers.

All my flowers started off from white cardstock being die cut. I like to use Pergamano Glue when making my flowers as it takes grip quickly.
My Carnations were made using the CL Sweet Williams strip. I shaded the petals with distress inks and then rippled the petals by bending the paper over my tweezers.

My Daisy was made using the CL Shasta Daisy strip. I shaded with distress ink and stain and stamped a number stamp on with Archival Ink. The centre has Flower soft in it.

My Gardenia was made using the CL Gardenia strip. Shaded with Tattered Rose Distress.

My Rose buds were made using CL Large and Medium rose, shaded with Distress Ink and Stains. The leaves on the roses were shaded with distress stain and then I stamped with Versafine ink a script stamp.

This flower was made with an old die (not sure what its called). I shaded with Distress and stamped a leaves stamp with Archival ink and distress. The Yellow Rose was made in the same way, sorry don't seem to have a close up image of this one.

I have made several flowers over the past couple of days as it has been trial and error placing the different sizes and colours to see what looked best, so I now have plenty in my craft stash. Finally, I decided on their placement and positioned my leaves and flowers onto my log with pinflair glue.

Hope you have also managed to get some crafting done this week. Look forward to catching up with your blogs and I would love to hear your comments on my Flower Log.

Take Care, Julie x

I would like to enter this into :
  
Frilly and Funkie - Bloomin' Marvellous
WLVC Challenge 20
Crafty Hands - Heat and Dry Challenge
Vintage Udfordring - Challenge 75 Paint/Spray
ABC Challenge - F is for Flowers
Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Build it Up


Products Used : Dies and glue as listed in text, Paperartsy MN23, Magnolia script stamp, Inkylicious small leaves stamp.Distress Inks and Stains : Tattered rose, Bundled Sage, Milled Lavender, Shaded Lilac, Victorian Velvet  and Scattered straw.
Distress Paints : Walnut Stain, Antique Linen and Forest Moss. PaperArtsy paints Little Black Dress and Chocolate Pudding.Archival Ink : Pale Ochre and plum. Versafine Spanish Moss. Versamark, Stampendous detailed clear powder.Flowersoft Raspberry Fizz, Treasure Gold White Fire.