Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Birthday Beauty ~ Scrap-Friendzy March Challenge #10 ~ Flowers

Here is a layout of Grace at her 5th birthday party.  She looks so happy and so pretty.

My challenge to the Girlz at Scrap-Friendzy is to create or alter a flower for their layout.  Here is my example:




I pleated 1 1/2" by 1 yd torn strips of muslin, then loosely machine stitched the edge and gathered to form into these double layered flowers which I glued onto cardstock circles with Fabri-tac glue.  I rescued from the trash, the uneven strip that I tore off the end to make the twisted fabric centers which I dyed with watered down alcohol ink.

Here's a close-up of the flowers:

I used:
MME - Kraft/red print paper
Basic Grey - blue/white print paper, green leaves, yellow swirls
Red Cardstock ~ stash
Sewing machine/thread
Martha Stewart ~ Waterfall around the border punch set
Tim Holtz Die for Sizzix
Ranger Alcohol Ink - to dye flower centers
Muslin from JoAnn's
Sewing machine/thread
Tim Holtz Distress Tool
Tsukineko chalk ink - black, pesto
Cricket Cartridge for cakes - leaf image
Honey bee scissors
Gazelle to cut title letters

I've entered this layout in:
Anything Goes Challenge Blog Challenge ~ Make your own embellishments ~ I made the flowers (4/5)
Scrap-Creations Challenge ~ Spring has Sprung ~ Hand made flowers represent spring 
Papertake Weekly Challenge ~ Just be Girlie ~ This is a feminine girly LO 
Crafty Cardmakers #42 ~ Special Birthday ~ 5th birthday (5/5) 
Pink Paper Paradise ~ Anything goes



Thanks for dropping by!


~ Blessings ~

9 comments:

  1. Great flowers, love them! Thanks for joining Anything Goes, K x

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  2. Very nice layout! You are so creative with things that the rest of us just throw away.

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  3. Very pretty LO to preserve those precious memories. I love your muslin flowers!! Thanks for sharing your creation with us at TT this week.

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  4. This is such a wonderful scrapbook page. Grace is such a cutie! I love those handmade flowers. Thanks for playing with us this week at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations and Good Luck!

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  5. The layout is beautiful. I love the fabric flowers. Thanks for joining us at Tuesday Throwdown.

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  6. i love the flowers!! I hope you had fun at the expo!!

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  7. Those flowers are great. Funny about creating the center from the piece that had been thrown away!

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  8. Very pretty! What great dimension you've added :)

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  9. gorjuss creation hun, such lovely colours and wonderful flowers, thanks for getting crafty with us at Crafty Cardmakers

    hugs
    Judie xx

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