Papertake Weekly - Something Different

The challenge at Papertake this week is to do something different. I decided to have a go at some of these Carnation like flowers I've been seeing in blogland lately. I followed the directions found here. I didn't follow the directions exactly as I used three different sizes of nestabilites rather than a scallop punch. This made a slightly flatter flower than if you use all one size but they're still pretty bulky so I'm gonna have to make a box for this card, something else I don't usually do. But the really different thing for me was making a one colour card with no inked edges. I found this REALLY hard to do, so hard in fact that I had to make another very similar card with inking and sanded/distressed edges. Just regular flowers on the second one so I can easily put it in the post. Can't really decide which one I like the best.

Couple of Challenges

Now that it's made I think this card is a bit busy. Now I assemble my card completely before I actually stick anything down but some how I didn't see that it was busy till I had stuck everything down. Too close to it I suppose. Anyway it's for the following challenges:

Papertake - Angels or Fairies. I've taken that to mean winged people so I hope my pixie counts.

Truly Scrumptious - A sketch with an Indian Summer theme. Gardening is something I associate with summer so think this is pretty summery.

A Spoon full of Sugar - Distressing. I've inked and distressed pretty much everything here.

Floral Fantasy

This week's SFOSC is right up my street as it's no hardship for me to use lots of flowers on my cards. I've used K&Co papers and tag. The flowers are a combination using the HOTP fold back swirls template, EK Success retro punches and Woodware and Hobbycraft daisy punches, all inked and shaped. The sentiment is by TAC. A little bit of stitching and distressing finished it off nicely I thought. TFL