Greenhouse frenzy!

Hello!

Instead of apologizing once again for my blogging absence I thought I'd treat you with a whole bunch of stuff on one day!

Yesterday, Nichole Heady issued a challenge on her blog to create some flower embellishments that you could present as a gift to a fellow crafter. She had several cool examples and I had seen some of Dawn McVey's awesome embellies done in this way so I thought I'd have a go myself! The wonders of being on half-term meant that I didn't have to rush to do just one before getting on with work stuff - I could play blissfully all day! So I ended up making three sheets of embellishments in three different colourways. I used the lovely Greenhouse Garden stamp set, which at the moment you can purchase with part of the price going to the Haiti earthquake appeal - Stampin Up are donating £1 from the sale of each set to this appeal so now is an excellent time to buy this one!

The first one I did was in soft colours of plum and saffron. Here's the card I made using some of my embellishments:

And here are the embellishements attached to a sheet of window plastic. I folded a strip of coordinating DSP over the top of the clear sheet which really adds to the presentation - thanks Nichole for this tip!

The large flowers were stamped with Pale Plum and Perfect Plum. I added a little flower in the centre of these that I stamped with Perfect Plum and Elegant Eggplant. I also added a pearl in the centre of these flowers (from the Pretties Kit). I threaded some cotton through the hole in the pearl then threaded it through the centre of the flower and tied in a knot at the back. I added a glue dot underneath the pearl to fix it to the little flower securely.

The medium-sized flowers were stamped with So Saffron and More Mustard and I added a Pumpkin Pie brad in the centre. I also added some glitter with a 2-way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

I then decided to go in a completely different direction and dip into my Bold Brights stampin spots - eek! This one turned out very tropical!

I scored two lines around the edges of the whisper white panel after stamping the stems to add a bit of interest. The sentiment is from Bella's Bloom.

These are the bold brights version of my flower embellishments.

As you can see I used the same stamps and format for my flowers - just changed the colours and embellishments.

I stamped the large flower using Tempting Turqouise and Brilliant Blue, the medium-sized flowers were stamped with Pixie Pink and Pink Passion. The small flowers were stamped with Yoyo Yellow and Only Orange.

To embellish the flowers I added turquoise gem brads through the centre of the blue flowers and added glass beads (from the Pretties Kit) to the centre of the pink flowers with a glue dot.

To attach the flowers to the clear sheet I used some Tombow (I put a small amount on the back of the flowers and left to dry before attaching to the sheet - this makes it repositionable).

This is my favourite version of my flower embellishments, and my favourite card out of the three - what a surprise that it uses Earth Elements colours lol!

I dipped into my non-SU stash for a few parts of this one - I used a curved border punch for the Very Vanilla strip on the bottom of the card and I used some stamps from Papertrey for the background and sentiment. The buttons in the centre of the red flowers are also from Papertrey.

For my earthy flowers I stamped the larger flower using Ruby Red and Chocolate Chip and added a chocolate button with linen thread through the centre.

The medium-sized flowers were stamped with More Mustard and Really Rust and I added a vanilla flat-back pearl in the centre. The small flowers were stamped with Really Rust and Chocolate Chip.

I love these flowers so much I don't think I'm going to be able to give them away - but hey they make really quick embellishments for your cards and they help a card come together super fast!

I hope you've enjoyed all my creativity yesterday - try having a go at this yourself - it's a lot of fun!!

Thanks for stopping by!

x Amy x