Mel Stampz: Embossed Fresco Flowers (with a 5 petal flower punch & a Cuttlebug or whatever you have)

Mel Stampz: Embossed Fresco Flowers (with a 5 petal flower punch & a Cuttlebug or whatever you have)

Flowers To Print Freebie - Make Your Own Elements

A little freebie for you, print of the sheet and make some fabulous flower elements for your cards. Just right click on the image and save as, the file is in jpeg format.

Simply Flowers

Rain Rain Rain and more rain :-( I hope it doesnt go on for too long Im in desperate need of some warm sunny days.

So while we have been having all this rain I have been making a huge stash of my own flowers, hope you like it. I was inspired by Mels tutorial for making your own paper flowers if you would like to see her tut you can find a link in the post below.

I created a sheet of flowers in PSE and printed them out and then on the reverse side I printed a whole page of text using a flower poem, cut out the flowers and coloured in with promarkers on the text side. The picture doesnt show up the text very well, but the technique is very effective. Each flower is then shaped with a ball tool and seed beads are used for the centre, but you could use anything such as glitter or buttons and gems.

The leaves i just punched and the butterfly was embossed using the sticky stuff powder and the gold foil is then pressed onto the image, I love this technique as it gives such a lovely finish,  finally I coloured the butterfly with promarkers.

Using the same poem text in word I printed another sheet and made the ovals with my cuttlebug for the centre piece.

Click here for a flower freebie sheet

Mel Stampz: Caardvarks Photo Inspiration card (late late late out of date)

Mel Stampz: Caardvarks Photo Inspiration card (late late late out of date)

Mel Stampz: Fun Foam shapes for Big Kids: make stamps with your Cuttlebug!

After spending the morning browsing Mels blog I found another great idea and tutorial for making your own stamps, cant stop now im off to the craft shop to buy some fun foam lol, catch up with you all later, thats if
I can drag myself away from the craft desk long enough to post my makings.

Mel Stampz: Fun Foam shapes for Big Kids: make stamps with your Cuttlebug!

Mel Stampz: Book-page Mod Podge blossoms--(3D cherry blossoms à la Fred She Said)

If you like and use Fred She Said flowers your going to love this tutorial by Mel using the FSS digi flowers. What an amazing idea, Mel does have some pretty unique techniques to be found in her tuts, why not pop along and see for yourself. I cant wait to have a go at this idea and who knows I may even come up withmy own idea along the way.

So if you need a bit of inspiration on this wet and miserable day pop along here to Mels.

Mel Stampz: Book-page Mod Podge blossoms--(3D cherry blossoms à la Fred She Said)