' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: May Flowers

Saturday, 23 May 2015

May Flowers

For this month's calendar challenge at the Craft Barn we are asked to include flowers and the colour magenta. This time I have decided to give the calendar centre stage and create a flowery frame.


The flowers have been stamped following the Rubber Dance colour scheme (the flowers are 3 steps stamping), then die-cut with the matching dies (Papertrey Ink).

I chose a transparent plastic as a base for May and arranged my flowers on it.


Sounds simple, but I spend a whole afternoon stamping & die-cutting my blooms! And only 12 flowers and a few leaves to show for it... (I stamped some extra for later use)

Thanks for coming by,

Also entering the We Love to Create and Stamping Sensations challenges and especially for Bev from  Uniko Studio,who has her birthday in May!

19 comments:

  1. Stunning flowers Christine and the vivid colours really pop against the crisp white.

    Many thanks for joining in at Stamping Sensations this month.

    B x

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  2. A great idea with stand out flower images

    Love Chrissie xx

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    1. Thank you Fiona! I went to check your calendar page and I like your textured flowers. As to the Magenta colour... I had to check on google if it was red or pink!

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  4. All that stamping and die-cutting was worth it! Fabulous page, and I love the transparent base.

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  5. Your flowers are gorgeous, and well done for the forethought of cutting more for later, (I always forget), I like your idea of using a transparency for the backing; I like the scalloped edge.
    Thanks for your comment on my page, I'm glad you like my flowers. You did miss those butterflies, you can see them here if you like http://twinkletoes2day.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/anti-journal-pages-and-little-flutter.html
    But now I have five more at the chrysalides stage, in the net habitat, and I don't think they will be long in emerging, there is the occasional twitch happening. I will post photos once they appear :-D.

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  6. Fabulous flowers and stunning colours! Thank you for sharing your gorgeous calendar with us at Stamping Sensations.

    Lynne

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  7. WOW, your flowers are gorgeous and so beautifully coloured in! Thank you so much for entering our May challenge. Love the whole piece! Well made and really unique looking.

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  8. Those flowers look so good in those colours! Thank you for sharing at Stemping sensations!

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  9. Gorgeous calendar page. You can really tell the time and effort that went in to it.

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  10. LOVE the colours of the blooms, so bright and cheerful. Such a creative calendar too :) Thanks so much for sharing and joining in on the Uniko Studio Challenge. Hugs Bev x

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  11. Thanks for joining Stamping Sensations with this great entry, good luck.
    Happy crafting
    Tracy x

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  12. Beautiful blooms, fabulous colours. I love the floating effect of the frame thanks to the acetate.

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  13. Oh la la bravo, elles sont belles tes fleurs et tes fleurs, on dirait presque des 'die-cut' pré-imprimés tant elles sont parfaites!!

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  14. Absolutely beautiful! I love the way you've used the acetate - it looks like the calender and those flowers are floating! Just super. Thanks so much for playing along with the Uniko Studio Challenge!

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  15. Fab Calendar page with the acetate and the flowers are gorgeous. Time well spent in making them x

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  16. Great idea to use acetate for a change and I love those flowers - just what we need to brighten up May!

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  17. Oh, this is amazing, love the use of acetate here!! Thank you for joining in The Craft Barn Challenge.
    Jane x

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  18. This is so awesome. I love your flowers! Thanks for joining our challenge over at Rubber Dance! Hugs, Susanne.

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