Show Us Your Flowers!

My first post as a member of the Lets Ink It Up Design Team

and the Challenge is to 

Show Us Your Flowers!

Challenge # 21- 4th March to 26th March 2012

Challenge - SHOW US YOUR FLOWERS

Flowers may be handcrafted or shop bought.

Use your imagination

Sponsor - Lets Ink It Up Leader:  Suzanne

Prize package consists of the following

2 sets Handcrafted fabric flowers

(great to add to a handbag, brooch etc)

1 Pack white Prima flowers

1 Pack 1" Ivory Tea Roses

1 Pack 1" white foundation blooms

1 Pack 1" Rose Leaves

My contribution to this month's challenge is a decorated glass slider folder from Papercraft - and involved a lot of fiddly stuff.  This is the order of doing it but the time frame stretches over several months.

• Some time ago I purchased some glass slides - they sat in the cupboard for a loooong time
• Before Christmas I played with alcohol inks - one of the things I did was put the ink onto two glass slides (the brighter coloured slides). I also put some ink onto white card to clean up the applicator - that's the card under the other two slides. These sat on my desk for a long time too.
• I purchased two Kaiser stand alone stamps:  Parade and Deco Lamp - Parade is a line of 20's flapper girls and the lamp is an old-fashioned art deco style lamp - I had an idea I would stamp the slides with the Parade girls but too fiddly for me!
• I have been trying to use up my very large supply of background papers before I purchase new ones (a bit of a lost hope that) so earlier in February I scrounged out a set of 12 x 12's of Keeping Memories Alive called Dirty Laundry and used them to cover the folder and make the flowers.  I sanded all the edges and then inked them with Tim Holtz Distress Inks of various colours
• At this stage it became apparent that the middle join was not sturdy! I used some white material tape I have to bind it, after distressing it with various inks and the Annabelle Stamp set called Fanciful Flowers and Memento London Fog ink. I also stamped the sentiment at this stage using this set.

• I used this same ink to stamp the lamp post and to stamp various borders from a set called Grunge Corners by Lily Of the Valley
• Meanwhile I had stamped the Parade set onto SU Whisper White using Memento Paris Dusk. I carefully fussycut out two ladies and stuck them onto the glass slide the same side as the alcohol inks 
• I stuck a piece of white card behind them
• I got two clear slides and attached them to the white card I had cleaned up the alcohol ink applicator on, and trimmed around the edges - they have the same colours but more muted.

• Using the computer I generated a conversation between the two ladies and then distressed the card  before cutting it out and adding it to the top of the two clear slides: then I put all four slides into the folder

• The problem is of course, the slides run east-west and the card is north-south! Anyway, whilst doing this I cracked one slide! Bummer!

• Then I made a whole lot of flowers using various dies and the same DP and layered them onto the front of the card - the dies are: two Marianne Creatables (LR 0108 and LR0196) and two BossKut dies - large daisy and wild flower cut out.  The leaves and fiddly bits come from the Marianne dies.

• Two Kaiser brads and  two flower centres (one coloured to match with the trusty Copics) from Prima completed it. 

What'cha think?