May You Be Blessed

At the Our Daily Bread Designs Blog the Stamping In Time: On Assignment Challenge (SNTODBD39) we are to use something recycled.  Since I work at a school and I have children in school, we have a large box with extra school supplies.  I was looking through the box and spotted an old pink poly two-pocket folder that was fairly thin and I thought the color would be pretty for a flower.  I had wanted to play with my new sets of stamps, Sweet William and Sweet William Small, from Our Daily Bread Designs and was suddenly inspired to use the folder with the stamps.

I stamped the flowers with dark brown Stazon ink on the folder and cut them out with the Spellbinder Blossom Three dies.  I did some layering but really wasn’t pleased with how it looked.  Also, even though Stazon is permanent ink, it seemed to still come off a bit.  I decided to heat set it and commented to one of my friends that I better be careful not to melt it.  She responded by telling me to see what happened if I did melt the ends of the petals a bit.  Of course, I had to try.  I cut between the petals and applied heat to the ends of the petals, one at a time.  They started to warp and curl up on the ends.  Then I heated the center and pressed down with a large tip stylus.  I loved the look so I made three different sizes and layered them.  For the centers I added some beautiful buttons I found this last weekend.

I decided to make this quite large (8” x 8”) because I wanted to give the flowers plenty of room.  I also thought it might be nice to frame it.  I added some pleated ribbon to the left side and some wonderful pearl embellishments.  The green pearls and pink flower pearls around the sentiment are Basic Grey.  The sentiment is from ODBD’s Happy Birthday set.  I stamped it in brown and cut it out using Joy! Crafts’ Oval Multi Frame Die and layered it on brown, cut out using Spellbinders Label 20.
E. Marie

This project is entered in the following challenges:

Our Daily Bread Designs Stamping In Time: On Assignment Challenge SNTODBD39) – Recycled

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything Goes!

Totally Gorjuss Challenge #90 – Punch or Die

Crafts and Me Challenge #44 - Add A Flower

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #47 – Wedding

Paper Cutz Challenge #101 - Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #65 – Focus on the Sentiment

Stamp Something Challenge – Favorite Embellishments (flowers and pearls)

Totally Stampalicious Challenge – Anything Goes
Top Tip Challenge 44 - 'Make it Girlie' (Tip:  How to make flowers)

Paper Pretties Monday Challenge PPMC02 - Make It Shine

Fanatical About Botanical Challenge in the Moxie Fab World

Flourishes Bring Back the Beautiful – Summers

Basic Grey Challenge #49 - Sketch