2018-04-27; Recollections flowers – stepped up

When you buy a box of assorted Recollections flowers; you always get a color or shape you are not in love with.  In this sample I’m showing what they flowers looked like before & after.  The flowers on the lower left are a dirty beige color and I had them in all shapes and sizes.  They really came that way, looking kind of dirty to me.  The photo on the right shows how I stepped them up by dying (the green base leaves), scrunching/stacking & glitter gluing them together.

I think the top flower is stacked 6 layers  with assorted petal shapes having been stacked.  The lower, smaller one is 4 layers and look to all be the general shape of petal.

And here a card that I added the stepped up flower to.  I kept to a beige color scheme so that the flower would match better.   I also used a couple of new dollar store finds…the white flowers and the gold colored gems.  Other dollar store additions are some glittered acrylic dots and the 3-d cherish sentiment sticker.

Here is a close look at those flowers.  The stepped up flower had a space in the center so I added a 1/2 pearl with more glitter glue.  The white flowers as mentioned earlier, are a new dollar store find.  I also added lots of assorted lace on this card along with leaves found on my desk.  I just tore them in bits and tucked them in where it needed some filler.  In the background you can see some additional filler items; die cut leaves, acrylic glittered dots, pear shaped 1/2 pearls, liquid pearl drops and waxed cord used for twine.

I’m still working on using  the dollar store sentiment  sheet of 3-d stickers.  And yes, I bought another sheet in as different theme in brighter colors at my last visit.  You can look forward to seeing what I can do with them soon.

 

The only rubber stamping on this card is found on the  rubber stamped hand made banner.

And here is the other, newest dollar store find–adhesive backed sheet of gems.  They were in assorted colors.  I picked the gold as it looked better than the other bolder colors they had on hand.

Here I’ve cut off two rows of the gems and used it as a border.

And one more look at the card before you go on about your day…

 

Stepping up purchased flowers?

Here are some other tries at stacking the Recollections flowers.   This was a hit and a miss   lol!    These will definitely be taken apart and scrunched up to see if that helps.

And finally a comparison between the stacked version and the scrunched/glittered version.  No question, the scrunched/glittered version wins, hands down.

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

I added this card to these challenges:

Penny’s Paper challenge-anything goes.

and

Anything goes challenge #45 at CardzTV