'Tattered Florals' Flowers

Hello Everyone,

create your own layered creation using the tattered floral die made from any kind of papers, materials, you name it.  use any kind of inks, sprays, paints, stamps, or stencils.  it can be any kind of project from a card, wearable, or mixed media…but it must use the tattered floral die. - See more at: http://timholtz.com/tattered-floral-challenge/#sthash.iz2Tz9vl.dpuf

Most of you will know by now that Tim Holtz has a Challenge going on inviting creations using his 'Tattered Florals' Die here, and as you can imagine it has drawn out the best of the best in the upper echelon of creators........ I love this die, and I make most of my flowers with it, I wanted to enter this Challenge very much, but when I perused through the thumbnails, I have to to be honest and say I was very intimidated  by the entries... I thought this is way out of my league.
But on introspection I concluded that these people are the minority, and my work is pleasing to me and I hope inspiring to some, so with these thoughts I am entering this card, it may be overlooked, but at least I am giving it a go, as I really want to enter this Challenge.

I will take you through the process on how my flowers were made.

A selection of painted papers some are water colour and some are dylusions.

I cut the whole set of flowers out but I did not use all the shapes.

I used these two sizes using my balling tool to break down the fibres of the paper and curl them upwards, I now layer up glueing down as I go.

I have cut a petal out of one shape and two petals out of the next one because I am working towards the centre, this may seem backwards to many, and there is no reason why you cannot work from the centre outwards, whichever you prefer, it works both ways.

Keep going until you like your shape and how big you want your Flower.

I am stopping here.

I was trying to produce a Ranunculus flower, as the petals are often lustrous and quite beautiful.

Here I have finished shaping them and added the beads to their centres.

Arranging them was difficult, as the paper are not forgiving, but perseverance and wonder tape works together well.

My Bg needed to match my bouquet, I used Green as this is the palette of Nature.

The sentiment is from Penny Black 'gratitude' set.

I would also like to enter The Divas that cut March Challenge -'Anything Green'

and 

A new Challenge blog started this week- 'Country View Crafts'-pick and mix.

Thanks for visiting,

Smiles:)

Sue.

tattered floral challenge…

create your own layered creation using the tattered floral die made from any kind of papers, materials, you name it.  use any kind of inks, sprays, paints, stamps, or stencils.  it can be any kind of project from a card, wearable, or mixed media…but it must use the tattered floral die. - See more at: http://timholtz.com/tattered-floral-challenge/#sthash.iz2Tz9vl.dpuf

create your own layered creation using the tattered floral die made from any kind of papers, materials, you name it.  use any kind of inks, sprays, paints, stamps, or stencils.  it can be any kind of project from a card, wearable, or mixed media…but it must use the tattered floral die. - See more at: http://timholtz.com/tattered-floral-challenge/#sthash.iz2Tz9vl.dpuf

create your own layered creation using the tattered floral die made from any kind of papers, materials, you name it.  use any kind of inks, sprays, paints, stamps, or stencils.  it can be any kind of project from a card, wearable, or mixed media…but it must use the tattered floral die. - See more at: http://timholtz.com/tattered-floral-challenge/#sthash.iz2Tz9vl.dpuf

create your own layered creation using the tattered floral die made from any kind of papers, materials, you name it.  use any kind of inks, sprays, paints, stamps, or stencils.  it can be any kind of project from a card, wearable, or mixed media…but it must use the tattered floral die. - See more at: http://timholtz.com/tattered-floral-challenge/#sthash.iz2Tz9vl.dpuf