Many, many years ago my daughter gave me some dried flowers she purchased from somewhere and then she gave them to me because she thought I could use them on a card. Well those flowers sat in my craft room unused for years until I discovered them while cleaning out my craft room. My winter project this year was to clean out and reorganize my craft room. It was a huge undertaking and I still plan on doing a blog post about it. I donated truck loads of supplies I never used. When I came across the flowers, I felt bad that I never used the flowers given to me, so I decided to finally make that card with them.
Unfortunately, the flowers were so old by now they were very fragile; but I did my best trying to keep the blooms for disintegrating as I worked with them. To make my card I carefully glued the flowers to a white card panel, then to keep them from disintegrating further, I sprayed them with a fixative.
The flower panel looked very vintage to me, so I decided a vintage style card would look best with the dried flowers. I used designer paper that reminded me of old wall paper; it is from DCWV "Tres Chic". Then I added some lace and ribbon and put gold gems in the corners of the flower panel. the sentiment is a sticker.
Creating this card made me think that I should really press my own flowers from my garden. I have some Bachelor Buttons that would be perfect for drying. But if I do that, hopefully they won't sit for years before I finally use them 😀.
Have A Great Day! Amy
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The card turned out so beautifully. Love the vintage feel and wonderful dimension with the pressed flowers.
ReplyDeletePS: Thanks for the comment on my photo post. We finally went to Lake Geneva a little over a week ago and I thought it was wonderful (besides a restaurant visit on the lake). Hope to go back again soon. I too want to do that boat ride/ mansion visit. Have a great time this fall.
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed Lake Geneva, although now you have my curiosity about what restaurant you went to.
DeleteThe vintage style works beautifully with the flowers.
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DeleteOh that looks so pretty!
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DeleteYour card is lovely, Amy! It does have such a vintage look to it - the lace and the colors of the dried flowers compliment the look beautifully. I can only imagine the cards you could make with flowers dried from your own garden!
ReplyDeleteThanks Laura, I will have to try this again.
DeleteThat is beautiful!
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DeleteAbsolutely beautiful!!!!
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DeleteIt's beautiful! You certainly achieved the vintage look. I am glad you were able to save the flowers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, so am I.
DeleteWell done for cleaning out and organising your craft room! What a wonderful card, the flowers being so old gives it a real vintage look! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThanks. It took me all winter to clean out that room. It's amazing the stuff you can accumulate in 30 years!
DeleteI love how you created this card! I want to start using dry flowers in my art journaling.
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Thank you! Oh, that's a good idea!
DeleteOh, Amy, this is beautiful! I sometimes dry flowers from the garden and then don't use them. This is a clever idea.
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Thank you Amalia!
DeleteI love the idea of using dried flowers on a card. This one is beautiful Amy.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Nicole.
DeleteThat is lovely, Amy! Spraying them with fixative was a great idea. I collected a few delicate tiny indigo flowers from my garden. I am going to put them in my journal. I will spray them first.
ReplyDeletePressed flowers from your own garden would be simply amazing!!
-Soma
Thank you so much! Great idea to put them in your journal too.
DeleteThis turned out lovely! It is fun to find something you've set aside and then it inspires you to try something new. If you do land up using pressed flowers from your garden, I hope you share photos!
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Thank you Carrie, I will!
DeleteWith your beautiful year-round garden you could surely go into the business of selling dried flowers to crafters!! This card is so amazing. Love the colors, the paper choice, the lace. Beautiful. Not sure how you managed to keep the flowers in tact but you did a sensational job.
ReplyDeleteThanks Leslie. It was difficult to keep the flowers in tact, but the fixative worked wonders.
DeleteThese are lovely, Amy! A friend recently asked me if I'd like to join a card making group and I said yes. I'm bringing this idea with me! Enjoy your trip and I hope the weather isn't rainy after all!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! A card making group sounds like so much fun.
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