Saturday, March 17, 2012

Orange & Yellow Fleurs

I was in the grocery last night (I KNOW!) and at my store you walk right into the floral department. Smells divine, and it's sooo pretty! Yesterday they had a large display with a sign: All Tulips $5. Then I spotted this in the same display:

Yeah, it's a really poor photo - I took it with my phone in the mood lighting my store has, but the orange and yellows were so vibrant and BRIGHT (unlike in this photo), that I immediately knew I needed to make a card based on it. I had a vision of a yellow background with rolled orange flowers. Oh, yeah.

You'll notice, by the way, those are not tulips, and they were not $5.  I did not take them home with me, though I have been known to buy myself flowers on occasion. I wasn't feeling that generous last night.

So this evening I finally got to try it. I printed out one of Mel's digi papers, and then I decided I was not going to roll no stinkin' flowers! First of all, I have no orange felt, and second, I have a whole cache of paper roses in shades of yellow and orange, so HELLO!  I made this:


I may have gotten a bit carried away with the roses. I die-cut the MFT doily, then added each flower (by Recollections ... moment of silence...), one at a time, by poking a hole into the doily with my paper piercer, sticking in the wire that's on the back of the rose, then bending it back to hold it in place.  When I finally declared it ENOUGH, I realized there was a bit of open space at the bottom of the doily, so being ever open to embellishment opportunities, I tied some SAB ribbons through two holes in the doily and tied a bow.

You can also see that I am not used to these very bright colors, since I seem to grab the same still-out Paper Smooches sentiment to use each time.

Here's a close-up of the roses:


The package says Mulberry Paper Roses. They are quite delicate, and so pretty. I think I got them at Mike's a few years ago. Oh, and this card weighs about 5 pounds, just in case you were wondering.

So if you ever feel mojo-less, just get out into your world, man. There's inspiration everywhere!

Thanks for stopping by!

6 comments:

  1. HOLY CRAP!!!! This is GORJUS!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ **thud** Loooove this color combo and all the pretty little roses with Mel's chevron paper. To. Die. For!!

    **BRAVO**

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  2. This is gorgeous. You did not go overboard on the flowers at all - they are perfect. Made me grin so you got a pin.

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  3. Flat out beautiful. Perfect.

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  4. GASP! (seriously that's what I did when I saw this) Ou la la la la LA! You are amazing. This is perfect. Those roses all in a bouquet viewed from the top like that. Genius!

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  5. OMG!!! OMG!!! best card ♥EVER♥!!!!! and definitely NOT too much... tho of course... it's *ME* saying that... which might mean it IS, b/c let's face it: WOULD I KNOW??!?!?! but in any case i LOVE this, wanna CASE it, and think you've done brilliantly... in every sense of that word!!! ♥♥♥♥♥

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