say it with flowers

When i checked this months challenge on the Claritystamp challenge site the theme was "Say it with flowers" and it reminded me of this card that I made last year and never blogged for one reason or another.

My friend asked me to make her a card for her mother and the instructions were art deco and green. At first I really struggled and then I remembered this stencil. It was brand new as I had never used it before. 

I started by adding distress ink through stencil onto white card. I used shabby shutters and peeled paint for the leaves and tattered rose and victorian velvet for roses on a separate piece of card. Once I had dried it thoroughly. I replaced the clean stencil and covered it with transparent paste. I added microbeads to the leaves section as soon as I removed stencil. I left both pieces to dry thouroughly for several hours.

Meanwhile I turned my attention to the lady. She is my second favourite after the Sketchy lady. I love dressing her up by paper piecing. So I stamped her out in black archival onto card and several times onto patterned paper from my stash. I then cut them out and stuck them onto stamped image.

 I then made a base card big enough to fit the long stencil. I found a corner that I felt matched the design and embossed it in silver in all 4 corners.

On a spare piece of black card I stamped Mother and embossed it in silver along with 2 corners.

Once assembled it looked like the picture.

So that is my offering for this month. My friend loved it, how about you? Happy New Year, Theresa xx

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Claritystamp challenge blog - say it with flowers

Simon says stamp Monday challenge - something new (stencil)
Word art Wednesday - anything goes
Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge - something new (stencil)