Make your own flowers

There is a new challenge today at Incy Wincy, and the theme to play along with this week is "Make your own flowers".  We're sponsored by our very own Nikki of Limited Runs who has kindly supplied some digi images for the design team to showcase.

I made a little box base, put my row of pumpkins along each edge and the stary one as a tag, and set off to make my flowers.  They took me literally hours to make, but I do like the effect.

Each petal was cut out separately in the shape of an elongated pear; 12 large 'pears' and 18 small ones.  I then folded each petal in half lengthways, and then folded the sides backwards slightly to take the shape of petals.  I then cut out a snowflake in green as the base of the flower (the snowflake had 6 "sticky out bits" to glue the base petals to!)  I cupped the snowflake and taped it into a cup shape, and filled it with wet glue. I then started to layer my petals into the shape, 2 rows of large petals and 3 rows of smaller petals.  

And 3 hours later I had 4 huge handmade flowers !!!

Card Recipe:

• Image - Pile of Pumpkins and Stary Pumpkin by Limited Runs
• Colouring mediums - Promarkers, Copics

Please pop on over to the Incy Wincy challenge blog to see the other creations by the talented design team, and to enter our challenge.  I look forward to seeing your creations this week.

HINT : Pop back later today as I will be posting some candy!!!

I've been inspired by:

• Craft your days away - Make your own flowers
• Paper Pretties - Not a Card
• Sweet Stamping - Not a Birthday Card
• Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
• Delightful Challenges - Halloween
• Crafty Catz - Monochromatic
• Stamp Something - Digi
• Totally Papercraft - Not a card
• I Love Promarkers - Anything Goes
• Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes

Happy crafting.