Finally we come to the last letter of our alphabet challenge which I started with some crafting friends on a private forum. We started in April 2019 (so much has happened in the world since then!) with 'E' and fittingly our final letter is:
F for Flower
The colour options were fuchsia, firebrick and forest green all of which I have managed to use for once.
The flowers are all cut from various Tim Holtz Wildflowers and Wildflower Stems sets which I coloured with Twinkling H2Os and water-based markers. My flower arranging skills are non-existent so I struggled with putting the die cuts into some sort of bunch. When I had something I was happy with I secured it with sticky notes, flipped it over and applied glue to all the areas I could. I then placed it on the background, carefully peeled the sticky notes off and added glue where needed. I know Jennifer McGuire uses something called Press n' Seal which I think her husband invented but I used what I had to hand.
The background is a Jennifer McGuire technique using white pigment ink as a resist with a floral Hero Arts background stamp. The technique works best with darker colours so shows up better on Peacock Feathers and Mowed Lawn DIs rather than the Mustard Seed I've used at the bottom. The text reads 'Flowers are the earth providing a new perspective' and is from an unbranded set with a beautiful tulip corner stamp that you can see here .
So that's the end of that challenge - not sure what we will do next but watch this space...
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