Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Put your own flourish on things...

goth-floursh2 This week's Gothic Arch challenge is Flourishes so in the process of making my challenge this week I got to thinking how the altered artist in me can't help but come out. I tend to look for things that are versatile where I can put my own flourish on things so to speak or alter it if you will to what I need at the time.

Recently I was gifted by my buddy Kris with some fun spryflrspaper flowers. Of course I couldn't just leave them as is so I misted them using my Color Mists using Copper Kettle , Monterey Bay and 22 karat gold . I then dried them with my heat gun and watched them puff back up which was very cool!

flowrsHere they are all dried .....if you click on the picture you might be able to see their shimmer.

Check out the paper beneath the flowers I sprayed paper them on, I thought it turned out very cool looking it will go in my stash to use later.

flowrs2 Next I decided to ink the edges with chalk inks (love chalk inks because they dry so quickly, I think they're would probably be one of those supplies for me that I wouldn't want to be without them, I use them that much!). I then added some rub-on flowers to the centers of the paper flowers. Along with the flowers I altered I also altered the chipboard letter "B" by adding inks and rub-ons and also the bird, it was originally light aqua and I used brown chalk inks on it to change it's color. So the moral of this long winded post is don't be afraid to add your own touch to embellishments.

Happy Altering!

13 comments:

  1. Beautiful arch! I love how you sprayed and inked all the floral embellishments.

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  2. Wow this is really unique.
    Unbelievable arch. Love this.

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  3. Your arch is beautifully flourished. And I love how you embellished the embellishments; you really added depth and beauty to the flowers (I could spray my flowers with color mists one handedn :D and have them ready to use when I'm two handed).

    Joanne

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  4. This is really stunning, love the colours

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  5. Beautiful!!! Love those colours.

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  6. Aileen this is a super idea for these flowers ... think I will add just one more touch and stamp some words or images with StazOn also ...... Linda F

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  7. Oh wow --- this flourishes with beauty ... I love it, Aileen!

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  8. I LOVE the sprays on the flowers.... beautiful!!!
    And the whole piece is so lovely!!!
    hugs,
    Cat

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  9. This is beautiful, Aileen and love what you did with the flowers. I agree, the paper underneath looks fab too.

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  10. Very Lovely arch! Thank you for the how to as well. The backspray paper from coloring your flowers is SO great as well :) All of your artwork has so much texture and color, I really enjoy it very much!

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  11. What a cool project. You've really done a wonderful job!

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