Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Flourishes Sneak Peek - Old Tea Rose

Here's a fun little secret I've been sitting on for a few months - dkdesigns has expanded again! Flourishes has a new illustrator, Sam Pickard, and I'll be designing the sentiments to go with her beautiful artwork each month! To celebrate, I'm joining along with the Flourishes designers for Day 2 of Flourishes Sneak Peeks for May!   Here is a peek at the brand new set:
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It's a gorgeous new set that celebrates the majestic rose.  Artistically drawn by our new artist Sam Pickard, this old tea rose just begs to be colored with style. This elegant floral features three accent images, including a stately looking butterfly and five beautifully scripted sentiments - all on a 4 by 6" set. This set will also have a Silhouette Cut file available as well for wonderful creative options!  You can find out more about our new Illustrator Sam Pickard HERE.

Sam's artwork is fresh, modern, and absolutely fascinating. The sketches and color studies that she shares on her blog are really inspiring as well. She's already well known for her fabric and wallpaper designs, and I'm thrilled that we have the opportunity to work with her designs in our papercrafting projects, too!


I wanted to create something 'different' with the set, and had a frame concept in mind to highlight this larger sentiment. Someone will surely scold me for not taking pictures along the way as this came together... let me just say there were more than a few times that I almost threw it in the trash, so I'm content to save the lessons I learned for a tutorial next time.


I started with a chipboard frame that I cut from a cereal box, and a piece of watercolor paper the same size. I diecut the square opening with those 2 pieces adhered together. I stamped the rose image, and a few scattered leaves and buds, around the frame, and watercolored the panel using Distress reinkers and a Derwent Graphitint pencil (water-soluble graphite pencils in dark earthy tones).


When the panel was dry, I took a piece of white tissue paper and crumpled it into a ball, then smoothed it out slightly. I used watered-down PVA glue on the frame and on top of the tissue paper to adhere to the frame, and wrapped the excess to the back.


I dried the glue with my heat gun, and then distressed the front of my frame with just tiny bits of white acrylic paint, rubbed with my finger over the wrinkles in the tissue paper. I love the antiqued look this gives, and also the depth that it adds to the project. I inked up one of the text stamps from the set, and just stamped small areas of the stamp to add some texture.


The butterflies are from Pink Paislee - I actually rubbed a little white paint on them too so they faded in a little better. The final step was adhering the random pearls, and layering the mat and sentiment! The sentiment is stamped on a piece of DP from Memory Box that had a distressed look to it.


When it comes to the Old Tea Rose set, you'll want to see all beautiful inspiration that the Design Team has for you with this set, and you'll want to be sure to comment because...
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One Design Team Member is the Mystery Blogger of the day!  That means commenting on her blog puts you in the running to win you today's Old Tea Rose Stamp Set!   You'll have to comment to find out who it is!

Want to see all the beautiful things you can create with this gorgeous flower? We love it so much we've invited some extra friends to the party.  Head on over and see…..

Do you want to win Flourishes' May Release? 

If you want a chance to win all four of Flourishes' soon-to-be released May sets, you can always play in the Colorful Creations Challenge – there will be multiple winners there! OR, play along with the gals for this week’s Timeless Tuesday Challenge! Check out the links for the official rules! Also, if you like what you see on our designers’ blogs today, you can pre-order this set (along with the other three sets as well). You can also take advantage our New Release Bundle and get 10% off when you purchase all four together in a bundle. All sets will be live first thing Friday morning along with the coordinating cut files for this release. So, be sure to stick with Flourishes this week as they unveil a whole new host of paper-crafting fun! 
Thanks for stopping by!

33 comments:

  1. Truly looks like a picture frame, soft, cushioned in handmade paper, then distressed and stamped. I wish you did have a tutorial for it is graceful and lovely. Thank you ♥

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  2. Dina, this is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing how you created it...just gorgeous!

    Take care and STAY POSITIVE!

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  3. Congratulations, Dina! Flourishes is one of my favorite companies with such quality in their artwork and depth in their sentiments. I look forward to what the DT presents in their awesome creativity making use of these new sets. Love this beautiful frame you created for this fabulous quote from one of my favorite authors.

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  4. Beautiful....am going to have to give this technique a try...love all the different looking textures...sure glad you didn't throw it away and stuck with it, as it turned out gorgeous!!

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  5. Beautiful...truly a work of art and so creative! Lovely use of this stamp set!

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  6. Wow, love the texture and dimension on this one! Those butterflies look real! It's just gorgeous...nicely done!

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  7. Fantastic - love the subtle flowers on the frame - looks like a LOT of work though! :) TFS!

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  8. WOW - this is a work of art! I will be trying this tissue paper technique for sure! Love it!

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  9. Lovely ideas - can't wait to try a few of them myself!

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  10. I love the direction you went with this Dina... so beautifully done and so unique. Such soft elegance!

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  11. Winner! Winner!! Winner!!! It's beautifully done and so rich with depth and texture. Oh so pretty!

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  12. Oh Dina! I am always in awe of your stunning creations and this one just speaks volumes! I love the layered stamped papers and the tissue! So beautiful!!!

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  13. Very pretty framed work Dina. The pearls all strung about and a wonderful touch.

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  14. Wow, your creative, mixed media BG is simply amazing! Love your sentiment - big congrats on pairing up with Sam. Can't wait to see what's up your sleeve in the future! (bsides your armpit - lol) :-)

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  15. How beautiful! Congrats on your new gig!!

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  16. Congradulations and I love the frame you did!!!
    I got to hear Dr. Buscaglia lecture once a long time ago and love his books - very 'feel good ' reading :)

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  17. WOW DINA!!!!!!!! This looks like FABRIC!!!!!!!!!! :) JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) WHAT A SUPER PROJECT!!!!!!!!! :) (You STILL get an A+ by me, even with out the tutorial!) :)

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  18. How fun and truly different love it

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  19. Your frame is absolutely gorgeous Dina! I love the distressing and vintage feel of the whole project! Beautiful!

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  20. This turned out beautifully!

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  21. Love the vintage feel of your card. Just stunning!

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  22. Wow Dina, this frame is exquisite!!! Has such a beautiful vintage feel to it, just stunning..... Your hard work really paid off, it is a work of art!!

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  23. Oh my goodness... When I saw your card it really did take my breathe away! Your card is so exquisite,gorgeous and beautiful! That is just merely touching the surface of how your card truly is!!

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  24. Francie in Montreal5/09/2013 10:14 AM

    First, congratulations on your new assignment. Well done and well deserved. The frame is stunningly beautiful. The sentiment touching. You've outdone yourself.

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  25. Let me count the ways to tell you how much I love this - absolutely delicious art work and Yes I do consider this art!!
    Sandy

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  26. Love the card. Thanks for sharing.

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  27. What a beautiful work of art! Your frame is gorgeous! TFS God bless!!

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  28. Very pretty! Love the texture and I'm so glad you didn't end up throwing it in the trash!

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  29. WOW1This is AWESOME!!!Thank you for sharing!!!

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  30. wow, this is beautiful!

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  31. Love the heirloom look to this project!!

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