Sunday, February 26, 2012

Flower bottles

This card is for Play Date Café challenge 120, and for the Hangover Winterfest challenge on Two Peas to do challenges you didn't get a chance to do during Winterfest (I did the Lonely Hearts challenge, to use old stamps that you used to love and haven’t used in a while).

Here's the gorgeous inspiration panel:

And this is my card:

I loved the bottles with the flowers on the inspiration panel and try to make my own with modelling film, stamps and alcohol ink. I drew two bottles on modeling film, cut them out and coloured the one green and the other blue with alcohol ink. When they were dry I did the alcolhol ink kissing technique on them, using two different mirrored text stamps and Archival ink. Stamp and then carefully wipe off the ink, the ink takes of the alcohol ink underneath, very cool. It shows more on the blue than on the green bottle. If you haven’t tried modeling film, when you heat it up you can shape it and when it is cool again, it will keep that shape. If you are not happy with the result, just heat it up and reshape it. Fun stuff.

The flowers were die cut with a Cuttlebug die from a piece of watercoloured paper coloured with Distress Ink and water. I used twine for the stems. The background is a also a piece of watercolour paper coloured with Distress Ink (Stormy Sky, Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans) and water, and then stamped with an old favourite – a Swedish script letter stamp.
Three close ups:


You see the shape of the bottles better on this photo.


Here you can see the kissed text a bit better, it was hard to photograph.


Thank you for looking!

Supplies: Reprint Brev från Toscana stamp; Tim Holtz Stamper’s Anonymous Reflections CSM111; Hero Arts All Occasion Messages; Stamper’s Anonymous clear modeling film; Distress Ink: Wild Honey, Stormy Sky, Tumbled Glass and Faded Jeans; Memento Danube Blue; Alcohol ink: Juniper, Sailboat Blue, Stonewashed; Cuttlebug die and embossing folder; twine; Fiskars border punch; mini stapler.

13 comments:

  1. Really enjoyed this card! Lots and lots!

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  2. I'm mighty impressed with your handmade bottles! THe whole card is very unique, artistic and beautiful, too.

    Thanks for playing with us at The Play Date Cafe this week!

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  3. Very artsy! I have never heard of modeling film, so I'll need to look for it. Blessings!

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  4. Wow!! The bottles are amazing!! Such a beautiful and clever take on the challenge... I am truly awe struck. Thank you so much for joining us in the Cafe!

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  5. Wat 'n oulike idee, mooi stempels ook!

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  6. Yummy! This is so pretty! LOVE all your fantastic textures and vibrant colors! Beautiful take on our color story! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at The Play Date Cafe!

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  7. Wow, I have never seen modeling film before - looks like some fun stuff to play with! Just stunning card you made here. Thanks so much for the inspiration!!

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  8. Wow, what a great card! How cool that you used modeling film too! I just tried it after finding some at my local stamp store--it's great fun! Love that you made bottles out of it--now I need to get me some clear (mine is the white).

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  9. What a fun card! I love how you have the transparent look on the bottles, really cool! Thanks so much for joining in the fun with us over at The Play Date Cafe this week!

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  10. Gorgeous! Love the bottles and the suggestion for modeling film. Will have to give it a try! Beautiful work!

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  11. Another cool result with modelling film. Love those arty bottles. Great take on the photo.

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  12. LOVE these, Anna-Karin! YOu are so creative and talented!

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