Making Art! Challenge #8

Mornin', Afternoon, or Evenin', depending on where you are and what time it is when you read this....lol...

First of all, I wanted to thank everyone that commented on "private eye girl", that was featured on Wendy's blog this past Wednesday! I was overwhelmed by the positive response, as I know some of my work can be a little "quirky". lol. But, hey, if you know me by now, that's just the way I roll...and expect to see more of it in the future. I was over the top thrilled when Wendy emailed me asking if I would mind if she featured me on her blog, I'm like....heck yes!  Thank you Wendy! And also as a result, I see I gained some more followers, which I appreciate very much! Alrighty, that's about as much gushing as you'll see from me in one post, so....

The theme over at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo! Group this week...
a LOT of flowers (more than three) and a Perfectly Pearled grungepaper object. (Is that vague enough for you?)

Well, you know how I love my Wendy flowers, so this challenge wasn't too terribly difficult for me....

Thought I would try something a little different for the background, and cut up some corrugated cardboard, and slapped on several colors of paint and some Viva Inka Gold. Then adhered some Graphic 45 paper to chipboard, ran thru the Ornamental die, and there's my next background. That vine/flourish is a Sizzix die, cut from grungeboard, inked with Peeled Paint and Pine Needles, overstamped with a Wendy background in Olive Archival.
Although you can't see the Perfect Pearls, my "perfectly pearled grungepaper objects", are the butterflies. I sprayed them quite heavily with Sunflower PP/water mix. Very sparkly in real life, I'm just a poor photographer...
The flowers are all grungepaper, inked with distress STAINS and inks. Those stains sure do save a lot of time....love them!  I'm hoping that the rest of the color family will be released this year, surely that's in the works, isn't it?????
Oh, and some Maya Road trinket jewel flowers, and miscellaneous bling for the flower centers...
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Thanks for stopping by today...Go Be Creative!