January 15, 2013

Flower Power

This week's Life Book 2013 lesson is led by Christy Tomlinson.  Christy's theme is "New and Starting Again."  She used the example of a flower reseeding itself.

Using some of Christy's mixed media techniques, we were to create flowers out of coffee filters and aluminum foil.  This is a new one for me!  I'm not sure I will ever use this technique again, but then again, maybe I will.  I didn't have all of the supplies Christy uses, so I made do with what I had on hand.  My flowers look a bit like a botanical print.  I especially like the shadows created by the 3-D flower petals.  I'm fairly certain this page will get totally crushed in my journal...sigh...
Creating background; adhering dyed coffee filters to aluminum foil

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14 comments:

Mary Gene Atwood said...

Very pretty! You are so creative.

Karen @ Beatrice Euphemie said...

Your flowers came out very nice! Looks like your technique worked just fine! I like the button centers, too. xx

Sarah Huizenga said...

My daughter has made snowflakes out of coffee filters, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see them being used for flowers. Very nice. Visiting from Lissa's Walk and Click.

Stephanie said...

What an interesting technique. It's a "snow day" today and I have coffee filters and foil. Hmmmmmm....sounds like a plan .

Lissa Forbes said...

This is a beautiful little piece of art, Pat! Thanks for joining Walk and Click Wednesdays!

Fran said...

Really nice. I especially like your background with the writing aound the edges. You have nice handwriting

carol l mckenna said...

Very creative work ~ love it!


(A Creative Harbor) ^_^

Pieni Lintu said...

looks great :)

Katherines Corner said...

lovely and so creative. Thank you for sharing at the hop xo

~Lavender Dreamer~ said...

What a beautiful work of art! I love it!

Lmkazmierczak said...

Visiting from Cool Clicks....very well done, love the recycled project♫♪ Here's my effort: http://lore-eleven.blogspot.com/2013/01/frosty-etchings.html

betty-NZ said...

Well, it certainly turned out beautiful!

Anonymous said...

Cool mixed media!

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tinajo said...

Looks so pretty!