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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Graphic Flowers


Howdy all!  It's a gorgeous day here with sunshine and a lovely breeze.  My arms are rather pink after sitting on the patio for lunch and then taking the hounds for a swim!  I spent some time in the Craft Cave as I wanted to get a card done for this week's ColourQ challenge. I love the bright colours and those super cute towels.  I played around with a few ideas involving polka dots but was finally drawn to the hexagons from Paper Smooches' Vogue Abode set.  Initially I was going to lay them out in a striped pattern but it wasn't quite working for me and I finally came up with these graphic looking flowers.  Kind of fun huh? Young Crafters Unite is currently running a flower challenge so I'm going to enter this over there as well.  


Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Hexagons from Vogue Abode) Paper Smooches, (Sentiment from Mixed Greetings) Woodware Craft Collection
Inks: (VersaFine Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko

Gems:  (Ladybug, Limeade & Pool Party collections) Doodlebug

25 comments:

  1. Oooh! This is my favourite kind of card - lots of white space and make something (flower) from something else (hex background) - clever! And I love that sentiment - have to hunt down that set!

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  2. Great idea to make those hexagon flowers. Love the bling, too.

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  3. Jen your design is amazing, I love love those hexagon flowers.

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  4. Definitely fun! The Island Indigo makes for a very cool flower colour, as well. Nice!

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  5. TOTALLY fun, Jen! Totally pinned!

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  6. Now this is clever! Love the idea of the flowers, and they really pop even more with the different colour centres - awesome :) I'm hoping to match you for pinkness if we end up getting some sun tomorrow! (Well, not really hoping to get a sunburn, just hoping that it might be possible, if you know what I mean...lol!)

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  7. really cute flowers!! Thanks so much for joining us at the ColourQ this week!

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  8. Your card is fantastic - I love your design, hugs x x

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  9. You are so clever! Brilliant card!

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  10. I love those gorgeous blooms! So fun with the hexagons Jen!

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  11. What a happy card, Jen, love your hexagon flowers! So happy to have you join in the fun this week at the ColourQ.

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  12. Your cards are all so stylish and fun! This is such a perfect take on those two challenges! Love it! Hugs, Karin

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  13. Love the flowers and how you carried the details through to the gems as well! They all match and follow the same order - so cool!

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  14. Oh so fun....I love your flowers! The bling is a fun extra touch, too! Thanks for playing with the CQC colors this week!

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  15. love the flowers, love how you have the centres lifted up, they looks so cool :)

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  16. Such a cool take on the hexagon trend and the colors! So glad you played with us this week, Jen! :)

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  17. What a cute card! I love the flowers made out of hexagons! So clever! Thanks for playing along with us at Young Crafters Unite!

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  18. I'm seeing hexagons everywhere... and I'm loving it! This is CAS fabulousness Jen!

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  19. Such a great idea to make stylised flowers with your hexagons Jen! Vicky x

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  20. super FUN...love the hexagons!

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  21. Love the hexagon flowers on this =) Thanks for joining our YCU challenge!

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  22. love the graphic hexagon flowers. Thanks for joining YCU.

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  23. oh my, what a brilliant idea. the hexagons make for some lovely flowers.

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  24. These are awesome Jen, love how you used the hexagon patterns to make the flowers :0)
    Jenny x

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