In spite of this being a challenging and frustrating project, you knocked it out of the park!! It looks beautiful, not sure how you were even able to hold those flowers together, but they look good. The way you adjusted the colors of the photo turned out so good too. Your sil will love it!!!!!
Wow! You did an amazing job! I am glad you persisted, I personally think it is lovely! You did a wonderful job with the sepia and making it work with the nice photo. I wouldn’t change it. I think you rocked it! The border punch was a perfect touch, along with the stitching.
Bravo to you for hanging in there, the page is stunning! I love all things vintage and the beautiful patina of these dried roses really shines. I really like the depth you created with your inky background too it really elevates the roses. Please show this to your SIL, as she may feel very different about it than you do. But we weren't the ones trying to go get very delicate flowers to cooperate with us! lol
Well, in the end this might have been worth the effort; this page is jaw-dropping stunning!!!!! Love the vintage look, love the way you've blended the paper and flowers, love the edges of punched lace and doodling...
Sounds like this was quite the challenge. But your time, frustration and effort payed off in the end. You created a one of a kind piece for your SIL. Love the vintage look. Muting the photo a bit was the perfect way to showcase the pic with the aged flowers.
My SIL just recently asked me to scrap her wedding bouquet from Nov 6, 2004. Well being that these dried flowers are 18 years old this turned into one of the most challenging and frustrating projects I have ever done. The flowers were just so old, discolored, brittle and delicate they were just way too difficult to work with, I almost gave up because every idea I had failed and redone a few times. This isn't even the first original page I finished, I tore that one apart and started from scratch. Hairspray is supposed to work on dried flowers to help persevere them, but that didn't happen for these flowers because they were just too fragile from age, so the power behind each spray made them fall apart into pieces. I used glue spray once I placed them onto the page to try to help them stay together, but even that didn't work 100%. The petals are barely holding on to each other, so they probably won't stay glued to the page.
I edited the photo to more of a sepia, black/white color because the original was so bright and pastel, it just didn't match the discolored flowers at all. So that is the reason behind the brown/yellow color combo for this page...I just went with what the flowers were giving me because painting them to their original pastel colors weren't possible. I plan to make another page with the original photo as an "I am sorry this one turned out so yucky" page so there is at least something worth hanging up hahaha.
*Note: for all future dried up floral projects, do them before they are decades too old. LOL
Thank you Pat for the edge punch I used around this page.
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