Last month at my Stampin’ Up club meeting, one of the girls had purchased the Pretties set of flowers and she handed it to me. She said “Rebecca you can do something cool with these.” I was wondering why she spent $39.95 on something that she wasn’t sure about. The white flowers floated in and out of my brain over the next week or so until I ran across an interesting post on Scraplovers forums titled “8 ways to Alter Your Scrapbooking Flowers” posted by Lesley. Lesley is obviously very creative and went a little crazy creating some way cool altered flowers. Ok, so now altered flowers will not leave my brain! So instead of investing immediately in the Stamping Up Pretties, I headed to my LSS and bought the Heidi Swapp white flowers for $3. Below are the results. If you want to see the entire Scrapblog, click the pictures. I also posted some of the layouts and crafts I created with the finished flowers.

In the second photo, I started out by pressing the flowers onto ink pads to color them. Be sure to start with the lightest color first and leave some white to fill in with the darker colors. This gives the flowers a “tie-die” effect. I dried them with the embossing heat gun and used Stickles glitter glue to add sparkle. I really feel everything looks better with a little glitter! The peach colored flower looks perfect with the Outlaw paper from Stamping Up and I am working on the pages now. Hopefully I will post them this week.

In the third photo, the top left flowers were made using the marble technique and adding some glitter. The bottom flowers were first stamped with Versamark, then embossed with clear embossing powder, then inked on top. The embossed images pop out if you wipe off the excess ink. The teal colored flower was colored first and then embossed with gold embossing powder.

In the last photo, these flowers are my favorite! I think creating these brought out the biker chick in me, I don’t know. Anyway, these ROCKIN flowers were made by first inking the flowers with black ink and drying them. I then stamped hearts and star images with versamark on the dry flowers. Finally, I used gold and red pearl ex powders over the stamped images. These flowers caused me to go buy the new DCWV Rock Queen papers and chipboard pieces. I can’t wait to create some ROCK Queen cards with these flowers.

I hope you enjoyed these techniques and create some altered flowers of your own. Please send photos of your creations to Rebecca at Scraplog dot com. I am without a doubt getting the Stampin Up Pretties set now. My mind is racing just thinking about it!

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