Home made flowers and hand dyed ribbon third installment

Hello everyone and thanks for dropping in. Today I want to share a third and last little project I made for the challenge I am hosting over at Our Creative Corner. You can see my main project HERE.
 I thought I would show a different way of making flowers, just by using stamps, you can use pretty much any kind of flower stamp you may have in your collection.

I cut a tag from Watercolour paper using one of my Sizzix dies, just to have a bit of texture for my background. I coloured it with Old Paper, Pumice Stone, Faded Jeans and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks and did a bit of stamping around the edges. Then for some contrast I added the fancy frame from Spellbinders.
Now to the actual flower, - I used a Stamping Up stamp, but a very similar effect can be achieved with other flower stamps of course.

I stamped it first in Jet Black Archival ink on smooth stamping card. Next I stamped it twice more in Plum Archival. I fussy cut the flower stamped in black and coloured the leaves with Distress Markers, Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint. Next I cut out just the flower part of the two images stamped in Plum and shaped them with a ball tool on a flower shaping mat. If you don't have one of those the back of a paintbrush and mouse mat will do just as well. I did the same with the rose buds and then layered it all up and glued it carefully on to the frame. I just put a little dollop of Diamond Stickles in the centre.

I stamped the sentiment, that comes with the same Stamping Up set on a label and finished it all of with some ribbon dyed in matching colours and a little stamped butterfly (Artemio).

That's it, thank you for visiting and I thought I would just let you know that it is going to be very quiet here during the month of July as I am off to Australia to visit my grand children. There are a couple of scheduled design team posts but that is it. I hope to be able to come and visit all of your beautiful blogs though and meanwhile thank you so much for all your support and I will be back in August.