Stuck?!Sketches! June 1 DT share

Even though it's winter, I am going to ignore that fact, and brighten the month with some beautiful flowers for this challenge for Stuck?! Sketches! June 1 sketch:

This was a nice sketch to play with, and these roses really do brighten an otherwise gloomy day. The photos were taken at the Victoria State Rose Garden at Werribee Mansion, here in Melbourne. A huge display of roses, many I have never seen before. 

So I coloured the background with some gelato, and then kept pretty much to the sketch, embellishing with paper flowers, and die cuts. 

I hope you join us for the challenge. 

Bloom

Show Us Your Stuff June DT share

Welcome to winter, and welcome to the June challenge at Show Us Your Stuff. This month is quite different to anything I have done with this challenge group before, here is the challenge:

Now this one really gets you thinking, it looks relatively easy, but when you sit to do it, it is actually quite challenging. I decided to used orange and yellow as the colours side by side for my layout. You can see why, with the photo that I selected to scrap - tuberous begonias - they are quite stunning flowers. 

So I created a background using my gelli plate. a stencil and texture paste and some stamping. I added some flowers and some chipboard coloured in the chosen colours. I added a Charms Creations hessian heavenly heart to finish of the layout. 

I really hope we see you join in on the challenge, and do something out of your comfort zone.

Begonias