FlowerSoft ATC

Today in the mail I received and envelope from Susan, with the Black Widow ATC she promised.

She also sent a nice selection of papers and ephemera. Among the papers were two rolling marble backgrounds that I had heard her describe the process, but this was the first time I had seen the result. She also sent some tiny terra cotta vases, among other things.

The vases triggered a memory of something that had been troubling me this week - the last kit that I got from Valerie, the garden kit. I had not done anything with the garden kit, mostly because there was only one thing in the kit I really really wanted, and even so, I didn't know what to do with it: Flower Soft. Flower Soft is a kind of fuzzy glitter that is intended to give a soft, dimensional effect to your cards, and I had received cards with Flower Soft, but since I don't often stamp flowers, I had never used it. As soon as I saw the vases, I knew what I had to do.



I didn't have any floral wire, so I grabbed some blue coated wire and colored it with a green Bic Mark-it. I then dipped the end in tacky glue and sprinkled on the Flower Soft. While my flowers were drying, I went to work on the background. The rolling marble backgrounds were very dark, not quite what I wanted for flowers, so I softened them a bit with a coat of gesso. I cut leaves and a base from green scraps (easy to find on my Clip It Up), added a couple of faux postage stamps from the garden kit, and I am really very happy with the results. I wonder if Susan would like this ATC?