Watercolored roses for special days

Sorry I’ve been a little absent recently.  Life is good and full.

Today I’m sharing some scrapbook love!

This layout is a celebration of our 20th wedding anniversary.  It was a special day for us and it was made even more special when my dear husband came home with 2 dozen roses! This coming from a man who rarely buys flowers.  He’s just too practical to buy something that is only going to last a couple days.  I guess I need to teach him how to make paper roses and then they will last forever.

So in honor of those beautiful roses and our special day I created this a layout using the GCD Studios Splendor Line. It’s so romantic and lovely.

Here is a close up.

To create the rose, I started by die cutting flower parts.  I’m sure there are lots of shapes that would work.  Generally, rose patterns you find use a heart shaped edge.  These are the parts I chose to work with.

You’ll notice that I cut one of the heart shapes off the left flower.  That allowed me to close it in tightly to form the center of the rose.

Then I began water coloring.  I used water soluble oil pastels, but any water color media would work.  I like to use the oil pastel crayons because you can wet the crayon and drag it along the edge of what you want to color.  Like this.

Then I blend the edges with a damp brush.  Sometimes, I create a little puddle of paint on my plastic craft matte and add a little more color.

After I finish painting the edges, I carefully rolled the edges round a thin tool.  I use a handle of a distressing tool, but a small paint brush edge would work too.

You want to take a little care here because the paper is rather delicate because it’s wet.

I continue to shape it until it’s dry.  I also found that I needed to add a little glue to the inside edges of the middle to make them stay closed the way I wanted.

Here’s another look at the final rose I created with the Splendor patterned paper.  I like the depth the pattered paper added.

For the 20 in the title, I cut a similar color paper from the collection and painted the edges.  When the edges began to curl, I exaggerated that curl and let them dry to that shape.  I love the dimension that created.

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