The Crushed Flower Tutorial got many comments.
One lady wrote to say that it took her a long time to realise that I was actually using real flowers and leaves.
You will need a die cutting machine to roll the flowers through, and pick your flowers when they are just going off.
The flowers for both of these cards are from a beautiful pink Hydrangea that is in my garden and the leaves from my Virginia Creeper.
But the result at the other end is nothing like the original flowers that I used.
I have Watercoloured the flowers with a Big 'N Juicy ink pad.
These inks have several different colours in the one pad and I have used a different area of the pad each time to create the shading and defintion to each flower.
I have sprinkled Glamour Dust on the petals and added small pearls to the flowers centres.
The photos don't really show you just how pretty this effect is but you will be very surprised with what you get if you give it a try.
Don't be surprised though when a pink flower produces a completely different colour at the other end ...it's all part of the fun.
Hugs xx