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I had the day off today and I have been playing around with Penny Duncan's Rose file... and made a few of them. For first attempts, I think they turned out pretty well. Not sure what I'm going to use them for, I just wanted to try them.
I made my own Shimmer mists, and instead of spraying it on my paper, I painted it on. I think that uses a lot less of the mixture as it doesn't go "everywhere" and so it should last longer. I do think I need to add more of the Perfect Pearls or Pearl Ex to my mix, but I'm still playing around with the amounts.
I filled up a sheet with all the designs, and cut out as many as I could fit. I haven't painted them all or made them into flowers yet, but now I have them cut and ready to "make" when I have more time. I also want to see just how small I am able to make them... LOL I think I remember someone (Maxine or maybe Z) that made some that were no more than an inch across when complete. I am definitely going to have to try some of her other flowers, this was a lot of fun, and I don't know why I was so afraid of trying them... not nearly as hard as I thought it would be... but then that seems to be true for a lot of things...( I can remember being afraid to try vinyl and found it was a lot easier than I thought it would be).

I attached a close up of one of the roses... I love how this turned out.

Angel - I didn't have the watercolor paper, I've got to get some. These look great! You did a wonderful job on them.

Thank you Retta. Penny mentioned in another post that when she made the tutorial, she used the watercolor paper, but now she just uses the Georgia Pacific 110# card stock from Walmart, and they still turn out great... so no need to wait until you can get watercolor paper... just use a 110# cardstock.

I think next I'm going to try using some colored cardstock and see how they turn out, over coloring my own. OR better yet, taking a "texture" and print out my own paper, and see what I can come up with... that could prove interesting.

Lovely. I have made the spiral roses but I have not tried this one. Very pretty. I love roses.

actually - I did them with textured card stock. I did a floral card under masterpieces. It was fun. I would like to try the watercolor for the effect. Have fun, I sure did!

How very beautiful!

Such lovely roses! I love the way you painted on your homemade shimmer mix. That added a lovely touch. So pretty!!

Those look beautiful...now I gotta go try them!!

Those are lovely!

Those are just beautiful. love the shimmer too.

Those are beautiful! Another thing on my to do list!

beautiful I have tried over and over to make these mine never look good LOL or I am to pickey but they sure don't look as nice as yours or I would be keeping them!

They are so lovely. It must be so much more rewarding than buying one ready made.

Those are beautiful angel!!!!!!! GREAT job!!!!!!

I love those. I need to try them but am afraid I will not be able to do them justice but none-the-less must try them

kathybessey wrote:I love those. I need to try them but am afraid I will not be able to do them justice but none-the-less must try them

Kathy,
If I can do it, YOU can do it... it was a lot easier than I thought it would be... and I wasn't sure I would like the way mine turned out.... but then I figured not all roses are "perfect" so mine don't have to be either.

Oh those are gorgeous! Great job!

Beautiful

you did a wonderful job on the roses! I haven't tried them yet.

WOW!!!! Soooo breathtakingly beautiful! Sorry I missed your IM. I am sooo bad with Skype lately. I should just leave it signed in LOL.