AECP Level 3 - Elements of Floral Composition

Hi, friends!  Welcome back to Paper Play.

It’s been really hot and humid in New England this past week, so it was the perfect time to stay indoors in the air conditioning and get crafty!  I took the opportunity to finish my 4th AECP Level 3 class, Elements of Floral Composition.  Jaycee Gaspar taught this very informative course on all of the elements of composition, including: color, value, line, shape, form, texture and space.  Jaycee did an amazing job with breaking it all down and showing exmples of taking each component into your design.

I chose to focus on color, value, line, and space with the project that I created.

Time to Celebrate

I really enjoy ink blending florals and knew that I wanted my main project to incorporate it.  I also knew that I wanted to have lots of depth to play around with space and would use die cut florals to achieve it.  I decided to go with the Altenew Flowering Dogwood Layering Die Set because it checked the boxes and is my favorite layering die set.  I adhered to the 60/30/10 color ratio focusing on pink, white, and green.  As you can see, there are light hues with the pinks, and darker hues with the greens (value).  I used darker shades to emphasize the natural lines of the flowers and leaves, and also added a light white line next to the embossed lines to help give the, direction.  Lastly, I used several flowers and layered them across a wide swath of card to to best utilize space and not have a ton of white space.

Here’s what I used to make it:

• Altenew Caft-a-Flower Flowering Dogwood Layering Die Set
  
• Altenew Lovely Camellias Outline Stamp Set (sentiment)
• Altenew Fresh Dye Inks: Blush and Rouge
• Altenew Crisp Dye Inks: Green Fileds and Hunter Green
• Altenew Artist Markers: Pink Cloud, Swamp Green, Evergreen
• Altenew Jet Black Ink Spray
• Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen
• Taylored Expressions Bits & Pieces Black Rhinestones
• A2 white card base

Here’s how I made it:

• Used a black ink pad to outline the card base
• Die cut all leaves and florals using white card stock
• Blended the florals with Blush ink first and then Rouge

• Used the Pink Cloud marker to add depth to the embossed lines on the petals

• Added light white lines along the embossed lines to give direction

• Colored the leaves with Green Fields and then Hunter Green inks; used the Swamp Green marker to deepen the embossed lines of the leaves

• Colored floral centers with Swamp Green marker and then added center dots with the Evergreen marker
• Assembled the flowers; used the white gel pen to add some shading in the flower centers

• Before glueing down to card, arranged leaves and flowers to decide where to stamp sentiment; stamped sentiment, masked it, and add splashes of black ink to card base
• Once black splashes were dry, adhered leaves down with craft glue; adhered flowers with double sided foam tape to create further dimension

• Glued down three black rhinestones

Here’s a closeup of a flower to show how the light white lines help to further define with the direction of the petals:

This was a really fun card to make and I believe that it provides a great example of what I learned in this class.  I feel more confident with my florals since I know understand more of the theory behind composition and arranging.  Thanks, Jaycee, for another amazing course with Altenew!

Thar wraps up this post.  Thanks for spending some time with me today on Paper Play.  Until next time . . . be well!