June Elemental Inspiration

This is my card for June's Elemental Inspiration challenge over at The Daring Cardmakers.  The idea is that you choose at least 3 "elements" from the given picture and then use them in your own way to make a card. 
This month, it's Leo's turn to select the picture to inspire us, and she found this stunning image, with so many elements to choose from, it was actually hard to decide which to take away

There's the colour combo, the layout, the main image, the background, and then all the little details; drawing, lanterns, fish, paint spatters, numbers etc

I loved the bright "pops" of pink, turquoise and yellow with the cream and striking black, so decided that would be one of my elements.
Then there are flowers - so that goes without saying (haha), I love the "shape" of the hair and thought I could incorporate that into my card.  I also used the basic layout, some ink spatters, and one of the circles - couldn't quite work out how to use three, but figured some of the jewels or enamel dots might do.

Materials and Tools

Smooth Cream card blank plus extra for embossed panel

Bazzill card: Black, Pink, Yellow, Turquoise

2x star flowers, Wired crystal flowers, a few extra wired "bits"

Pearls, Dewdrops, Gems, Enamel dots

Cosmic Shimmer ink sprays used to create spatters

Ribbon, RicRac, Washi Tape
Distressed Stripes embossing folder (Cuttlebug)

Dies: 

Circle Doily (Crafters Companion)

Curly Swirlies (Taylored Expression)

Tea Rose - medium (Cheery Lynn)

Nesties Circles (Spellbinders)

I really wanted to give my new  Cheery Lynn Tea Rose die a trial run, so that's why I chose to make roses for the three main flowers. The joy of this die is that on the single plate you get a leaf part (not used here) and the flower 5 times - so you only need to run it through your cutting machine once to get all the petals you need to make a rose.
I used Bazzill card, and worked the shapes with my ball tools, a bamboo skewer, and a foam mat.
Two of the flower shapes were used to create the bud then another two for the lower, open petals, then  I made the remaining shape into a "transitional" shape to use between them.  I  was really pleased with how they turned out and I love the size, which makes a finished rose of around 2.5 -3cms depending how "open" you make it.

Sorry this turned out a bit of an epic - well done on making it to the end ;)
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