Summer of Colour - Week 3

Now we are into week 3 and have these fabulous colours to play with ...

I searched and searched on Google for inspiration and then found these paintings .... sorry but I didn't keep the name of the artist.  

Then life took over and the whole Summer of Colour was missed!  But I didn't forget ..... I kept the colours and the inspiration and when I had time started back in there .... Think it was about Week 5 ......

I managed to get enough pages from my magazine to make up the flowers.  I cut all the petals freehand, I wish that I had photographed the pages first .... the lavender flower is taken from an advert for the Follies and has a stunning costumed lady.... I punched some tiny flowers in matching colours for the centre and then had to REALLY search the magazine for the sentiment!!  But I found it?!  

So how did I actually make the card?  

I spread Gesso over the card and left it to dry, then tapped a couple of matching inkpads sparingly over the card.  Once this was dry  I added the flowers and then spritzed the whole area with gold.  Adding the centres to the flowers and the sentiment in the top lefthand corner completed the card.