Denim Smile....

What a strange post title! Well no, not really......what with me being a literal sort of person, I'm just pointing out the obvious...a smile made from denim!!!

I'm playing along with the CR84FN colour challenge, the current request is that we use Denim, Tan and Brown in our creations! I kind of went a bit literal with that too...and used actual denim not just the colour!
The base is a 20 by 20 cm piece of kraft card, sprayed and splatted to give a bit of texture. i added some corrugated and embossed card too...

I made the large flower by glueing a piece of denim fabric to some Clearly For Art modelling film. Once dry, I die cut some flowers from it. Once heated, the warm plastic can be shaped. I gently rolled and bent the petals ( be careful, the plastic gets hot!), and held them in position until the plastic had cooled. At this point the cold plastic will hold the shape! If you hate it, simply reheat and have another go.....

I also glued some denim to chipboard, and die cut some letters to form the word 'smile'....

The final touches were some rolled roses and fringed flowers, both with added denim ink and frayed jeans distress stickles!

A pearly embellishment got the stickles treatment too.....
Really enjoyed making this, lots of different textures to play with, and messy too! My kind of project!
Love Trish xxxx