Acrylic flower tray...

14 Aug 2014




As you probably know, I do love using flowers and other natural finds to make pictures. I love arranging them into neat patterns or pretty designs before photographing them. I'd had an idea of making a tray decorated with a floral design for a while now. I'd thought about the possibility of using resin to create a protective layer over pressed flowers, but when I saw these acrylic trays from Tiny Prints I knew it would work perfectly for what I had in mind.      

Using a photograph printed on to the tray in this way, meant I was able to create a design with a little more depth and was able to mess about with the layout and editing of the picture until I was happy with the end result!





I'm loving hydrangea flowers lately and their variations of colour, so I used mostly those and a few other bits picked from the garden too!

I cut a piece of black card twice the size of the finished tray to use as my base. I then started chopping and arranging the flowers to make a fairly busy design, but with plenty of white space also. I placed the cornflowers and a couple of other flowers upside down so I could get them to sit straight.




This was the finished photograph once I'd faffed around with the positioning of the flowers.





And this is the final tray! I love how it turned out and how vivid all the colours are against the black. I think it would make a great place to keep jewellery and trinkets or for make-up!

7 comments :

  1. Beautiful! The colours of the flowers against the black work so well x

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  2. Gorgeous Caroline. The black and flowers are great together! X

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  3. Beautiful, the colours are so striking, what a clever idea. CJ xx

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  4. I LOVE this idea caroline, it's beautiful :) honestly you are so clever as the photo has such lovely colours and looks great with the tray. You should put some in your shop as I'd be tempted! It's perfect for storing makeup and it can be kept clean and the colours are wonderful. Honestly, I just love it :) safxxx

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  5. That's so pretty! I love the way the colors look against the black.

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  6. beautiful! it looks especially striking with that black background.

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  7. That is stunning and you are very good at this sort of thing! Another project which is a great way to show off your excellent eye for composition. x

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