Roses are red

With the extensive period of cold, rainy days, I naturally don't have any temptations about spending time outside. As much as try to I tell myself the cliche "There's no bad weather" thing, it just doesn't seem to work, and while my pedometer reminds me of my non-existent activity, being inside is just so much more comfortable. Oh well...
Anyway, the non-existent activity isn't quite true as I was dusting off my shelves the other day, and upon doing so, I found a wooden bracelet I made a while ago. I have cut out several napkin motives during different times of boredom, in order to have them ready for my decoupage projects. And one day, when I felt particularly inspired by blooming roses, I took the pre-cut rose pattern to create a simple floral bracelet. 

After sanding the wooden base, I covered it in several layers of white acrylic paint on the outside, while I decided to paint the inner circle red to match it with the roses which I'd place outside. 

Once the paint was dry, I proceeded to arrange the napkin cut-outs in a way that would create a rich floral pattern without creating a feeling of overload. As the roses were cut out along the lines, I could now glue them onto the base without any overlapping and wrinkles. 

And after putting everything aside to dry, I decided to go for another layer of transparent varnish to seal the whole thing off. Unfortunately, the cloudy weather isn't good for a photoshooting either: in reality, white would be white and red would be red, but well...

A little contribution to the May collection of Create in Austria - artwork created by Austrians and/or in Austria.

challenges: 
- 613 avenue create: ATG
- a bit more time to craft: ATG
- as you like it: not a card (for my non-card projects, I'll usually take a napkin and a piece of wood which I'd upcycle using napkin decoupage - because there's nothing like to personalize an item with a pattern/colour scheme you like, or one that suits in a specific corner of your room)
- brown sugar: flowers
- crafting with an attitude: ATG
- crafty gals corner: May flowers
- creative inspirations: flowers & showers
- creative moments: ATG
- everybody art: wood
- fabnfunky: ATG
- love to craft: ATG 
- scrapping4fun: ladies
- through the craftroom door: ATG
- wortartwednesday: ATG
- worldwide open design team challenge: ATG

And where's the floral inspiration, you wonder? Buried somewhere among my memories in form of a late summer walk through park Tivoli with mom. The raindrops are proof of a recent shower, but the sun was already coming out from behind the clouds as we strolled around with our umbrellas.