Couple of flowers with a different look

[mmeyer]

I used a different processing technique on these two flower images. I'm interested to know what you think. Thanks for looking.

[Birdsong]

The tulips almost look like oriental rice paper or some of those hand made papers. I do like the blue veining in them, maybe a little different crop, or does it lose the effect? The green of the stems is interesting. I just wondered what a little leaf might offer. I can't imagine what you did for processing.

[Dbl]

I like the treatment in the second one. The first I think the effect might be a tad strong. I like what it did with the background in #1 though. Mask it off and tone it down on the flower?

[mmeyer]

Thanks for the comments. I'll try to post before pics later. Dan, I do think that masking off the flower and toning it down would improve that. I was trying to think of a way to make it a little better.

Birdsong, I was going for a rice paper or textured paper look so I'm glad that I accomplished that.