A Beautiful Rose Made With Susan's Garden Dies by Sizzix

Today I experimented more with the Sizzix Susan's Garden dies. This time I made a beautiful rose. I will have to save this and add it to an arrangement or wreath.

 

 

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Experimenting With Susan's Garden Dies

Good morning everyone!  This week I received in the mail a bunch of dies by Sizzix called Susan's Garden.  It is a full line of dies to create flowers.  I fell in love with these as soon as I saw them.  Those of you who have followed me for awhile know that I started this blog to showcase flowers that I made using punches.  My header is a Christmas swag I made for a local scrapbook store that I taught at years ago.

Here is one of my first projects, a flower bobby pin for my daughter to wear.

I used the Flowering Quince Die Set.

I did not follow the directions to make the Quince but created my own fun flower using a light blue polka dot paper.  I cut each of the die pieces once and use all of the pieces.  I ran my Versafine cube in Pinecone along the edges of the petal pieces.  I colored the tips of the stamen with a Copic marker YR65 Atoll.  To glue it all together I used the best glue called The Ultimate.  I glued the petals onto the bobby pin and put a calyx under and over the bottom metal piece.  I then took the pin outside and sprayed the whole flower with Krylon Matte Finish several times. 

I designed this card for my daughter to keep the bobby pins organized.

Here is herself modeling.  It was early so she wouldn't let me take a front shot.  Maybe later.

Christmas Swag

This is a Christmas Swag I made a few years ago for a local scrapbook store.  I use to teach 3D flower classes and they were so much fun.  This I made by looking at pictures of the various flowers and them using punches to create the different shapes.

Love this Tag

So I got a new book Paper Bouquets by Susan Tierney Cockburn on making Paper Flowers. It was great inspiration. This is a tag I made for Tag Your It using my new Cuttlebug embossing folders and then a whole bunch of hand punches to make the Begonia flower. The trick to these flowers is The Ultimate Glue. This stuff is wonderful and gives your flowers dimension. I colored the edges of the flower with Copic markers. The paper is Prisma for the petals and DCWV for everything else. The image is one of my Saturday Image Bonuses. It can be found here.