All flowers....no weeds!

In my first post, I promised to work up the nerve to share something that I made. Today's the day. Hope you enjoy.

So, I love flowers but I don't love weeding. Paper flowers are the perfect solution, as they don't bring along their pesky friends. Consequently, I did an imaginary back flip (a literal back flip is an impossibility) when I first saw the Sizzix line of dies designed by Susan Tierney Cockburn. I own one of her books that explains how to make paper flowers from punches for quite awhile. As much as I love that book, I often found that I was lacking at least one punch needed to execute the design. These dies eliminated that frustration entirely. I was able to quickly create enough flowers to fill a wheelbarrow with no frustrating roadblocks. Love these dies! And, I'm excited because I recently read that she will be introducing some additional flowers to this series of Sizzix products. Woo-hoo!

I first constructed the wheelbarrow using this Bigz XL die. I used cardboard harvested from the back of tablets that I saved while I was still working. (Co-workers aided and abetted my hoarding habit by sending me cardboard in yellow swiss cheese envelopes via interoffice mail!) I cut each piece twice...first in cardboard and then in card stock which I later glued to the cardboard pieces...my home made version of mat board.

 

Then, I "built" the lily, daffodil, pansy and daisies.



 

The "seeds" for my flowers were found in my Iris cart where I keep scraps of paper salvaged from previous projects. I die cut all the pieces needed to create each flower and then applied color using Pan Pastels and Copic markers. I used a Viva  Décor Sunny Yellow Pearl Pen to add the center to the daisies and the pansy. 

 

Here's a quick view of the supplies I used:

 

 



Well, that's about all I have for today. Hope you come back for another visit.