I LOVE FLOWERS and the hydrangea and landscape (or knockout) Roses are two of my favorite. The roses are fairly easy to grow but this type of hydrangea is perplexing me in my garden. It’s much easier with paper! LOL
I always look to Susan Tierney-Cockburn’s You Tube videos for tricks and tips. I’m glad I did again as I wasn’t sure what to do with the three oval dies that came with the pedals and leaves. Turns out they are used to help lift the pedals and give dimension to the blossoms. Once done it works very easily. The second tip I picked up was to do at least 30 pedals per flower — that means die cutting the blossoms three times. The more pedals the fuller the flower becomes. I choose to die cut 60 blossoms and colored some of them with Puffy Heart Altenew marker. The others I left white so that I could show two flowers of different colors.
The leaves were cut from some patterned paper but still colored with green alcohol markers – Swamp Green and Oak Moss. The underlying pattern of the paper only adds to the texture on the leaves.
Before I glued the flowers onto the card front, I splattered the blue with White Splatter, then built up the flowers over the leaves. To the centers of the blossoms, I added a pearl dot for those that would be showing on top. The sentiment is from Smooth Lines Mix and Match.
This second card shows the beautiful Landscape Rose. Again, in Susan’s tutorial video she shows not only how to make the flower but how to make buds. I wanted them to stand out as the main features of this card giving it lots of white background.
But I also recently saw a Braided card front and thought that was very exciting. I researched the information on making this and practiced — lots of times before I felt good about its results. If you are interested here is the link that shows how to make this gorgeous edging. https://brandyscards.com/braided-card-template/ Thank you, Brandy for showing such a great demonstration.
The landscape rose was made with pale pink paper and brushed with Altenew Blush ink on the edges and centers of each layer as well as the buds. The yellow stamens were cut in white and colored with a yellow alcohol marker the touched with pollen powder that looks sooo realistic. These leaves were just inked as the ones above only on white cardstock. The sentiment from Stylish Oval Birthday Wishes was stamped with Distress Spun Sugar. This was such a pretty layout but with just a bit of gold splatter from watercolor paints it is elevated to super unique!
Again, I just love these flowers and how realistic they look and the details Susan puts into her dies. I hope to continue to grow my “paper garden” for many years. What’s your favorite flower? Is it one of the die sets Susan has created? Please let me know what you think and if you have something you would like to see made into a die set.
Thanks for visiting and please come back again soon.
Hugs, Penny
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