What is your favorite Susan's Garden Die

 Look at all these beautiful flowers that I created with the new Sizzix flower dies by Susan Tierney-Cockburn.   These dies are available at Joan's Gardens.  Joan and I are interested in knowing which flower is your favorite, so if you leave both of us a comment, a winner will be chosen, from a random drawing, and announced Wednesday morning.  The winner will receive the "Susan's Gardens" LEAVES set worth $18.99.  You can see this die set in Joan's post.

  All these flowers were very easy to create with Susan's new improved flower petals and tools. As I mentioned in a previous post, Susan Tierney-Cockburn designed the petals on the Punch Bunch punches we started creating flowers with.   All these dies come in a separate little plastic envelope for storage and with instructions. When you get your flower dies, I suggest you write the name of the flower on the back of each die, just in case you have more than one set open and get them mixed up.  There is a diagram of each die in the package on the back of the instruction sheet, but I found it a great help to have each die marked - I used a fine point Sharpie. I do want to mention again that the new Sizzix Flower Tool Kit that Susan designed is much improved over the old tool kit.  It has everything you need.  This kit has a special tool and pad just for adding a realistic look to your leaves and petals, that you did not get in the old kit. I will talk about some of the features of these tools in upcoming posts.

I can't tell you which one of these flowers is my favorite because I loved creating all of them. Which one is your favorite?  I created three different colors of the dogwood so thought I would start showing you my card collection featuring the white dogwood.

The background paper I used is from the Graphic 45 "Secret Garden" paper pad.  The border around the card was created with the Martha Stewart "Vintage Floral" punch set.  In the center of the card I placed the Spellbinders "Medallion One" doily and in the center of it I attached the Spellbinders "Lace Doily Motif".  The pretty dogwoods were created with the Sizzix "Susan's Garden Dogwood" die set.   Don't they look like real flowers!  The sentiment is from the Our Daily Bread "Birthday Blessings" stamp set.

I will be posting more cards this week showing off the beautiful flowers from "Susan's Garden" dies.  If you would like a chance to win the "Garden Leaves" die set, be sure to leave a comment blog on my blog below, and then go over to Joan's Gardens and leave a comment.  

Products used:

Sizzix "Susan's Garden" Dogwood  Flower die set 658405

Sizzix "Flower Tool Kit"

Viva Decor "Paper Pen Green" #703

Graphic 45 "Secret Garden" design paper 8x8 pad

Spellbinders "Medallion One" S2-014

Spellbinders "Lace Doily Motifs" S5-063

Martha Stewart "Vintage Floral corner/border punches

Our Daily Bread "Birthday Blessings" stamp set #D301

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