Thursday, January 16, 2014

Susan's Garden Fuchsia

 When I started creating flowers, out of card stock, I never dreamed I would be able to create a Fuchsia.  Every Spring I look forward to getting a large hanging basket of Fuchsia for my front porch.  They are so beautiful.  Susan Tierney-Cockburn has developed Fuchsia dies, gives us instructions, and has a video to help us create her very realistic Fuchsia flowers.  The instructions for creating the flower are included in the Fuchsia die package, and here is the link to her Fuchsia video.  Once you watch her step by step video, you will find it is very easy to assemble these beautiful flowers. 

In this picture I am showing the plain bird cage and all the shaped Susan's Garden  Fuchsia flower pieces I will be using to decorate the bird cage.  I find it helpful to have all the pieces colored and shaped before I start assembling each individual flower.

I found it is important to watch Susan's video for easy assembly.  The first time I created this flower, the video was not published and I have to tell you that it was much easier this time following her steps, than trying to figure it out on my own.    In this picture, you can see the calyx (base) glued together with the wire inserted.  Starting with this step, you get perfect flowers every time!  I know you will enjoy creating this beautiful flower.  The Fuchsia comes in many different colors.  This bright pink and purple happens to be my favorite.


Here is another picture of the Fuchsia on top of the cage. Don't they look realistic!   I have added a flameless candle in the bottom and surrounded it with a variety of other Susan's Garden flowers.  The small flowers added are:  small roses created with "Mini Petals"; Mini Lilies; "Violets", and mini daises. 

You can order your Susan's Garden Products from Ellen Hutson, LLC.  Here are the links to the products I used today:

Susan's Garden, Fuchsia
Susan's Garden, Mini Petals
Susan's Garden, Mini Lilies
Susan's Garden, Pansy/Violets
Susan's Garden, Mini Daisies
Susan's Garden, Flower Tool Kit
Susan's Garden, Pan Pastels
Susan's Garden, Pollen
Ultimate Glue

1090992

11 comments:

Antoinette Voorn said...

Wowwww Selma this is really out of this world...so beautiful!

Maryann Laursen said...

WAUW Selma, this is absolutely outstanding work and it looks fabulous. Impressive work on this here and so beautiful.

Glenda said...

Be still my heart! How gorgeous is this? I bow to you...the queen of flowers!

Eva van Buuren said...

Wow Selma...this is breathtaking!!
What a gorgeous fuchsia flowers....and so REAL!!
You are a true artist!!
Hugs, Eva.

Ms said...

This is absolutely beautiful..... so gorgeous.... you are such a talented lady... Thank you for sharing your wonderful creativity

Bonnie Weiss said...

One word .... UNBELIEVABLE.

Anonymous said...

Selma, This is absolutely gorgeous! Well done!

Debi Lefever

April said...

Fabulous! The flowers look so real. Great job as always!

Colorado Crafter said...

This is so gorgeous!! I don't have this die, but I have a few of Susan's other flower dies and I have to say that I've been a bit intimidated to get them out and try them. I know I need to just take some time and watch the videos and then just jump in and do it. All of her flowers can be made to look so realistic.

Anonymous said...

Wow! You never cease to amaze me!

MarieL said...

Absolutely beautiful...a "shower" of gorgeous fuchsia....just lovely

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