Susan's Garden Quince and Grid Works

 Today I have a project I loved working on and I hope you like it as much as I do.  This is a 6" square black box I decorated using Susan's Garden Flowering Quince dies, Susan's Grid Works (1 3/8in Squares), and Graphic 45 "Secret Garden" design paper.   The Grid Works were very easy to create and so much fun to work with.

 I LOVE the design paper in the Graphic 45 Secret Garden 8x8 Paper Pad.  One of the sheets had a variety of images I thought would look great die cut with Susan's Grid Works die.   You know how I like to duplicate flowers in design paper!   Well I die cut a lot of the Quince petals, using a very light peach card stock the same color as the flowers in the design paper.  At the base of each flower petal, I sponged on Fired Brick Distress Ink.  The flowers turned out exactly like the ones in the design paper.  Tomorrow I will post a tutorial on how to create the Quince Buds with these dies. 

This is a picture of the Susan's Garden Flowering Quince dies, the Susan's Grid Works squares die, and the Art Squares "Inchies" (Black 1-1/2" squares) I used.  Susan as designed Grid Works dies to fit a variety of Inchie Squares which are available from Ellen Hutson, LLC.  These are the same squares you see Susan use in her instructions when creating flowers.

 To decorate this box, I added a Tim Holtz, Locket to the front of the box, and Tim Holtz Box Feet to raise the box.  Adding these embellishments really created a very elegant box.

I added a few embellishments (bird cage, bird, and "Harmony" die cut) to the top of the box from my stash.   I'm sorry but I don't know for sure where they are from.

 On the inside of the box I added another piece of the Graphic 45, Secret Garden design paper, and another stem of Susan's Garden Flowering Quince.   

As I said above, tomorrow I will post a tutorial on creating the Flowering Quince.  I hope you will be back.

You can purchase all these products from Ellen Hutson, LLC:

Graphic 45, Secret Garden 8x8 Paper Pad

Susan's Garden, Flowering Quince dies

Susan's Garden Flower Tool Kit

Susan Tierney-Cockburn, Grid Works (1 3/8in Squares)

Inchies Squares, Black (32 1-1/2" squares)

Tim Holtz, Locket Keys embellishments

Tim Holtz, Foundations, 4 Box Feet

Fired Brick, Distress Ink

Ultimate Glue

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