Bradford Pear Blossoms

Today I wanted to experiment!   I decided to create a card using Susan's Garden Notes Cherry Blossom die set to create Bradford Pear Blossoms.  My tree is starting to develop buds and hopefully will be blooming soon.

The Bradford Pear Blossoms were die cut using white card stock and the base of the petals colored a light green.  The stamens were die cut using yellow card stock and each die cut stamen cut in half to make them thinner.  The stamens were rolled and glued into the center of the Pear Blossom.  In order to get a very little pollen on the end, a fine tip glue bottle was used to lightly touch the end of each stamen.  A spoon was then used to spread the pollen over the glue.  I did not dip the stamen into the pollen, because it would add too much pollen.  

There is a branch in the Garden Notes Cherry Blossom die set, but I had some real branches, and wanted to see how the blossoms would look on them.  I hot glued each blossom to the branches, and really like how it turned out.

I used Susan's bird die and created a robin.  He was attached in the branch using a glue dot.  The sentiment is one of Susan's older sentiment stamps.