Dahlia and Pussy Willow Branches

My friend Christine Smith Pooler created beautiful Pussy Willows for a card she recently posted on Facebook.  She created them using wool roving.  I love her pussy willows but did not have the wool roving.  She was very sweet and sent me some roving so I could try and create the pussy willows the same way she did.  Thank you Christine.  I had fun playing with the roving -  I do think I need more practice.   Christine has a tutorial on her blog - Christine's Creative Nook, (christinepooler.com) that I followed.  I did end up creating mine a little different, but the technique was the same.

Also, another source to learn how to make pussy willows is to watch Susan's  Garden Club Facebook Live Video (Easy Brayer Background Technique, Peonies, Dahlia, and Pussy Willows).  She shows step by step  how to create pussy willows plus shows how to create different flowers.

For this card I used a piece of design paper and die cut an oval on the upper left side, using Susan's Oval dies.  A piece of woodgrain design paper was glued behind the opening.  In the upper right corner I gold embossed the sentiment - the stamp reads 'In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.'  This is one of Susan's older sentiment stamps.

The pussy willows were created and then glued to some tall branches (an old die was used for this).  This arrangement was tucked down into the bottom of the die cut oval.  Susan's Garden Notes Dahlia 2 die set was used to create the dahlia.  Ladder Fern was die cut, colored and shaped for the background.  

It is always fun to try something new.  I plan to create more pussy willows using the wool roving.