Coreopsis

Today I was going through all my Susan's Garden Note die sets and found her Coreopsis (#1008) die set.  This was one of her first sets when she was with ECD.  The flower has individual petals.  Also used for this arrangement are the Garden Notes Ladder Fern, Berry Branch and Ivy.  They were all placed in the Garden Notes Galvanized Bucket.

I did a search on Pinterest and found this picture of a coreopsis.  It is different from any other variety I have created with Susan's die sets so challenged myself to create it.

The petals and calyx were die cut out of yellow card stock.  The middle petals of the flower are orange down at the base, so I sponged orange ink at the base of a small group of petals.   The petals have a ruffle look to them.  In order to achieve this, I lightly misted the petals with water the crinkled the ends of the petals between my fingers - accordion style.  Since this flower has individual petals, it has a calyx die cut piece to glue to petals to in order to create the flower.  When die cutting the calyx, die cut two for each flower.  I will explain down in this tutorial.

To form the flower, begin by gluing petals to every other point in the calyx.  Use the yellow petals for the lower portion of the flower.  The orange ones are to be used in the center.

Glue petals in the other points of the calyx between the first petals glued on.  Keep adding petals, alternating between petals, until you have a pretty full flower - about four rows.

In this picture you can see two calyx.  The one on the right has been cut from the outside edge toward the center between each of the points and down the center of each point, to make it frilly.  The one on the left has not been cut.  I hope you can see the difference.  

Glue the frilly calyx in the center of the flower.  Add a puddle of glue in the center of the calyx.

Add yellow pollen down on the glue in the center of the flower.

Use yellow Prills to glue to the top edge of the calyx in the center of the flower.  Pick up a Prill, drip it in glue, and place on the edge, going around adding Prills all around the edge of the calyx.  Push the flower petals up toward the center to create a full flower.  Since there are single petals, if you need to add more petals in the body of the flower, for fullness, you can add glue to the base and push them in.  

This is a close up of the finished Coreopsis.

I know a lot of you have some or even all of Susan's die sets, from years past.  I hope, if you have this die set, that it inspires you create flowers with it.