Susan's Garden Crepe Paper Poppy

I hope you are all having a nice Memorial Day Weekend.  We are having nice weather so are getting some yard work done.  I received a new set of JustRite stamps called "Winged Vintage Labels Two & Three" that I used on this card.  This is another set with labels, butterflies, and a lot of great sentiments.  I white embossed the label with the sentiment, and the butterfly, on black card stock.  The design paper is a piece from my stash.  

I had a couple of email questions about the Sizzix, Susan's Gardens Poppy I created the other day.  If you want to use crepe paper, you need to place the petals on the crepe paper so the lines run up and down in order to get them to shape.  I tried it with the lines going side to side, and I had a hard time getting the petals to shape up "fluffy".

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Here is a picture of how you would place the petals on the crepe paper streamer.  

I also had a question about the center I created for the poppy.  You can purchase the "Lisa Pavelka" Daisy Chain Border Mold from Joan's Gardens.  She also has the "Makin's Clay" which is an air dry clay. I have yellow and black clay.  For the pink poppy, I colored the yellow clay with pink Adirondack Acrylic Paint.  Since the Daisy Chain is a mold, you can press in clay along the entire border and then just cut off one of the little circles for your poppy center.  Today I didn't even let it sit long before pulling the clay out of the mold.  It held its shape very well and I even glued it in with Crafter's Pick glue before it was dry. 

Products used:

Sizzix "Susan's Garden Poppy" 658416

Sizzix "Flower Tool Kit" 658437

JustRite "Winged Vintaged Labels Two & Three" (CR-04465)

Lisa Pavelka "Daisy Chain Border Mold"

Makin's Clay (air dry)

Crafter's Pick Glue 

Sizzix Big Shot 657900

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Susan's Garden Pink Poppy - Tutorial

I really love playing with the new Sizzix, Susan's Garden Flower dies.  Today I tried something different with the Poppy dies.   I have some of those crepe paper rolls and decided to see what would happen if I die cut the flower petals with it.  I doubled up the streamer 6 times and die cut all three flower petals.  That gave me 6 petals, for each size, to work with for this flower.  I die cut two of the base pieces (out of regular card stock) and glued all 6 of the largest petals to one base, then 6 of the medium size petals to another base piece. I did shape the petals with the largest stylus in the Flower Tool Kit.   You need to use just a small dot of the Crafter's Pick glue on the tip of each petal when gluing, because the crepe paper is very thin.  Press each petal down into the base, with a small stylus, as you glue them down.  When the layers were dry, I added the 6 smallest petals in the center of the base with the middle size petals so I could have a "frilly" poppy.   Glue the two layers together to form your flower.

To create the stamen, I used something I have in my "stash".  It is a metal border mold by Lisa Pavelka and I pressed in some No Bake Polymer Clay.  The clay I had was yellow and I wanted a pink center for this flower so used the Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber in Shell Pink to apply paint to it.  I wanted dark purple lines in this center piece so used a purple marker to draw them in the creases in the molded piece.   In the Poppy Die package, there are dies for the stamens, but I needed longer stamen pieces so used the ones in the Cheery Lynn BAF #1 die set because they have very thin and longer "legs" that would fit around the polymer clay piece.  I die cut them using a very dark purple card stock. I die cut the leaves from the Poppy Die set and used the tools from the  Sizzix Flower Tool Kit to shape them.  I wanted to have some "rough" texture on the leaves so I put them in the "Sizzix Snow Flurries #2" embossing folder.  You could use any embossing folder you like.  

The background on this card was embossed with the Sizzix "Brenda Walton Damask" embossing folder.  My card is 5.5" x 6" so I had to run the front piece through on the embossing folder twice to get full coverage.  On top of that embossing, I placed the embossed Oval, that was fussy cut, from the Sizzix "Loving Thoughts" embossing folder set.  The little butterfly is from the Cheery Lynn "Mini Butterfly" die set.   Two pearls were put on the frame using the Viva "Ice White" Pearl Pen.   

I hope you will experiment with your flower dies and come up with some new pretty varieties of flowers.  It is so much fun.

Well we have a big thunder storm outside so I better get off the computer.  Hope you like my new creation.

Products used:

Sizzix, Susan's Gardens "Poppy" die set (658416)

Sizzix, Brenda Walton Damask embossing folder (658352)

Sizzix, Loving Thoughts" embossing folder set

Sizzix, Snow Flurries #2 embossing folder (658197)

Sizzix Flower Tool Kit 658437

Crafter's Pick white glue

Cheery Lynn "Mini Butterflies" (DL112)

Cheery Lynn "Build A Flower #1" dies (B181)

Viva Ice White Pearl Pen 101

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Joan's Gardens Weekly Challenge

 

It is time for a new challenge at Joan's Gardens.  This week we would like for you to decorate a box or container that can be used for a Christmas gift.   I have decorated a small box I had in my stash.  The size of this box is 3.5" square.  You can make and decorate your own box or decorate or recycle any type of box or container.   Please go over toJoan's Gardens to see all the rules for this week's challenge.

To decorate the top of the box I used the Tim Holtz Sizzix "Tattered Poinsettia" die.  After die cutting it, I used the Tim Holtz "Slight Alternations" stamp to add texture to to the petals.  Under the flower, I added the doily from the middle of the Cheery Lynn "Scandinavian Hearts" die.  I added Twinklets "Diamond Dust" on this doily.  Leaves from the Cheery Lynn "Rose Leaf Strip" were arranged under the poinsettia.  The white pine branches are from the Cheery Lynn Wreath Strip".  Gold beads were added in the center of the poinsettia.

Under the box I added the pretty Cheery Lynn "Sweetheart Frame".  To give it a lot of stability, I die cut two frames and glued them together before attaching them to the bottom of the box.  On the sides of the box I added the Cheery Lynn "Merry Christmas" sentiment.  All four sides have on part of the sentiment attached.

Joan and I are looking forward to seeing your creative ideas.  

Sizzix "Tattered Poinsettia (658261)

Poppy Stamps "Blooming Poinsettia" 861 (for green leaves)

Cheery Lynn "Sweetheart Frame" FRM 127

Cheery Lynn Merry Christmas Set (B186)

Cheery Lynn "Scandinavian Hearts" (DL155) doily from center of this set

Cheery Lynn "Wreath Strip" (B216)
Cheery Lynn "Rose Leaf Strip" (B241)

Tim Holtz   "Slight Alternations" stamp set (CMS060)  Stampers Anonymous

Twinklets Diamond Dust

Pop up glue dots

Glue N' Seal

ScorTape

Flower Tool Kit and Mat

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BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED plus Tutorial

My card today is made using two JustRite stamp sets:  "Seeds of Kindness" and "Hope".  I wanted my greeting to be in a square but the verse I wanted to use come in a set with round centers and borders.  I first stamped  the frame from the "Hope" set, then using the round clear stamping block, stamped the verse from the "Seeds of Kindness" set in the center of the stamped square.  It is so neat that you can mix and match your stamp sets from JustRite.  I also love that JustRite is coming out with clear blocks to make it easier to see right where you want to stamp.  The image was trimmed using a paper trimmer and the corners punched with a corner rounder.

The design paper is from the Basic Grey "Sugared" paper pad.  A white border was created using the Martha Stewart "Gothic Arches" punch and then embossing the rest of it with the Cuttlebug "Kassies Brocade" embossing folder.  This design paper has roses in it so I decided to create some flowers using crepe paper and the dahlia Nestabilities.  There is a tutorial below.  Leaves from a Sizzix die were placed under the paper roses.  A Martha Stewart punched butterfly was added to complete the card.

Below is a tutorial on how I made the crepe paper roses.

I used a roll of pink crepe paper streamers.  Starting at one end measure the width of the die and then fold crepe paper over so you have 12 layers.  Cut it off the roll.

This picture shows the stack of crepe paper after it has been run through the Cuttlebug.  You can also see the cut out flowers once you discard the outer portion.

You need to separate each layer then stack so petals are staggered.

Use a paper piercer to create a hole in the center.

Put a colored brad through the hole to hold the flower together.

Starting with the very top layer, start pulling the petals up to shape into flower.  Do this with each layer.

This is what the finished flower looks like.

All the products I used can be purchased from Joan's Gardens.