Hi there all. I thought Id make a little flower gift for my friend June who is in hospital. June loves her garden and her flowers but the hospitals no longer allow fresh flowers or plants to be brought into wards. So I thought what is the next best thing well try and recreate a plant pot or flower pot with some blooms to brighten her time there. Her name is June as well so I thought ok lets go with 'Junes blooms'.
Junes son David and his business partner Paul inspire me with their cake making skills and the roses they wind out of icing, (
http://www.designer-cakes.com/) Hence,I made all the ribbon roses for the wedding in July past.
SO I took it one step further and made a card with fabric roses and a felt pot. Then tried to 3d it a bit by adding vellum flowers punched out too.
Here is what I ended up with ....i made it larger than normal as it had to sit on the table at the end of the bed to accomodate her other more necessary items on her side table.
Made in the style of an easel card
Closer view of the fabric wound roses
Nestabilities used to create two layers for a little heart saying 'just for you'
Took me ages to get the bow just right so it sat straight. I really should invest in a glitter girls bow shaper, hey santa are you listening?? Or at very least my super handy hubby could make me a little wooden block with some dowels and spaced holes for different sized bows eh Johnny are you listening?
Pearlidoodles to create shiny flowers and write junes blooms although shoogly hand doesnt help!
Gave up trying to tie two tiny bows and cheated a bit. I folded ribbon till it sat the way i wanted it too and i put two tiny tack stitches in them to hold them there then glued them on with pinflair glue
voila
i went back to my decoupage cds box to find a card to make that i could write in
I printed the loops on using white cardstock 300gsm and then burned them out using the chizzelit from provocraft. it is kinda like a dremel tool but in a prettier colour and made for crafters :o).
Then i printed a watering can and flowers three times on one sheet of lightweight decoupage paper which is quite glossy. I printed the verse from a book of quotes of anna griffins but i didnt want it on vellum so i printed it on pc. I placed a singlepiece of ribbon behind verse and folded it back on itself to look like a tag.
I layered up the watering can and added a few paper punched flowers which I soaked first and scrunched up to make them more dimensional.
Finally I added stickles and two little beads which are a bit of a cheat as well. I used a sheet of acetate and dropped little drops of white glue on to it. I lef it overnight to dry and hey ho they look like pearls when they are dry. You can spray them with mica to change the colour if you want but i just left them white here. The last thing was to ensure there was enough stickles on the card :oP I LOVE STICKLES!
Oh and a little confession the white glue into beads wasnt an original idea by me, much as I wish it was :o(.
The idea came from Sue from creative expressions USA, so thanks Sue for your cheaper shortcuts, i love it when we can find a shortcut to create some beautiful embellishments and dont have to pay the premium price for a tiny handful of them.
