Flowers

Paper crafting has always been one of my favourite hobbies from when I was little. Lately I've into Sizzix products and learning all about die cutting. During my internet searching on ideas, I came across Susan Cockburn's line of product on making 3D flowers. Making 3D flowers is what I've been learning how to doing using Tim Holts and Sizzix dies, as well as origami 3D flowers). However her products are amazing, those dies made it look so easy. Well, it is easy. I've watched all her videos, and thinking, I had to have "all" of those dies....so I placed an order on a few of them, and then a few more...lol! Once I've gotten them in the mail, I was excited to play with them and see what I can do with them. Here what I did. I've made them into flowers in a pot.

 
I've started working on the rose, and this is what I came up with.

 
The Hibiscus is the second flower I've tried. I really wanted to make it into something that resembles a plant. So I used brown paper, twisting and forming it into branches. Which is a lot of work, and my fingers started to hurt, but it was well worth it at the end when you see the end product.

 
Then I started working on the sunflower. Sunflowers are really pretty flowers, so bright. I used to grow them in my garden, but they were hard work in the autumn when you try to pull them out from the soil/ground due to their massive broom like roots. I made a bunch of them, but haven't thought of what to do with them yet.

 
Lilies are next in line. They are quite pretty in nature. This time I've used wires for the stem and floral tape to wrap the wires. I didn't have much fun with the floral tape as they were quite sticky to work with and the sticky stuff you get on your hands were hard to get off afterwards. Also, it was hard to get the glue to stick the flower onto the stem. However, I really like the outcome of this one.

 
After all those time working with flowers with "many" pedals, I wanted to make an easier flower. The dogwood flower seems quite simple and easy to do, plus it's only two die cut pedals. The only thing is that you'll have to make a lot of them. To make life easier, so I didn't have to twist paper or use that sticky floral tape for the branches, I decide to use real branches. Which wasn't a bad idea, it made it look even more realistic. What do you think?

The last two flower in the pot is the mini rose and the Quince (which I tried to turn it into a Jasmine flower). I had so much fun with these dies. These are the few flowers I made so far, and I'm planning to work on the other ones with time.

Here's a closer look at the mini roses. I found that the mini roses are more prettier compared to the larger size one. Although I did find it a lot difficult to put the pedals together due to the size, but the end results are much pretty.



Thanks Susan for such a wonder line of product. I hope to see more new products from you in the future. Here's a link to her videos of how I made these beautiful flowers. http://www.sizzix.com/susantierney

Note: Just for those wondering, the flower pot is made by paper as well (paper quilling).