Christine's Creative Nook

  Welcome my crafty friends! Today my card I created has spring wildflowers we have here in Maine.  As I was looking around our new home this spring I saw the Dog Tooth Violets / Yellow Trout Lilies  growing on the edge of the  woods and thought that would be a great flower to create to go with the Forget Me Nots and the Lily of the Valley .  Susan doesn't have a die for it but decided to challenge myself to see if I could recreate them.   I picked some of them brought them in and started going through my dies and came up with some I thought would work. For the  Dog Tooth Violet / Yellow Trout Lily I used S2-376 Blackeye Susan from Birds & Bees Collection , S4-1235 Magnolia from Victorian Garden Collection and of course for the other two flowers I used Spellbinders Susan's Garden S4-1085  Lily of the Valley from Spring Flora Collection ,  S2-340 Forget Me Not from Garden Gate Collection .   I created a 5" X 7" card b...

  The real deal! I just want to say I am not a tutorial writer I have only done this to give you an idea of  how I did it but I am sure someone will figure out a better way. Using the petal die from  the Spellbinders Susan's Garden S2-376 Blackeye Susan set I cut several sets of petals using Spellbinders Susan's Garden Speciality Paper.  I colored my petals using Olo Y1.2 I added a little brown PanPastel to center area  Next I used the large ball stylus to cup them (right side down on molding mat not shown her) next I placed on my speedball mat and pierced the centers for the floral wire. I inserted the floral wire (approximately 4-5" long as to make sure you have enough then when flower is assembled you can cut off extra) into the hole from outside in and twisted wire with pliers to keep it inside.   once wires were inserted I formed flower with my fingers and inserted into the 1/4" hole of Susan's flower mold  then spritzed lightly with water an...

 Hi my crafty friends! Just thought I would post a couple of popup cards I created in a class I took with Karen Burniston . no tutorials but just fun cards.  Karen has the most amazing interactive dies I have ever seen. Pop Up Grasshopper Ladybug Pop Thanks for stopping by today!!! Christine You only live once if you live right once is enough! Unknown