Flower Power Inspiration

This month over at the Cuttlebug Blog the theme is FLOWER POWER! I love this... you can create basically anything with flowers! Here is my project for this week....

I love love love how this turned out! My BFF had her baby on April first... and traditionally you get flowers for the mom... well here are her flowers! Click on pics to see the patterns on the flowers.

Recipe:

I used my Cricut Design Studio to cut all the flowers so I could see how big they were... therefore I really don't know the actual sizes... (sorry) I will guess that the big daisy is 6x6 and sunflower close to that.

Cricut Carts used: Walk in my garden (all flowers), Hello Kitty Font and Alphalicious (its a boy)

Cuttlebug Embossing Folders used: Argyle (lg daisy), Swiss Dots (center sunflower), D'vine Swirl (sm daisy), Spots and Dots (little red flowers), Textile (little yellow flowers)

Paper: basic bazzill card stock: yellow, blue, green, brown, purple: Bazzill Bling: red

Ribbon: Offray: yellow, green, blue....technique.... I wrapped the ribbon around wooden dowls... sprayed them with spray starch... and put them in the oven on 200 degrees for approx. 15 min... Voila! Curly q's... however... they were not "stiff" so I had to use floral wire (spiraled the same as the ribbon) and glue the ribbon on the wire...

I used an old vase I had at home and bought some decorative accents gems to put in the vase. I glued all the flowers and stems to "kabob" sticks I had in the pantry left over from last years bbq season.

Birthday Gift

Happy Birthday to my good friend Annie! She loves the "country kitchen" idea. I hope she likes it!

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I just love the way these stars turned out! You can't tell from the pics, but they look like wooden stars!

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(close up of cranberrys)

When I started this project I went through all my carts trying to get the best "cranberry" branch. This is the one I thought worked the best. And I finally started using my Cricut Design Studio. This is actually my first project using it. So lets get down to the recipe!

Cricut Cartridges = Home Decor (branches), Doodlecharms (cranberrys), George and Basic Shapes (stars), Hello Kitty font (kelsey), Jasmine(home, story, our), Alphalicious (is, where, begins)

Cricut Design Studio = weld the letters together

Paper = Sassafras lass (background), dk brown(branches), dk maroon(cranberrys), black (letters), golden (stars)

Ink = Ink it up- brown (stars, cranberrys, branches)

White colored pencil (cranberrys)

The board was bought at Lowes and is 5.5 X 24. I cut the background paper slightly bigger than the board.

Well I hope to have inspired. Don't forget to leave some love! Enjoy!

Vote!

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Recipe:
*Hello Kitty Cartridge = Kitty, letters & flowers
*Home Accents Cartridge = embelishment top left
*Cuttlebug (love language) embossing folder = picture mat & "Hello" letters
*Cardstock = white, black, yellow, purple, pink
*Misc paper = page
*Studio g ink (purple) = flowers, edge of page
*Ink it up ink (black) = edge of page
TYFL, Enjoy! p.s. don't forget to vote!