Samaflora Roses

I've been lucky enough to be accepted on to the Design Team for Samaflora for the next 3 months. Sam makes the most amazing paper flowers. If you look at photos you can hardly tell they're made of paper at all!  I've never been one for using flowers in my designs before, but these I couldn't resist :D

Being on the DT means I had a wonderful pile of roses come through the post a few weeks ago which I got to play with :D (it's a hard life!!!)

I've made 2 creations so far - a wedding card & a hat band. The roses are a pleasure to work with an so versatile.

Here's the Wedding card. I used the lovely Wedding Couple from Redonkadoodles  & made it lovely & bright. I used my lovely yellow roses & foiled the wording with gold foil on my Foil Master. I love the depth the roses give the card.

My second creation was a flower head band to go around my hat. I've had one on my hat for years with cala lilies on it, but unfortunately my young niece decided to 'pick' the flowers last year so it was left a bit bare. I kept the basic head band and when the Samaflora roses arrived I knew they were perfect for the job. 

This is what I stared with -the band, some leaf trim & 6 lovely white roses from Samaflora 

To make the roses more durable I dipped them in UTEE melted in my Meltpot. I used my heat tool to the thickness of the UTEE as it ended up quite thick when first dipped & meant the detail of the roses was lost a little. Blowing it carefully with the heat gun worked perfectly.

I attached the roses to the head band by winding the wires around it and then wound the leaf trim around the wire to make it look nicer. 

Here's the result

and on the hat 

I hope you like them. I'd love to know what you think. 

I have some more roses to play with so will create something else very soon x

I'd like to enter my head band to the Anything Goes challenge on the Through the Purple Haze Challenge blog. It's a new challenge blog with a challenge every week & I'm going to do my best to enter every week. A huge challenge for me, but something I'd love to try x

Digi Galore Challenge - Summer

It's challenge time over at Digi Galore again. This fortnight the theme is Holidays and our sponsor is Sassy Studio Designs 

I decided to create a corner bookmark for a holiday journal for someone going on holiday to China. I used my Hougie Board to make the corner bookmark and China Honey from Sassy Studio Designs.

The background paper and tags are from a Papermania pack called Oriental Treasures. 

I coloured China Honey with my Promarkers 

and printed the words in a the free Shanghai font from DA Font and foiled it on my Foilmaster from Thyme Graphics 

Come on over and join in x