Hello there! I have three posts for you today - hence, my DDD post launched a bit early to avoid a traffic jam on the blog :)
I just love flowers! I think it's part of my English mom's heritage in me that I'm always wishing I lived with a backyard filled with an English style garden with mazes and trellis' full of flowers :) Any chance to build/craft/create with flowers is always a good day :) And since it's my turn to post on The Scrapping Cottage blog, I thought I'd bring you a slightly different treat! And one day last week I was zipping around on SCS and saw the tutorial on used dryer sheets and fell in love! We - a family of 6 - definitely have mounds of laundry and dryer sheets are a must, so when I saw the tutorial, I was super eager to give it a try. It was soooooo easy!! You can see my step by step pictorial here on the Cottage Cutz blog, and here you can see the final product :) I ended up adding my recycled dryer sheet flower to a collage. This is one of my favorite past-times to create without any general direction - all the pieces in this framed collage are all scraps! But if you truly want to some some collage-type inspiration, please stop in and visit my friend, Julie - oh my... she is an inspiration!
So here is the final result, cut using the stitched flower die (love this die!), run through the Cuttlebug with a shim and dryer sheet. After they are all out, I spritzed them with some Tattered Angels in Trunk Bay (the color :) - let them dry and edged them with some Stickles glitter glue. After that was dry, I just built up the flowers and added one of them to this collage with a verse, scraps of material and buttons and added it to a small frame. Easy and such a lovely result!
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| The Final Product - a flower collage in a frame! :) |
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| Without the frame :) |
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| Close up of the flower! |
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Big hugs,
Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly
~Kelly
Those flowers are fabulous Kelly! I remember seeing the post about doing them on Splitcoast but quickly passed over but holy, after looking at yours, I may just give these a try. The blue and sparkles look so nice with your project.
ReplyDeleteawesome!!!! I need to try this instead of throwing them away LOL
ReplyDeleteyeah what Olga said...love the bright colors...this would make a great gift...now i'm thinking of what dies i have or if i NEED to buy some
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, Kelly!! I better go pull some dryer sheets out of the trash!!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful Kelly, wonderful colors and what a great idea!
ReplyDeleteLove the bright colours of this. Your dryer sheet flowers is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWOW! So pretty, Kelly! Love the colors you used fro this and what a great tutorial too!
ReplyDeleteLynn
How sweet! Great flower! I love the rick rack too :)
ReplyDeleteGreat recycling.... go green girl! This is just lovely!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness Kelly....am loving those flowers...love the framed final product...how pretty...I'm going to have to try the dryer sheet flowers now...(you enabler)...heehee...yours turned out so nice (I may be yelling for help before I get mine done...lol) Great job..
ReplyDeleteKelly, love your flowers! I may have to switch from liquid softener to dryer sheets now!Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteDRYER SHEETS??!! OHH...another something I will just not try to explain to DH!!
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely beautiful and those dryer sheet flowers are fantastic! I love how the glittered edge helps the layers stand out!
have seen this but like Patti just scanned past...NOW, will have to try this - great pic tutorial - you make it look so easy
ReplyDeleteBeautiful in the frame!
hugs
Linda
Thank you for the lovely shout out Kelly! I love what you have done.All that spitzing and playing - right up my alley. Your finished piece is delightful and so happy!
ReplyDeleteI keep seeing what people do with dryer sheets but having never even seen a pack I am thinking thinking of an alternative!
Have a fabulous day
Julie
Wow, your flower is beautiful, love the glitz. Very pretty card Kelly!
ReplyDeleteThis is so pretty and love the flower, I saw the tutorial, but figured it was going to be too detailed, but now I have to give it a try. I love flowers as well and wish I could do what the lady in the Lowe's commercial does, just roll out the carpet! Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely! I've used dryer sheets to cover a stamped image but never cut them out like this-can't wait to try and I need to do some laundry!
ReplyDeleteI am just loving this wonderful bright framed collage you have created with your random play and dryer sheets Kelly. Just fabulous! xx
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas and execution. With all the loads of laundry you do, you will probably have to start selling the flowers!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tutorial, Kelly. The flowers looks gorgeous !!
ReplyDeleteHi Kelly,
ReplyDeleteGee, I never thought about using the dryer sheets before, but this is a fantastic idea for your layered flowers. Wonderful design.
Your collage is very uplifting and beautiful, Kelly. I've never tried the dryer sheet flowers, but after seeing yours I will definitely have to.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteWOW this is so wonderful....a gift? Someone will be truely blessed :)
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