Dreaming Tree Alluring Florals

Hello all! Years and years plus a few more years ago I took a horticulture class my Sophomore year of high school. Now I loved this class, but never in a million years would imagine it would help with what I do and love today.

One thing that stuck with me during this class was that when doing floral arrangements or landscaping, use odd number of the same color flower and/or bushes. This goes against everything in my OCD need to have everything an even number. But if it makes a beautiful scene, I'll go with odd numbers.

I've had this Alluring Florals set from Dreaming Tree since they released it. But I never found time or colors that I wanted to use to do this particular file.

However, while I was building the cameras for my Grandparents Day gifts for my last project, I just fell in love with Park Lane's Sunshine and Rain stack (found at Joann Fabric and Craft stores or on their website). I took a play off of the colors in this stack to make this flower arrangement using Bazzill cardstock for the flowers, stems, and leaves and Park Lane's Sunshine and Rain stack for the base of this arrangement.

The longest part of this project was detailing each leaf or petal.

I used inks and acrylic paints to bring a bit of contrast to my project.

For the iris flowers, I wanted a little bit of texture. I grabbed my flower rollers and quickly popped some lines in there for the texture.

Then I did a two step process on each petal. White around the outside. Quick sidenote, the mat that I am working on is an American Crafts Sticky Thumb Splat Mat. Love it. It wipes off easily, even hot glue doesn't adhere to it so it saves me the headache of cleaning my desktop all the time.

Next I floated darker teal ink for detailing. The petal on the left is the after effect.

Since I wanted to stick to the general rule of using odd number of flowers, I had to make more than what the file originally has. Which was just fine because the more the merrier.

Bazzill cardstock is a heavier duty cardstock so it holds up really well.

There are five yellow roses and five teal roses. I shaped each petal with the end of my Silhouette hook tool or even a wooden dowel before using hot glue to adhere them together.

I painted the leaves with some simple acrylic paint and a fan brush.

In the original file, there are four of these lily like flowers. To stick to the odd rule of floral arrangements, I made five.

Finally the last three flowers I did were the Irises.

As I got to this step, I decided I didn't like the way they were laid out with the top petal adhered to the bottom petal. With a true Iris flower, generally they are staggered.

So I cut out a whole new set of petals, inked them, and staggered the petals.

As you can see with the staggered petals (on the left), it is more true to a bearded Iris flower.

Finally I grabbed my Xyron Mega Runner® to build the base and vase portion of this file.

I grabbed this floral foam block from the dollar store as well as some ornamental grass for filler.

As I built my flowers, I just popped them in this vase on my desk until I was ready to assemble. My son couldn't wrap his mind around the fact that these are not real flowers.

 I started with my Irises and just kept going until I liked the final results.

Final Project: 

Materials Used:

• Paper (all bought from Joanns) 
• Park Lane
• Sunshine and Rain
• Bazzill Basic Papers
• Candy Necklace
• Pineapple Bliss
• Easter Grass
• Date Swirl
• Dark Seas
• Flintstone
• Caramel Apple
• Die Cut Machine
• Silhouette Cameo 3
• Silhouette Studio-Designer Edition
• Files
• Dreaming Tree
• Alluring Florals
• Adhesive
• Xyron Mega Runner®
• Hot glue gun
• Extras
• McGill Flower roller
• Netlab quilling tools
• American Crafts Sticky Thumb Splat Mat

FTC disclaimer: I received some of these products for free but was not compensated for writing this post. To view my complete disclaimer, click here.