Jun 01 2009
Beautiful Flower Soft Bouquets
There’s a lot happening today on the new Flower Soft Blog and I’m so happy to be a part of it as a member of the Flower Soft Design Team! There’s a lot of beauty to behold from some fabulous designers using this fun and easy product. And making gorgeous little bouquets is what we are focusing on today, so let me show you what I did and then be sure to click on all the links that will follow to bring you to all the other gorgeous projects. Oh, and so I don’t forget, if you’d like a chance to WIN some Flower Soft product for yourself, make sure you check out the Flower Soft Blog as well! OK, now here’s my project and my very 1st Flower Soft bouquet:
A bit of a Victorian feel for today and once again, NO stamping at all – and that’s perfectly OK!!! This is a standard 4.25″ x 5.5″ card on a SU Bashful Blue base. The lower half of my white panel is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder for some texture, but I wanted to leave the upper half clean and crisp and a satin ribbon covers the line between. The beautiful floral framed oval is one of many Card Toppers available from Flower Soft. You can purchase a variety of packages of Toppers that are so beautiful and make card-making so quick — just my style! I used my oval image today as a frame for my bouquet. Here’s a closer look:
My Flower Soft flowers were easily made by applying Flower Soft Glue to a Flower Soft Wire Stem and then dropping the Flower Soft product over the sticky stem. It’s amazing how quickly and easily you can create a flower. Instruction can be seen here on the Flower Soft site. I then made a cone for my flower by cutting a 4″ paper doily into quarters and using one of the quarters. I first rolled it in a pencil to get it to take on a rolled, curved shape. Once it was working with me, then I just applied my Flower Soft Glue to hold it in the cone shape. I then inserted all my stems and once arranging it how I wanted, I just took my Flower Soft Glue and stuck the long nozzle into the center of my bouquet and gave a little squirt. I allowed some drying time and was truly amazed at how strong and sturdy my little bouquet was. I added some little buttons and a pretty little taffeta bow with long tails. This is a double bow I made using the Bow Easy. The ribbon tails are held in place with mini glue dots.
And here’s the inside of my card. The Just for You is from a package of Sentiment Card Toppers by Flower Soft and it coordinates beautifully with the oval framed Card Topper used on the card front. My birds (both inside and out) have little white pearl eyes. The bird punch and lace border punch are both by Martha Stewart. The taffeta ribbon used on the card inside is merely wrapped around the card and tied in a little bow.
Stamps and Ink: None
Paper: PTI White, SU Bashful Blue, Flower Soft Garden Borders Card Toppers and Sentiment Card Toppers
Accessories: Flower Soft Colors, Stems and Glue; Wilton 4″ Lace Doily, SU Taffeta Ribbon, May Arts Satin Ribbon, Wal-Mart Buttons, Sulky Thread, Kaiser Pearls, Martha Stewart Lace and Bird Punches, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, All Night Media Deco Corner Punch, Glue Glider, Zots, Bow Easy.
I’ll be sharing more Flower Soft projects with you regularly over the next many months, so I hope you can come back to see! Flower Soft adds a lot of dimension, texture and color to your projects — I know you’ll love it!
Now, check out the projects done by the rest of the Flower Soft Design Team:
Jennifer Buck– DT Coordinator
Sharon Johnson – that’s me!
Thank you so much for stopping in today. And don’t forget to check out the give-away over at the Flower Soft Blog! Have a great week everyone! I’m hoping to get a few more stamping projects done!
40 responses so far
Beautiful cards, Sharon! I love your bouquet in the middle of the oval topper!
Beautiful use of the toppers, and that big, bright bouquet is so fun! I also love the way you added detail to the flower ‘cone’ — gonna have to remember that! It’s so fun to have the chance to work and play with you, Sharon!
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Sharon, this card is absolutely beautiful. I love the flowers and the card toppers are wonderful to make a simple card. Great job!!
Joan
Gorgeous cards! What a beautiful embellishment tool!
So gorgeous Sharon! Love the ribbon touches to make this bouquet so very classy! Beautiful!
Sharon
There you go again! Raising the bar! This is drop dead gorgeous.
The little bird is the cherry on top
Sharon L
Your cards are beautiful, especially the first one with the flower stems.
This is just beautiful, Sharon! So happy to be working with you!
You are the cardmaker queen. These are just exquisite!
Goodness, Sharon, this is a mind blowing absolutely breathtaking card you’ve created here!!!!! That bouquet of yours is looking amazing and the inside, well, it looks just as gorgeous as the outside! This is an absolute WOW card!!! Hugs, Sabrina
Beautiful, as always, Sharon! You nailed it!
Oh my word, this is beautiful, Sharon!! I haven’t seen many things done with the flower soft but it’s lovely. What a great job. I’m thinking even if there was not enough time to make the flower stems themselves, just what you’ve done as a frame is terrific.
Just stunning! I have some flower soft and am skeerd to use it! I may have to case this card just to get my feet wet!! Hugs to you my friend,
The Flower Soft bouquet is amazing. I’d love to do something like that! But how do you fit it in an envelope without smooshing the bouquet? Maybe an envelobox? Thanks for sharing, the whole card is gorgeous.
Sharon, this is just beautiful! I absolutely love this! Your topper is beautiful and the bouquet is STUNNING! 🙂 Love this! Such a beauty! Looking forward to working with you on this team! 🙂 Hugs! 🙂
wowsers Sharon! I just love how you mixed the colors in your bouquet!!
gorgeous!
Congrats, Sharon. Glad I already have almost all the colors as I know you’d end up making me want to buy them! lol Love your bouqet and card.
Most EXCELLENT artwork!
Just beautiful!
Both cards are gorgeous, Sharon! (Do you know that there are question marks at the end of every sentence in your post? I didn’t know if you were seeing that or not.)
so amazing!
WOW! Sharon this is gorgeous!
WOW, Sharon! Your flower bouquet is amazingly gorgeous!
Well, you have shamed me! I bought a whole bag full of Flower Soft products a couple of months ago and, well, they are stored nicely on my shelf. After seeing your gorgeous creations- I am getting them out and making something pretty. Thanks for the inspiration. Blessings, Diane/Planted in Joy/Lost in the 60’s
Gorgeous!!
Very pretty. Congrats on being on the DT! I have two suggestions for the company. Make a finer version for use with really tiny flowers ( call it Baby Soft??)and put an email subscription service on the blog.
Your card is so beautiful. I need to work with the Flower Soft again.
This is gorgeous, but do you know if it will hold up well in the mail?
Very pretty. It is so elegant.
WOWZER!! This is just stunning!! Love the softness!! 😉
Wow! Beautiful bouquet! The card is so elegant! Love the flower soft! The bow is so cuteQ
Your cards are absolutely beautiful. They are such an inspiration. I am enjoying my Bow Easy and beautiful blue satin ribbon, and am anxious to use my Cotton Scraps.
Thanks for sharing.
What a beautiful card, Sharon! So serene!
Sharon –
I absolutely adore this card. What a sweet tussie mussie! What a fresh, clean and elegant card with an old-fashioned feel to it. Love it! Thank you so much for sharing.
Elaine Allen
Love the bouquet card. What a wonderful way to use flower soft.
Hugs
Heather
Gorgeous card! It is just so soft and elegant. Beautiful inside, too! Great work!
What a beautiful card! Subtle and very detailed at the same time!
WOW! Love all of your stuff but this card is gorgeous! Your work is just awesome! TFS!
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