It's Friday Die-Day on a Saturday!

Hello friends,

Yesterday I was asked where you can purchase Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
products in the UK.
Pickleberry Papercrafts, Cutting Edge Crafts, Craftie-Charlie have their items.

As I mentioned Friday Die-Day would be pushed along to Saturday this week,

hopefully you will not mind!
I had a request (thank you Sarah Costello) to demonstrate the Bauble Blossoms dies -

so here goes!  There are Bauble Blossoms One 

and Bauble Blossoms Two (both beautiful)

I'm going to feature Bauble Blossoms Two today, but the idea is same with both sets.

You receive three dies, one of them is a long strip - that is the flower centre.

The other two are different flower petal shapes so you can make two different flowers or mix and match.

This is how they look cut and embossed - I've used plain cardstock but they look equally lovely with patterned paper.

To create the centre you need to roll the strip into a tight spiral, I've used a quilling tool 

(very cheap one on eBay!) but you could use a thick needle or your pokey tool.

Roll tightly and when you reach the end secure with a dot of glue.

Select your petal strip, the embossed (right side) goes inside, 

I found this makes a difference when rolling the flower, it spaces the petals well.

I like to run a line of PVA glue along the edge but you may prefer to just roll and secure at the end.

This is how it looks once you've completely rolled one petal strip onto your flower centre. 

You can add more strips for a fuller flower.

The fun part is opening out your petals - just lightly flatten down the layers, again you can open them fully, partially - however you like your flowers to look.

The glue is still a little wet but I was keen to photo them! 

They are so pretty and quick to make.

I hope you enjoy Bauble Blossoms.

I should mention, my demonstrations are just my interpretation of creating with the die templates, you may discover different and better ways so please experiment - 

there are no hard and fast rules - in fact in crafting no rules apply, 

well aside from one ... you must have fun! :)

Back tomorrow, take care friends.