3D SSS Sunflower Petals Frame

Hello crafty friends, I made a Sunflower Petals Frame using the floral die and leaves dies by Simon Says Stamp listed below.

Dies used to make the frame:

Sunflower Petals Wafer Dies ( used to make the 2 main flowers designs in the frame)
Detailed Rose Wafer Die ( Broad Leaves)
Tall Leaf Spray ( Foliage – long leaves)
Mini Slimline Windows ( The sentiment)

Here is also an idea to create 2 different flower designs using Sunflower Petals Wafer Dies and to DIY elements for your projects using stripes of cardstock + parts of leafy die-cuts.

Sunflower Petals Frame

I have been heavily inspired by my super talented friend Ilda Diaz. She has made the most gorgeous and colorful frames using floral die-cuts and I had to try her multilayer technique + my personal touch.

So what is new? Ilda is introducing and altering an old papercraft technique called “Decoupage”.

Instead of using printed images, she layers several dimensional die-cut flowers. The dimension and the look and feel of the final flowers are insane.

She has layered up to four tridimensional die-cut flowers!

How I did it

To do this, I simply put together 2 sunflowers ( each has 16 petals)
Then using dimensional foam pads, I stuck one over the other one.
To create a second flower design, I used half of the sunflower die-cut and I added used a portion of a Tall Leaf Spray to create the steam.
I also DIY the black pistils and springs.
Metallic accents were adde too, using SSS Matte Gold Cardtock.
To add sparkle to the centerpiece of each flower, I used Nuvo Morning Fog Sparkle Spray .
The center pieces were die-cut out of Fog and black cardstock.
I also used Sage Leaf cardstock as I found the combination with black and white subbtle and eyecatching.
As I wasnt sure about the background colour, I asked Alexa for the kind of colours that coordinates with white and she said “blue”, so I added a light blue background.