Take Time to Smell the Flowers

 Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

While perusing Pinterest, I came across this picture.

 Here is the journey of my interpretation of the above picture.

Originally, I purchased Quilled Creations Blooming Roses because I'm really loving the rolled rose thing and  thought I could do this on my Cricut so I bought the Flower Shoppe cartridge. I think I need more practice on sizes for the Cricut cuts because I was not happy with my practice results.

I ended up back with the Quilled Creations roses which are simple and easy to make.

 Then I cut out the wheelbarrow from Walk in My Garden Cricut cartridge. I wasn't quite happy with the plain brown so I added black on the wheel and blue for the base (next picture.) I also inked it up a bit with some Tim Holtz Distress inks.

 I wanted it to stay simple and keep the main focus on the wheelbarrow and roses.

 Here's a close up of the flowers.

 I did add a little bit of bling on the top and tried to mimic the white gel pen markings on the wheelbarrow.

I am entering my creation in:

- Die Cutting Divas - Challenge #112

- Wags 'n Whiskers - Challenge 102

- Forever Friends Challenge - Challenge #60

Rose Button

DD had a Latin assignment due about the gladiator games. You had to pick a side (PRO or CON) and design a poster, button, t-shirt, etc. I wanted to be PRO gladiator games but she found more information against the games. We designed a button with a line from the movie Gladiator. Her stance was it would be better for the community to be a farmer and provide products than be a gladiator and die in the games. 

 I used the Indie Art Cricut cartridge for the center rose and applied Silver Stickles to the blackout layer and silver glitter to the top layer. The leaves are from the Giant Flowers Cricut cartridge.

I used pop dots for dimension under the rose and made 2 layers of leaves with the top layer scored down the middle and slightly curled on the sides.

The rolled flowers are from Quilled Creations Blooming Roses die set. I added Smooch Spritz to them for a shimmery look to them with a Recollections pearl in the center.

The back of the button has Nicole jewelry findings 1 1/2 inch pin back adhered to it so it can be worn like a real button.

Thanks for looking.