Big Shot Circle Die Fabric Carnation Flower

I discovered that you can use your big Shot Circle die to make a carnation look alike flower while making a bouquet for a bride recently...

It is a little fiddly however the results are quite nice....

I can not wait to try these out with some Stampin' UP! fabric!!!!









You need to cut the largest size circle and some roughly 15cm lengths of wire

 Fold circle in half 3 times
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 Make a loop in the wire approximately 2 to 3cms from the end.







Place loop over the end of the cone shaped material

 Wrap wire around making sure that you catch the bottom of the cone in the wire and wrap TIGHT & CLOSE!!! this secures the fabric so that it does not come out.

Wrap around at least 5 to 6 times.....

 Repeat this step three times

Secure all three together by wrapping one of the wires round all three.

Take each bud and stretch material to puff apart fabric

And Whalah... you have a lovely look alike fabric Carnation.....

And here is the finished product.... Beautiful Modern yet traditional bouquets of silk flowers....

Simple Sympathy

A funeral can be quite heart wrenching.. I am glad that I have the knowledge and belief of an afterlife... and that I know I will see my family again and I will be with them again... Sometimes I feel  funerals are a lot harder for those of us who are left behind... We can go through a such and immense range of emotions when a loved one passes on... At times it can be a great relief especially for someone who has suffered in this life... Because I feel that it is often a time of sadness I like to make it more more beautiful and more like a celebration with loads of colour in my arrangements... Because Colour and Beauty help me to feel loved, Happy and testify to me that the Lord is in control and he knows all our pains and is always there to comfort us in our time of need.. After all the Lord created all that is beautiful in the world... and when someone is born or dies I believe that is the time we are closest to the Lord!!! Which is as BEAUTIFUL as BEAUTIFUL can get!!!

One of our lovely Paper ANGELS team remembered this week that I am a florist and asked me to arrange some flowers for her.. and in 2 days she had 5 other family members that wanted arrangements as well...  Felicity said that she would prefer to give the business to me.. and she knew for the $$$... I would include many more flowers than the florists!!! I hope these arrangements pleased them all.. And gave them something Beautiful to offer and to remember their loved one by... 

I wanted to include a lovely Simple Sympathy card with these arrangements so that I could write the individual family members messages on it..... the technique I used on this card was to put different couloured drops of my ink refills onto a baby wipe and use that as a temporary ink pad... it creates the perfect COLOURFUL rainbow effect that I felt would compliment the lovely Rainbow arrangements.... It is quite cool really... You can whip these cards up in a matter of moments.....  and there is no real need for embellishments because the colour is quite spectacular in it's self...

This arrangement I called Sunset... Because of the Beautiful Red, Orange and Yellow colours...

These Three are in baskets.. the two outside ones are large baskets with a rainbow of coloured flowers...  The Middle one is a more traditional small basket of Pink and Yellow....

These two are again more traditional arrangements the purple and yellow one is in a box and the all yellow one is in a vase.. I always think it is nice to have something to keep afterwards... and a vase is a great way to have a gift of flowers and then something to keep...


God Bless ... May the Lord Comfort your family Felicity at this time.... xxxooo

Table Decorations - Star of the Night

Gail wanted me to create some table decorations for her Daughter's special occasion... The theme was purple silver and stars.... in the center of each I needed to make a photo holder spring... so that each table could have back to back photos so all the guest could see them...

These were fun to create... However just having the big stars by them selves... well it seemed a little incomplete to me so I had the idea of shooting stars which I then created with the spray of the three small stars.. Cool hay??

Hope the function is a great SUCCESS Gail!!!

Love Ursula

Wedding Boquet of Feathers

Chloe was my bride with a difference... she really wanted a bouquet with out using flowers... She loves feathers, the whimsical & graceful way they move.... She really wanted a bouquet that would not die. And it was a must to incorporate some butterflies as part of the theme...

This was a challenge for me at first as I had no idea how I would construct such a magnificent vision that was in her head... However as most artist.. I tackled it with the "I CAN DO IT" attitude... With no particular finished picture in my mind I went to and started to create a MASTER Piece.... one small piece at a time...

This divine BOUTIQUE bouquet is definitely a one of a kind... And is such an amazing dream and idea that I am very grateful Chloe came to me to make it a reality!!!!


Corey (the Groom) needed a matching button hole... complete with butterfly and feathers...




And their BEAUTIFUL little baby had to have a matching wedding party head band too....

Chloe's Bridesmaids needed a similar style of bouquet but not as full and with some lovely crystal and black feathers.
And some lovely hair pieces complete with feathers and crystals....







Both Mum's had a lovely wrist corsage of white roses each...





And the Groomsmen and Dads had white roses and Chloe's Dad wanted a red rose to match his red tie....

May Wedding Flowers

I LOVE Wedding flowers!!! .... This one was fairly simple in the fact that the flowers were required for a photo shoot (done by my friends from Pure Focus) and all the client wanted was a Bouquet of flowers and a button hole..

This picture looks like they were peach in colour but they were actually Pink... And looked stunning with the light green!!

April 2010 Wedding Flowers

I loved working with the Spear Grass.. something a little bit different.. It adds some texture... and interest...... and I ALWAYS love the BLING in the bouquets!!! Muwah.. perfect!!!

Bridal bouquet of Champagne Roses with Spear Grass And Diamante Sprays-

& side view with white satin wrapped stems


Bridesmaids White Roses with Silver Ribbon and Leather Fern....

And Side View... with Silver Metallic ribbon wrapped stems...

Bridal throw away bouquet of Champagne Roses with Spear Grass -

Side view with Satin Bow and Wrapped Stems

QLD Stampin' UP! Regionals

We had Brisbane QLD Regional training in November.. It was yet again another great way to learn more Stampin' Up stuff... I love Training and conventions.. because it is a wonderful time to get together with other Crafty people and be inspired and taught!!!! Win Prizes and thank those who have made our Stampin' Up! time a AWESOME experience...We surprised Liz with a big arrangement of flowers to say thanks for all the PA activities meetings, fundraising and leadership for the year...













I arranged them for Liz the day before as we had a 8.30am start..... lucky I had a wedding that I was delivering into the city the day before cause it all tied in really nicely to drop Liz's' arrangement off so she had NO IDEA about it happening... hehehe.. Berry sneaky!!!

We all signed a card for Liz.. I made it with some wonderful inspiration from Leonie's little Angel punch art that won our last PaperANGELS Punch Art comp... thought it would be appropriate that it had 'Paper Angels' on the front of it.. Thanks Leonie!!!


The ladies either side of me won free stamp sets.. Yeah... one of them is not 'yet' a demonstrator.. they were both heaps of fun to sit with... I was loud.. trying to get QLDers to be excited.. jump and shout and interact with the whole event.. with ohhhs and arrhhhs and clapping... it took ages to warm up the crowd but I did not give up!!!! heeheh...

Wedding Flowers

I also do Wedding Flowers.. just thought I would put a link to my Album... There are so many more but I just do not have photos of them all yet... Sometimes I even forget to take them.. dough!!

Enjoy looking... I love Flowers they are so beautiful... It's wonderful working with something that is naturally beautiful to make it MORE beautiful!!!

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