Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Tassel Flower Picture

Hello,

welcome to my little crafting place

I've more lovely new goodies from Spellbinders to share with you. This time its new flowery dies from Susan Tierney-Cockburn's Serenity Garden collection.

You've probably realised that I am really enjoying making shadow box pictures just now, and these beautiful dies were a great opportunity to make another 3d project!

I made up the flowers with the help of Susan's wonderful videos - always worth checking out for her tips on how to make all the different flowers!

I used Susan's Garden Specialty Cardstock, then inked the die cuts in my chosen shades

I made the layout, leaving room for the words, then created the box frame to fit, I prefer to do it that way rather than fit the 'image' to an already made frame.

I wasn't familiar with Tassel Flowers so did a bit of research:

"Tassel flower commonly refers to Emilia sonchifolia var. javanica ('Irish Poet'), a delicate, half-hardy annual with vibrant orange flowers popular in UK gardens, often blooming from summer through autumn. These 30-40cm tall plants attract pollinators, enjoy full sun, and make excellent, long-lasting cut flowers."

I found that in the language of flowers the tasselflower symbolises beauty, resilience and enduring love. words which I thought would be perfect to complete the picture

I also decided this picture wold look better with a darker frame so used a square die to cut an aperture in a piece of blue card then trimmed to be just a bit bigger than the original box frame to add an extra frame.