Since my Sneak Peek Week post featuring all of that island-themed product, I’ve had several inquiries regarding how to create the Pumpkin Pie flower using the Island Floral Bigz Die from the Summer Mini. So I’ve created a quick little tutorial to share how I made that fun flower. For those of you who aren’t demos and don’t yet have this die, just bookmark this post for your reference later should you purchase that die! Or try this out using a smaller 5-petal flower die cut or punch if you have one.

For this project, you will need:
Paper: One sheet of cardstock in the color that you want your flower to be, and two 1-1/2? x 2-1/2? pieces of a green cardstock for the leaves
Tools: Island Floral Bigz Die (2010 Summer Mini), Big Shot Die Cutting Machine, Standard Cutting Pads, Paper Snips, Paper Piercing Tool, Sticky Strip, yarn or some fairly thick string

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I like to do montages and find a lot of brush sets contain lots of stuff I don’t use. I set out to change that.

I made these floral brushes as they are very useful add-ons when doing fantasy landscapes, scrapbooking, card making etc. I have also included a couple of more abstract flower shapes for general use. I specifically included roses which I use quite a lot as I am from the County of Lancashire in the UK and the Red Rose is our County symbol (if you remember your history lessons about the Wars of The Roses). My son and his family live in Holland so I have also included the Tulip, which again I use quite a lot.

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