Dried Flower Collage
by Susan Pickering Rothamel
As seen on HGTV's "Our Place," Episode OPL-317

Materials List
  • Garden Gallery Dried Flowers & Leaves
  • Perfect Paper Adhesive - Matte
  • Duo Embellishing Adhesive
  • Pearl Ex - antique copper, antique bronze, super russet, and super bronze
  • Lumiere - metallic olive
  • Folia Super Card Stock - black, gold and white
  • Ah, That's Great Tape
  • Paintbrushes
  • Scissors
  • Deckle scissors
  • Green mat board
  • Leaf stamp
  • Stamp pad
Directions
  1. Using scissors, cut four pieces of white Folia Super Card Stock two inches square.
  2. Cut the other colors of card stock progressively larger for layering purposes. Use deckle scissors for cutting one of the layers.
  3. Cut green mat board into one large square to serve as a foundation for all the pieces.
  4. Apply Lumiere paint to leaf stamp with a special stamp pad and press onto each piece of white card stock at least once (figure A). Let dry.
  5. Adhere Garden Gallery leaves and flowers to the white mat board with Perfect Paper Adhesive - Matte and a Paintbrush (figure B). Let dry.
  6. Apply Duo Embellishing Adhesive to the piece of green mat board and allow that to dry.
  7. Apply Pearl Ex colors using a confetti-style technique.
  8. Layer and tape the matte board and card stock pieces together using Great Tape (figure C).

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Dried Flower Collage


Figure A


Figure B


Figure C