What do you think of when you hear the word ‘daisy’?
My first thoughts are of the little wild daisies that grow in my lawn, followed by the tall, semi-wild Ox-eye Daisies that my father loved to grow on his allotment. Or the Michaelmas Daisies that my mother grew in our garden, to provide some colour in Autumn - but which refuse to thrive for me! And then there’s one of my favourites, the white Marguerite, especially when grown in a pot . . .
But for my new April Birth Month Flower cards I’ve chosen the little daisies, that we used to make daisy-chains as children.
I made the motif from a handpainted collage as that seems to add depth and texture to what could otherwise have been quite a bland illustration.
The symbolic meaning of the Daisy is: innocence, loyal love, hope and purity and they can represent, ‘I’ll never tell’ so can be given to a friend as a promise to keep a secret.
You can read more interesting facts about daisies HERE.
But when I think of daisies, I think of cheerfulness and sunshine and that's the message they often convey in greeting cards and other situations that call for something akin to a smiley face! Maybe that’s because they open early in the morning and love the full sun upon their faces?
I’ll let you into a secret; when I saw that the Daisy was the Birth Month Flower for this month, I thought it was going to be really hard to come up with ideas for patterns that I would be enthusiastic about.
How wrong I was! This one unpretentious little flower, nearly always regarded as a weed, soon had the design ideas flowing and flowing . . . and I’ve ended up wanting to carry on and make more!
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Daisy Chain
Collection
2 comments:
Your designs capture the cheerful sunny disposition of those beautiful little flowers
Thank you, Carole. I'm glad I succeeded in conveying the cheerfulness that daisies seem to spread!
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