This week we’re looking at making your own flowers. Though we saw quite a few of them already in the embellishments week, it hasn’t stopped our design team from coming up with ever new and astounding techniques.
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Louise really enjoyed creating these flowers; whilst it isn’t a new technique, Louise really wanted to create her flowers with this technique as it allowed her to upcycle and use one of her favourite products, tissue paper. To create these flowers you will only need a few basic materials; scrap cardstock, tissue paper, stapler/staples, and quick drying glue. Louise first cut some small circles from the scrap cardstock; approximately the size of 20 and 50 cent pieces.
To get the tissue paper twist, tear up the tissue paper to an approximate rectangle measuring 30 cm x 20 cm. then twist it into a cord. Staple 1 end to the centre of a cardstock disc. Apply glue to the cardstock disk and then gently and firmly twist the tissue paper cord down and around in a circular motion onto the disc. Firm gentle finger pressure for a minute will ensure that the tissue paper cord stays adhered.
Louise has decorated her flowers by first coating them with gold glimmer mist, and then embossing them with gold embossing powder. To complete the flowers she has used beads to create the flower centres. You will also notice that Louise has deliberately left the ends out on a couple of the flowers, so that she can fashion them into leaf like elements.
Janine had been wanting to use her Websters Pages Fabric strips for quite some time and when she saw a tutorial on Lesley Langdons blog, she knew exactly what she was going to do!
Janine cut the largest fabric strip in half, then cut down the scallop edge trim to create 2 pieces from that as well. Using a zig zag stitch on her machine she sewed the scallop edge piece of fabric to the straight piece. Because the fabric is stiffened it is very easy to handle when sewing together. Then she used a long hand stitch to gather the straight long edge to create the ruffled flower. She finished off the flower with layers of punched paper and a fabric covered brad.
Carole created some fun and bright Felt Flowers using Prima Paintable Doily Clear Stamp and Dynasty Flower Centres and Crate Paper "Paper Doll" Collection. Firstly Carole stamped the Paintable Doily onto different coloured felt and then she stuck the felt onto some cardstock and cut out, and embroidered onto the stamped design with floss and beads. Using foam tape she layered each piece and then finished the flower off with the Dynasty Centres.
To create the different sizes within the flower Carole cut away some of the stamped image which also became a smaller flower. To stitch onto the felt Carole used a Paper Piecer to push a hole through the felt and the cardboard. To create the different size within the flower Carole cut away some of the stamped image which also became a smaller flower. To stitch onto the felt Carole used a Paper Piecer to push a hole through the felt and the cardboard to make it easier to embroider.
