How pretty is that?!

Well, you'll be happy to know that she shared the entire tutorial on how to duplicate this beautiful piece of art here. She did such a great job with photographing the process, I thought I'd share some of the photo documented steps she gave on how to create each of the flowers.

A huge "Thank You" to Hilary, for her amazing creativity and for sharing it with the crafting world at large!! I don't know about you, but I couldn't wait to get started! Based on Hilary's tutorial I decided to try her simple carnation tutorial. Here's my first try (I colored the edges with a marker before I unfolded the paper, it was a pretty little touch):

Paper Dahlia

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It may not be dahlia season just yet, but that doesn't mean you can't channel this flower's intense color and festive attitude here and now. For these eye-catching favor pouches, we used bright tissue paper to create a pattern that mimics that bold beauty, then tied on a tag bearing planting instructions, and verdant ribbon to pose as leaves. At home, guests will peel back the petals to reveal a dormant dahlia bulb brimming with potential and just waiting to take root. You will need: Dahlia bulbs, Swan Island Dahlias

Tissue paper (we used colored tissue paper in azalea (CT1AP), $11.95 for 480 sheets) String or heavy thread Ribbon To wrap the bulb, stack two pieces of tissue paper and fold them in half side to side, then top to bottom. Download the PDF of our dahlia template, and print onto standard printer paper. Cut out template; then lay on top of folded tissue paper, aligning straight edges of template with the two folded edges of the tissue paper. Trace lightly around the template, and then cut on the line to create a tissue-paper dahlia. Open tissue paper and rotate top sheet slightly so the petal tips are staggered.

Wrap the bulb in another layer of tissue paper, and place it in the center of the tissue-paper dahlia. Wrap the tissuepaper dahlia around the bulb, drawing the sides up and to the center; secure with string (leave ends long for now). To make the tags, download the PDFs of both the initials tag and the planting-instructions tag. For the initials tag, type in your first initials and wedding date. Print onto 8 1/2-by-11-inch card stock.

For the planting-instructions tag, print onto card stock. Using a 1 1/2-inch circle craft punch, punch out each tag. (Turn the craft punch upside down, so you can see the positioning of the design in the hole of the punch.) Place an initials tag on top of an instructions tag, and use a small hole punch to make a hole through the top center of both tags. Thread string through the holes and tie; trim ends. Wrap a pretty ribbon around to cover up the string, and tie.

How to Make Paper Flowers

Parece mentira que todava estemos en primavera. Vemos chanclas y tirantes en la calle y huimos del sol de medio da. Los domingos llenamos las playas y soamos las vacaciones de verano. La primavera va llegando a su fin, pero antes de que termine y en honor a ella, hagamos unas flores.

Estas flores, que bien podran ser peonas, estn hechas con papel higinico teido. queris saber cmo se hacen?

Lo primero que vamos a hacer es teir el papel. Hay que tomar tiras de cinco trozos de papel doble capa. Yo las hice con Carmen, as que prob con pintura de dedos y con acuarelas. Las dos funcionaron.

El rosa y el amarillo estn teidos con pintura de dedos disuelta en agua y aplicada con un atomizador. El rojo, con acuarela, sacudiendo el pincel bien cargado. Se puede golpear el pincel contra otro seco o sencillamente cogerlo con los dedos pulgar corazn y golpear con el ndice (como si tirramos la ceniza de un cigarrillo)

Una vez seco ya podemos hacer las flores.

Ponemos los 5 trozos de papel uno encima de otro. Plegamos en acorden de modo que nos queden 6 lados. Atamos por el centro con un alambre. Arrancamos -nunca cortamos- las esquinas. Dar un aspecto ms rizado y natural.

Como el papel higinico tiene dos capas nos quedarn 10 "ptalos" por lado. Vamos levantando capas una tras otra. Primero de un lado y luego del otro. Por ltimo ligamos la flor a una pequea rama con el alambre sobrante.

Fciles, baratas y preciosas! Si no tenis ramas o palitos a mano podis hacerlas con alambre siguiendo los pasos de este tutorial. Utilizad desde el principio un alambre largo y luego cubrid con la cinta el "tallo". (Tambin se pueden hacer con la cinta verde que venden para hacer flores artificiales)

Supplies: Crepe paper sheets Scissors White floral cloth wire White floral tape Glue Microbeads

Instructions: 1. Cut a strip of crepe paper about 5-4 inches wide and about 18 inches long. The grain of the crepe paper should be parallel to the longest sides. Fold in half several times until you have a small rectangle about 2 inches wide. 2. Cut the top edge, rounding it out to create a semi-circle shape. Unfold crepe paper strip. 3-4. Refold the crepe paper strip, but not exactly in half. When bringing the short ends together, stop a few inches short of matching them up exactly. Fold a few more times and cut a rounded petal edge on the opposite side as before. This will ensure that the scallops on each side are somewhat staggered. Unfold. 5. Now fold in half length wise. Take one end of crepe paper strip and secure it to the top of floral wire by making a loop with the wire and twisting it around crepe paper. 6. Begin to form flower. Gather the crepe paper as you turn the wire stem, and secure it with floral tape. Once the flower is fully formed, wrap the tape partially down the stem. 7. Using your fingers, adjust flower petals. Crepe paper has a bit of a stretch, so you can gently pull edges of petals to create a more realistic look. In the center of the flower, add a dab of glue and cover with microbeads.

How to make recycled paper flowers

October 08, 2010

I learned to make paper flowers a long time ago with directions from a library book. They don't require any adhesive, and there are just four shapes to cut out.

Use them to decorate gifts or make wreaths. I chopped up a fancy Urban Outfitters catalog for these. You can make template pieces to trace around and then cut out the shapes with a scissorswhat I used to do. But this seemed like a good test for the Silhouette cutter, so I recreated the pattern pieces in Illustrator on my Mac and commanded the machine to cut them for me. It took about fifteen seconds to cut the parts for one flower. Whoa. I shall never return to my primitive, scissors-wielding caveman ways.

If you'd like to download the PDF templates, get the large flower here and the small flower here. [Cutting from Adobe Illustrator with the Silhouette currently requires a free plug-in called Cutting Master 2 that works with Illustrator 10 - CS5, available for Mac or PC.]

To make the flowers, do the following:

1. Score the back of each petal along the lines shown in pencil, above. 2. Pleat the petals along the scored lines, always folding in the same direction.

3. Fold the triangle portion of the stem in half lengthwise. Do this two more times until it reminds you of a toothpick. 4. Using a chopstick or skewer, roll the "flag" portion of the stem toward the "toothpick." This curl will form the center of the flower.

5. Curl the ends of each petal backward to give them shape. 6. With a skewer or sharp pencil, poke a hole in the center of each flower piece. 7.Thread the pieces onto the stem, from smallest to largest. Finished!

I saw a picture of a glittery pink flower and decided I needed to figure out how to make a one for myself. Here are the step by step (mostly) pictures and directions: (click on picture to see it in its full sized glory)

Step 1: First take a length of crepe paper streamer (mine is about 24" long) and fan-fold into eight layers.

Then cut out a double humped shape to make the petals (you will have eight of them). They don't have to be perfectly even. Step 2: I took a small button and smeared a thin layer of glue on it and then plunked it into the glitter. I then took a small rhinestone and put it in the middle for added bling. I also got the base of my flower ready. I just cut a circle about an inch in diameter out of card stock. Step 3: I found the best way to glitter the edges was to pour a little pile of white glue and a little pile of fine glitter onto a piece of card stock. Then fold the petal in half and gently dab the edges in the glue and then in the glitter. Unfold and let dry. Step 4: When the petal edges were dry I scrunched up the bottom and glued it to the outer edge of card stock circle. Do the same with the second petal, glueing it to the opposite side. Step 5: Repeat with two more petals. Step 6: For the second layer of petals I glued them a little closer to the center and off-set them so they covered two of the petals from the first layer. Step 7: Repeat with the last two petals. Step 8: Glue your glittered button to the center.

Tissue Paper and Tulle Flower Tutorial.

Well, here it is - a tutorial on how to make a tissue paper flower (with tulle). Good luck and please feel free to ask any questions in the comments section if anything is unclear.

First of all, assemble your stuff - tissue paper (2 colours if desired), tulle, string and scissors.

Cut two rectangles of each colour and two rectangles of tulle. The flower I have made used 38cm x 25.5cm sheets but it doesn't really matter, just so long as the pieces are all rectangular and of the same size.

Lay the six sheets on top of each other. If you are using colours, I tend to put the darker sheets on the bottom, lighter ones in the middle and tulle on top however, living in the creative world we do, don't let me stifle you. Line up their edges and begin to fold them back and forth in a concertina. My folds were about three centimetres wide but once again, don't let me rain on your parade.

Once the folding is complete, bend it in half like a fan and tie it tightly (so that it gathers) in the middle with string

Snip the ends with scissors to make a petal shape.

Fan out one side into a half circle.

Then, delicately begin separating the layers, taking care not to ruin the pleats or tear the tissue paper (when this happens, don't cry... I sort of just shove it back in and hope no one notices).

Continue separating and

Lifting and zshoozshing (an extremely technical term that may or may not have or have originated in 23BC China... or maybe just two minutes ago).

Unfurl the other side and continue in the same way, separating, lifting and zshoozshing.

Finally, use your hands to gently scrunch (I am now just thinking what... use your hands as opposed to your mouth... as though you need advice to prevent you from making your tissue paper soggy and unusable) and zshoozsh to manipulate it into a pleasingly floral shape (but once again, don't let my need for a chaotic symmetry suppress your inner urges - if you want it to sprout in one particular direction, don't let me tell you it is not regular enough). And then you are done!!!

Now you can go crazy with any colour you like. The above two have eight layers of tissue rather than six... there are all sorts of crazy ways you can go so get folding and have fun. p.s. Can you tell that I have been at home with two little boys today, none of us very well. Maybe I have been just a little too excited communicating to the outside world, but you know, some days are long and the good bits have to be savoured (the writing and taking photos bit... not the explaining why you can only have antibiotics when it is prescribed to you and it is not favouritism that Archie (bronchitis) gets to have pink liquid and the other one (sore throat) gets to have none. It really doesn't smell very nice anyway.

I have used only retro flowers in this tutorial, and I hope you find something new that you would like to try out.

First I will make some lace flowers, and for this you need a scalloped punch. These are the punches that I used.

Turn the punch upside down, and do one petal at the time.

Here you can see my flowers, before I distress the edges, and decorate them

. Almost done. Here my flowers are finished.

Now I will make a big flower. You need a two sided pattern paper, and punch out two large, and two small flowers, and a small circle. The circle will not show.

Fold all the flowers. Fasten the two large parts next to each other, by using the small circle.

Turn the flower, and do the same with the small parts.

Decorate the center, and your flower is done.

For my next flowers I have used cardstock, fabrics, and double sided adhesive tape. All kind of fabric can be used, but it is best if it is not too thick.

I start with fastening fabric to the cardstock. Then I drew the flower, and cut it out by hand. Punch and fabrics are a bad combination.

Now I have made a small flower as well, and distressed the edges. Now I just decorate the center, and my flower is done.

These flowers are made the same way

My last flower is easy to make, and if you have some ribbon leftovers, it will be perfect to use here.

Make a hole in the center of the flower, and cut small bows on each petal with a scalpel.

Now you use the ribbon, like shown in the pictures.

Now all you need is a decoration in the center, and the flower is finish.

For this project you will need:

1. Vintage lace- I'm using a double lace I found at the op shop today. 2. A hot glue gun

Start off by putting a small dot of glue on the end you want to be the middle of the flower. Fold the end over so it sticks Using the glue, double the lace over so it sticks there, as in the photo above.

Continue around the middle gluing it back on itself every centimeter or so, like above. Try not to use too much glue but make sure it can't come apart. After doing this for a little while your flower will start to look like this.

Continue to go around the edge doubling back all the time. Keep flipping your flower over to make sure it looks right.

Eventually the back will start to flatten out as you go around, the flower will spread out more.

Once you've decided your flower is as big as you want, cut off the lace and glue it down.

The blue and purple ones above are ribbons, if you use ribbon double it back more often than with the lace because it wont spread itself out like the lace does. The same goes for lace that isn't already ruffled like this one below. This one was actually a very wide piece of lace so I folded it over and went around on the fold, it turned out really well, with more volume.

Doily flowers and something extra ::Tutorial::

Supplies:

Now make lots more with different types of doilies

Or if you dont want to make anything with doilies, you should buy one of Cams amazing brooches, ingeniously made from doilies!
No sew lace flower I love lace, I love scrapbook flowers and I hate sewing. So here is a no sew lace flower tutorial. I can't take full credit because I did see something similar on a blog long ago (can't remember where) but I made mine a little fuller than hers.

You'll need a cardstock circle (rough cut mine about 2 inches), 18 inches or so of THIN lace (or sheer ribbon) or more if your circle is bigger... and a strong fast drying glue that dries clear. This will not work with thick/dense material. Also, the cheaper and rough (not soft and flat) thin lace works better (YEAH!).

STEP 1: Put glue on outer edge of circle. UPDATE: Or use a Cosmo Cricket Gluber (so much easier)

STEP 2: Pleat and fan (like a deck of cards) the first two folds and be sure to turn the starting edge under for a nice finish. Continue pleating and fanning around the circle and add a dab of glue in every pleat.

STEP 4: Put a big glob of glue in the middle and work your fold towards the center.

Step 5: Turn edge under and decorate middle with pearls, beads, a brad etc.

SPEP 6: Once dry, fluff lace.

Vintage Style Flower Tutorial Sorry it took me so long to get this tutorial up, but here it is! I was inspired by Donna Salazar's layered flowers (hers are more grunge style with 4-5 layers of old maps and book pages) and wanted to create a soft delicate, vintage looking flower that was a little easier to manipulate with a whopping 10 layers of various materials. My finished size is 5 inches in diameter. I've seen a similar paper flower technique used with only cardstock on several blogs... but using different paper weights and sheer materials is what gives this flower the shabby vintage look.

What you need is 10 circles (whatever size you want the flower to be) of various materials that you can get a brad through all the 10 layers. Good choices are doilies, tulle, tissue paper, cardstock, mulberry paper, vellum, book pages, etc. You want the layers to vary slightly in size and be of different paper/material weights for amazing texture.

Here is what I used, two tulle circles roughly cut to 5 inches, three layers of thin mulberry paper (can use tissue paper) wet torn to 4 inches for a fuzzy edge, a small 4 inch doily, a few white cardstock circles cut with deco scissors and punched with MS lace border punch 4-5 inches, the inner circle of a larger doily 6 inches. I also inked the edges of the cardstock papers in brown, used bronze glimmer mist, water mist and a large brad.

Step 1: Mist the doilies and mulberry paper on one side and gently crumple. Glimmer mist the cardstock on both sides and crumple.

Step 2: Gently unravel (be careful with the thin papers) and layer onto brad alternating materials.

Step 3: Crumple each layer at a time towards the center, starting with the top layer. Let it dry a little.

Step 4: Before it completely dries, gently unravel the layers, starting with the bottom and place as desired to reveal all the gorgeous textures. You can leave the last layer closed if you prefer.

Here is my finished flower with the middle opened to reveal the brad. So fast and easy to do!

Wild Roses Tutorial I have been wanting to do this flower for a while but needed the right technique. Then, I saw some gorgeous flowers made by Charlotte Ravn and she was so sweet and shared how she got the precise wrinkled look to her flowers. This, combined with some modifications ended up looking like the wild roses I was trying to achieve.

Here is what you will need: 3 large, 2 medium and one small flower (I used my retro flower punches but any similar die or punch will do). Ink for the edges, water to mist, glue, a few thin items like paintbrush and skewer, plus a foam mat.

Step 1: Heavily mist the flowers (I had lightly inked the tips first) and curl around a smooth item, then while holding the petal around the paintbrush, GENTLY pinch each petal to wrinkle. This will not work if it is not wet enough. This was the awesome technique tip from Charlotte - curl, hold and pinch - genius! Then, let dry a little. You won't be able to do this with the smallest flower so just smash up the petals a little with your fingers.

Step 2: When almost dry, press into a foam mat to lift the petals. If still too wet, the paper will rip. Let completely dry.

Step 3: Glue all your layers from largest to smallest, while off-setting the petals. The skewer comes in handy to push the small flower into the middle. TIP: Once the glue dries, I like to slightly pinch a few petal ends and re-ink a few tips to give a more realistic look.

Here is a picture of Charlotte's gardenia style flowers that I used for inspiration. I suspect she used 2 large, 2 medium and 2 small flowers and moulded the ends while they were wet to get this look. I left mine to dry curled.

Sugarplum Flowers Here is my version of Prima's sweet little sugarplum flowers. I just can't justify the $5.00 price tag for 9 of these when I can so easily make them in just a few minutes, in any color I want, and at a tenth of the price! Here I used some of my Pion Design scraps from the "fairytale of spring" collection.

Materials: Three small (one-inch) punched/die cut flowers and three mini (half-inch) flowers, water to mist, glue, deco scissors, a stylus (or end of a thin paintbrush) and a foam mat (like a mouse pad). I used my EK Success retro punches but any five petal flower will do.

Step 1: Trim the very tips of the 3 larger flowers with your deco scissors.

Step 2: Very lightly water mist all 6 flowers and crumple. Do not over wet them or they will rip.

Step 3: Open them up while still damp.

Step 4: Glue the 3 larger flowers (off-set the petals) together and press into the foam mat to lift the petals.

Step 4: Glue 2 of the mini flowers (off-set the petals) in the middle and press again into the mat. It should look like this:

Step 5: Pinch together the last mini flower and glue into the middle.

Step 6: Slightly smash the center and let completely dry.

That's it! Super easy flowers and so cute on shabby layouts.

Here was my Prima inspiration, pretty close to the real thing don't you think? Mine are just a tiny bit smaller than theirs since I clipped off the ends of the petals.

Shabby Crinkle Flower Tutorial Here is a smaller, easier flower than my elegant ruffled flowers... for those who like the tattered look (and don't have the patience to do the other ones, LOL). They are more "forgiving" that the ruffled ones, a lot easier to manipulate and so much faster results. My flowers are 2 inches in diameter, using 1 and 2 inch flower punches (but use any die cuts you have). It's a great way to use your scraps since you don't need a lot of paper!

Here is what you need... 3 medium flowers, 3 small flowers and something for leaves (a green pointed petal flower works well), tweezers, water mister and glue. I lightly pre-inked the edges.

Step 1: Lightly mist the 3 medium flowers and crinkle them into a ball.

Step 2: Immediately unravel and use tweezers to gently twist each petal and push towards the center. Before removing tweezers gently pinch in place. Also mist the 3 small flowers and do the same twisting (they are too small to crinkle and there is no need). Let them all dry now.

Step 3: Gently unravel the medium flowers and 2 small ones. For the last small one, squish the petals together and pinch the bottom - this will be your center.

Step 4: Assemble your flower by off setting the petals as you glue. NOTE: you can omit the the pinched center and add a brad or gem instead if desired.

Step 5: Once it is glued, squish the entire flower towards the center to give the crinkle effect and then glue on the "leaves" if you wish.

That's it! Here is a side by side comparison beside my larger layered ruffle flowers.

NOTE: you can also use this type of flower center in my ruffled flowers as pictured below in the larger white one. Experiment and have fun! Add chalk ink, Glimmer mist, Stickles etc. for more sheen and dimension too! All I ask is that you please give credit where due (to ANY artist) because tutorials take a lot of time to produce. Thanks!

NOTE: the smaller white one pictured above is the result if you don't do step 5 and squish the flower towards the center once glued. It looks more like a Prima Camelot flower that way. Elegant ruffled flower tutorial OK, so I have been researching techniques to manipulate paper to create ruffled flowers for a while now. I actually combined three paper techniques that I found on You Tube and came up with my own ruffled flowers. These take a bit of patience but turn out wonderfully.

I am going to show you how I did the lilac one using heavy cardstock because heavier two-sided cardstock is the easiest to manipulate. The other two I used lightweight cardstock - I like them better but the paper tears easily when dampened. My flowers are 3 inches in diameter but you can make them any size!

Step 1: You need to gather 3 large punched/cut flowers, 1 medium and 5 small. It really doesn't matter what punch or die cut you use as long as there is a bit of separation between the petals. You also need a pen or pencil, tweezers, plain water mister and I forgot to put adhesive in the image - but that's a given right?

Step 2: VERY lightly mist the large and medium flowers, then using your tweezers gently twist and push the petals towards the center. Be careful not to overly wet them or they will rip. Right before you take the tweezers out give it a gently pinch to keep in place.

Step 3: Set aside to dry.

Step 4: Lightly mist the 5 small flowers. Then using your pen end, cup them around and roll then against the pen to get a good cup shape formed. On one of them pinch it to create your flower center.

Step 5: Glue the 4 flower cups into each other and press with pen end. Remember to off-set your petals. Then glue your center in. Set aside to dry. NOTE: This makes a pretty little rose on its own... just add leaves or a green star-like punched flower underneath to simulate a baby Prima rose.

Step 6: Lightly unravel your 3 large and the medium flower and glue them into each other, the medium one on top. Remember to off-set the petals again.

Step 7: Lightly push back the petals of the mini rose and glue it into the middle of the larger flowers. You can add leaves, or attach to a paper vine/flourish. You can also create "leaves" by putting a green pointed petal flower underneath. I just inked white cardstock.

Then you're done! I love the elegance of these flowers. You can also Glimmer Mist, add Stickles or simply ink the edges as I have done. I over inked the centre to show you the definition but I like them better more lightly inked in the center to look more natural.

I really enjoyed creating these. NOTE: I actually used the pointed flower base to create the pink one below. Like I said use whatever punch or die cut you have because once twisted they all look nice. Have fun and don't forget to show me your results! All I ask is that when possible you please give credit where due (to ANY artist) because tutorials do take a lot of effort to produce. Thank you.

Easy Folded Flower Tutorial As promised, I am going to do an easy folded flower tutorial as seen in one of my recent May Scrap That! kit layouts. At the end, you'll have a two-layer, 6-petal flower as shown below. The beauty of these flowers is that you don't need double sided paper (like you do with most other folded flowers). This is not a new concept and I cannot take credit for inventing this flower... I found it a long time ago on the internet along with other folded flower tutorials that I will be providing in the near future.

Step 1: Punch out 6 large circles and 6 small circles. I used a Fiskars and a Creative Memories Punch.

Step 2: Fold the circles in half with the pattern (that you want showing at the end) on the inside and then fold up the bottom a third of the way up. Make sure that all of the circles are folded the same way. Mine I do with the curve facing left as shown below.

Step 3: Unfold back to a semi-circle position and use the crease that you just made as a guide to "open the petal".

Step 4: Repeat this for all 12 circles.

Step 5: Glue your flower layers together by glueing one bottom "flap" to the back of a petal at a time, until all of them have been added. I find that using a glue stick is less messy and works best so that if you need to adjust the petals to be spaced

more evenly at the end... then it allows you time (since it dries slower than other adhesives).

Step 6: I ink the edges before glueing the two layers together and then finish off by adding Stickles to the centre or a brad.

That's it! You can also make this a 7 or 8 petal flower if you like a more crowded petal look. Enjoy! Easier 9 Petal Flower Variation Here is a variation of the folded flower from my last post (right side). I was bored watching the kids ride their bikes so I grabbed the leftover paper from my tutorial and made up my own variation. Finally something I can take credit for, LOL and this one is actually easier!

Step 1: Punch out 9 circles and fold them in half with the petal pattern on the outside this time.

Step 3: Fold back top edge of the circle to create the double bloom. Again make sure all your semi-circles are facing the same way when doing this.

Step 4: Ink the edges and glue the petals as in the previous flower, the bottom to the back of another petal until all are added. That's it!

Note: These flowers also work with ovals, you just need a few more petals and it has a "spikier look".

To get started you'll need 7-8 short craft feathers, one medium and one large punched paper flower (any die cut with separated petals will do), tweezers, water for misting (or color mist instead of inking the edges) and glue. My flowers are 2 and 3 inches for these. You'll also need a brad or decorative center of choice.

Step 1: As with most of my flowers, ink the edges and then slightly water mist. Using your tweezers, twist and push the petals towards the middle then give it a slight pinch into place. Let completely dry.

Step 2: Slightly unravel the petals of your flowers and glue feathers in the petal separations of the larger flower. Let dry.

Step 3: Glue the medium flower onto the large feathered flower and then also glue a few feathers to fill in blank spots. Let dry.

Finally, add your brad or decorative center and you're done!

First, assemble your supplies:

Glimmer Mist Lace (12) Flower centers, gems, or pearls Heat tool Paintbrush or rub-on tool Super-High Tack Tape, Fabri-tac or similar adhesive Scallop ruler or 1 circle template 2 flower templete or die-cut Ready? Ok, here we go. This should only take about 15 minutes and is tested to withstand clingy two-year olds. 1. Use your scallop ruler and flower template to trace a 12 strip and flower. Other options include die-cutting or free-handing these shapes.

2. Cut them out (or die cut). Here is what you should have:

(The flower can vary a little, but should average 2 inches.) 3. Fold the scalloped strip with diagonal fold so that it starts to curve into a flower. You should have one fold between each scallop.

4. Attach the ends using the tape or your favorite high-tack adhesive. Trim as needed to complete the final scallop.

5. Choose your desired mist color(s) and spray your bottom flower throughly. It should be fairly wet. It is optional to spray the back, depending on the look you want for your petals. 6. Using the end of a paint brush, rub-on tool or any other narrow instrument, curl up the edges of your flower petals.

7. Using your heat tool, dry your flower. This will both set the pleating and the curl, and stiffen your flower.

8. Repeat the misting and curling steps with your smaller flower. 9. Before drying your smaller flower, pinch the center a little to add texture and dimension. Then dry and set with your heat tool.

10. Please some high-tack tape or Fabri-tac on the back of your smaller flower. Then apply your lace, gently pleating it to conform to the circular shape.

11. Using more high-tack tape or your favorite adhesive, attach the smaller flower to the larger one. 12. Add flower center or embellish as desired.

No-Sew Burlap & Lace Flowers

Burlap and lace make the perfect combination of rustic and refined! I made these No-sew burlap & lace flowers using a glue gun. They are easy to make, and you can use them to embellish a wide variety of things! Mason jars, wreaths, headbands, let your imagination run wild! What you need: Burlap Lace Glue Gun Scissors Small pearls or other beads Step 1: Cut a 3 circle & a 2 circle out of burlap. (Doesnt have to be exact, I just eyeballed it) Step 2: Cut a 1 circle out of lace.

Step 3:

Glue the 2 circle to the 3 circle, and finish with the lace 1 circle. Make a drop of glue in the center and embellish with pearls or beads.

Burlap and Lace Flowers

So to get started, I just cut some petal shaped pieces out of the yellow lace.

Then I put a dab of hot glue in the center and pinched it together.

I did the same to all three pieces and glued them together.

Next I cut a little flower shape out of burlap and pinched it together with hot glue. That keeps your flower from being too one-dimensional. Working with burlap makes a mess as you can see on my tablecloth. I made something else with the white burlap, but its not quite finished so Ill show it another day.

To make the center of the flower, I cut a rough circle out of the fabric I painted yellow. I just hot-glued the fabric to the metal covered button.

The 2 parts were put together and

Voila! A burlap and lace flower!

I made 8 of the flowers yesterday afternoon. Each one is unique because I used different materials on each one.

Vintage Inspired Layered Lace Flowers

Don't you just love the vintage look? I adore all things antique, lacy and lovely; this flower I'm going to show you how to make is all of those things! You'll see why I love it so much! Simply beautiful and the uses for it are endless! Add a pin and make it into a corsage, add it to your handbag or a cushion, make a whole lot of them and make them into a decorative floral display for the coffee table, or just pop it on a headband for a lovely wedding hair piece!

What you will need: 3 x 1/2 metre long lengths of lace Needle and thread Button for centre Some plastic pearl beads Glue gun Lay each piece of lace on top of the other with the straight edges aligned (And excuse my lack of lovely fingernails!)

Take your need and thread and do a running stitch along the straight edge, gently tugging the thread as you go so that the lace gathers.

Continue all the way to the end of the lace length, continually tugging to gather the lace. Pull the thread tightly and stitch the two ends closed to complete your flower. Pop a knot on the back of the flower to hold the stitching.

Glue your button in the centre of the flower

Glue your pearl beads around the outside edge of your centre button and you're done!

Lace Flower Tutorial

Yards, and yards, and yards of lace, with a light weight fabric lining between layers.

supplies for one flower: approx 30" lace or fabric & 30" netting, tulle etc. You will need two layers of the lace, and two layers of the netting. scissors needle & thread jewelry or button measurement for each layer is 15x 2 1/2" 4 layers total picture 1

Fold 15" piece into 5ths. (approx 2 1/2" long) picture. 2

cut a rounded shape across the top. (leave about 1" not cut at each side). The strip will look like the one in picture with the 'scallops'. (finished cut piece) 3

Gather straight edge of fabric with double thread on needle. (I did about 1/4" running stitches, about 1/4" from bottom). This does not have to at all perfect! 4

Pull tight.

Sew together where they meet.

Kind of 'fan' it out evenly. Then do a few stitches across both ways to secure it.

This picture is a layer of lace and a layer of netting. 2 layers. You will need 4 layers altogether.

Stack the 4 layers on top of each other. You can alternate lace and netting, or put two netting in middle. Just play with it. Sew through all 4 layers. (you can also add a 5th layer. 5 layers would take 45" of both fabrics) Add a piece of jewelry or a button in the middle, and "fluff". Here is one finished with a vintage earring in the middle.

Here is one,out of a silky material. (not finished) I tried burning the edges of this one, but I did not like how it turned out black. Might work well on darker colors. finished silky flower.

Fabric Flower Tutorial

Last week when we were done making all of our fabric flowers I said, "I should have taken tutorial pictures." And then I said, "Let's hurry and take some tutorial pictures." So even though my house and the 9 kids in it were a mess, and we were running late for our much needed date night, we decided to hurry and snap some pictures. So thanks to my sister Angela for doing the dirty work while I snapped some photos.

Hopefully this will help you figure out how to make fabric flowers of your own, here goes. First you'll need five coordinating (or the same) circles of fabric. I used a few lids from my spice cabinet to trace out circular templates of various sizes. I traced them onto an old cutting mat (you know it's a plastic flexible cutting board for food and stuff), but you could just as easily make a template out of an old sour cream container lid or something. You want a piece of plastic that's cutable, but somewhat durable. I just hold this onto my fabric and cut around it. This eliminates the need to trace onto your fabric, and it also eliminates pen or marker markings on your fabric. So don't even bother tracing, just hold the template on and use some good fabric scissors. When you use cotton quilting fabric you can do at least 3 layers at a time, and then your circles are cut really quickly. You'll need at least 5 circles, I sometimes used 6, or you could layer more, but five is plenty and looks cute. You also need one circle made of felt, this is the bottom stabilizing layer. Then you'll need a needle and thread. Tie a knot at the end of your thread.

Now you'll need to stick the needle through the bottom of your felt circle until you thread is stopped by the knot you've tied.

Now take one of your cotton fabric circles and fold it in half.

Then fold it almost in half again, like this.

Now hold that onto your felt circle and stick the needle through it and your felt circle, and then back down through the layers again. (I usually repeated this so I'd have two stitches, but one is probably fine, I just like to make sure it's stable).

Now add another circle the same way. This time you'll want it to overlap just a bit on the circle you did before.

Repeat this step until you've used all of your cotton circles and your felt circle is entirely covered.

Once your felt circle is covered and you've got a cute little fabric flower you could stop here by adding a few stitches. But I like embellishment, so we were adding some beads.

Simply thread your needle up through the bead, and then down through all of the layers again.

Once you're done pull the needle and thread tight to make sure your bead is stabilized, and on the back side make 3-5 stitches or so to finish this off. Or I guess you could tie some knots, but I think just repeating the stitch through the flannel a bunch of times will hold it just fine. Then cut your threads and use your hot glue gun to add a barrette, clip, or pin for a broach.

So I embellished these gold and silver headbands with some cute fabric flowers that I had made. I followed the steps in this tutorial to make them. But what I think makes these extra cute is that I added some tulle flowers and beads to embellish. I made the tulle flowers the same way as the regular fabric ones by cutting tulle circles, folding them in half, and then in half again and hand sewing them onto a felt circle that was the same size as my tulle circles. Like this.

And of course I have to have a little bling, so I sewed on these sparkly crystal beads. Then I took my tulle flower and another fabric flower and sewed them onto a peanut shaped piece of felt that I then hot glued onto my headband. I used a matching piece of peanut shaped felt and hot glued it from underneath the headband to secure the flowers and give a soft spot that rests on your head when you're wearing the headband. Does that make any sense? Here's some pictures. Fabric Flower Hair Pin Tutorial

I am in love with wearing flowers of all kinds in my hair this spring. Fabric flowers are beautiful, long lasting, eco-friendly and extremely easy to make yourself! You probably have most of the necessary materials already, but craft stores or beauty stores should have the rest. I used a piece of scrap orchid purple silk left over from this dress reconstruction, but any fabric will do. Be aware that some fabrics will fray a bit and it is completely up to you if you're into that sort of thing (I am!). When I first attempted to create a fabric flower, I freehanded the outline on a piece of card stock paper but Alex was awesome enough to create a printable flower stencil for this tutorial! The stencil may be adjusted on the computer to make any size flower you choose, so feel free to play with it! The whole process takes less than twenty minutes, and even less once you've done it a few times. Have fun and get ready to feel super crafty and cute in your fabric flower hair pin!

You will need: -scrap fabric (about 10" x 5") -flower outline; sized, printed, and cut out (I sized mine at 2.5" x 2.5" but Alex made this outline so you could size it however you like on the computer. Thanks, Alex!) -glue gun -a thin foam sheet (i got mine for under a dollar at Michael's) -a bobby pin with pad (found these in the bridal section of Michael's for $1.99) -scissors -fabric marking pen

Step 1 - The Cutting: Trace 5 flowers onto scrap fabric. Cut out carefully, but don't stress if you mess up a little. Cut out a small 2" x 1" rectangle from the same fabric to use as the center of the flower. Cut out a small .5" circle from the foam. Cut out an identical .5" circle from the fabric. Since we don't have a stencil for the rectangle or foam circle, just freehand it onto the material.

Step 2 - The Petals: Place a tiny drop of glue onto the center of only 4 of the 5 cut out flowers (fig. a) and fold in half, pressing lightly (fig. b). Fold each flower in half again and place a droplet of glue between each side (fig. c). Step 3 - The Center: Okay, now take the 2" x 1" rectangle of fabric and hold it in half lengthwise. Place a small drop of glue at innermost end, roll it together, and secure in place with another drop of glue (fig. d). Then, take the fifth cut out flower, fold it in half, and place a drop of glue on the end. Set the rolled up rectangle on the glue and roll the cut out flower around it, secure with more glue (fig. e). This should make a neat little center piece to attach the petals to (fig. f).

Step 4 - Putting it all together: Put a drop of glue at bottom point of each folded petal (fig. 1). Then, press each petal around the centerpiece (fig. 2) so they are all firmly glued in place (fig. 3). Glue the foam circle piece to the fabric circle piece (fig. 4). Glue the foam circle fabric side up to the base of the flower (fig. 5). Place a drop of glue on the pad of the bobby pin (fig. 6) and press foam circle to pad. Voila!

DIY fabric flowers by Michonne

Michonnes inspiration came from Emerson Mades line of lovely fabric flower accessories. Youve seen them around the blogs right? They are sooooo pretty. Tools: Craft needles Fabric (100% cotton and tulle, cut into the shape of petals) Scissors Thread (She used a darker thread for the tutorial so you can easily see the stitches)

Now were going to let Michonne do the explaining since shes the expert here: A few notes before you get started: Take the small/bottom part of the petal and make a small overlapping fold. By adjusting just how deep the overlap is, this will adjust how dramatic of an angle the petals will have. When I start out, my initial petals are very perky and stand nearly straight up. I like to thread my needle with both ends of the thread. This gives a sturdy stitch (two threads thick) AND it creates a loop at the end to thread through for anchoring instead of having to knot which creates bulk and frustration in tiny projects. Sewing on the first petal. Dont be afraid of stitching at this phase. The inner ring of petals needs to be relatively sturdy. The structure of the flower is dependent on these stitches, if they are loose, the flower will be floppy and look weird. Besides the stitches are easy to cover up later. Sew on second petal making sure to overlap neighboring petals. Sew on third petal, I add petals to the left of the previous petal (either direction is fine, this just works best for me) making sure that each petal overlaps the previous petal. By the fifth petal, the first row of petals should be approaching a full circle depending on how large of a a flower is being made. I do not like to make the center too small because it gets hard to work around when adding the outer petals.

After the center row of petals is firmly attached, start adding petals to the outside. Place the newest petal on the backside of the flower where the the previous rows petals overlap. I find that the spiral-wise additions keep the flower round. Its ok to add extra petals wherever they look needed. Sometimes the flower will look lop-sided because certain petals are closer together than others. To add dimension and fullness quickly, use two different fabrics in the same petal. Place them on top of each other (displaced slightly mother nature isnt perfect) and then fold the bottom, eyeball for placement, and sew into place. For the center of the flower (to cover up all that stitching) Take one or two fabric circles and fold them in half and then in half again (youll end up with basically a quarter of a circle). I like to use the same colored fabric + tulle. Then sew the final fold together making sure to incorporate each fabric. The stitches will end up on the underside, so it does not have to be beautiful.

Then with another circle, just place it inside the center of the flower, covering up the stitches. I kind of twist the center. At this point I use a hot glue gun for covering up my stitching.

And then after many late nights of folding and sewing and gluing, you end up with an entire army of beautiful fabric flowers. So worth it!

Coffee Filter Flower {bridal shower decor}

I am busy working on decorating for my brothers fiances bridal shower on Saturday, and Im having so much fun! Youll have to wait to see the rest of it, but I couldnt wait to share this project with you!

We wanted to fill the space above my parents fireplace with something pretty, because in front of the fireplace is the present opening spot. I couldnt figure out what to make, and then I was inspired by this pin. I have no idea how they made those flowers, and there was no tutorial to be found. So I decided to try to make my own! I needed something to anchor coffee filters, and I thought a hula hoop would be the perfect size. I bought one from Target (less than $2). I also bought lots of coffee filters and had my husband and my cousin flatten each of them individually for me (thanks guys!)

I attached the coffee filters to the hula hoop with a low-temp hot glue gun, overlapping each of them slightly.

Then I simply spiraled the coffee filters in towards the middle, hot gluing each coffee filter to the layer behind it, until it looked like this:

Now I needed to figure out something for the center. I didnt want it to be another color, but I didnt want pure white either. I decided to make a big rosette like I did for my bathroom dcor out of some lace from my husbands grandmother. I just hot glued it right onto another coffee filter, and trimmed the edges once it was the size I wanted.

Then I hot-glued it to the center of my coffee filter flower:

I hung it with a command hook so we didnt damage the surface we were hanging it from, centered it, and stepped back to enjoy the finished product!