Well everyone, this is my first tutorial!! Today we will be making 2 kinds of flowers, the Heart-Punch Flower, and the Carnation. I can't tell you where I got the idea for the Heart-Punch Flower, but the Carnation I saw on a blog while I was hopping around online, but I cannot find where it was!
To make the Heart-Punch Flower, you will need a Heart shaped punch (I used one that is 3/4" at the widest point), scrap paper, ink and sponge for distressing the edges and a brad of your choice, preferably one that matches or contrasts nicely with your paper.
Punch out 7 hearts from your scrap paper.
Sponging the edges of your hearts is completely optional, but I think it gives it a better look, a little more depth and dimension.
Put your adhesive on one half only of all 7 of your hearts. It doesn't matter if you put the adhesive on the left half or the right half, but you must chose the same half for all 7 hearts. To begin putting them together, lay one heart on top of the half with adhesive.
Continue to do this until you have only 1 heart left.
To add the last heart, you need to place it in sideways, and then pivot it so that one half of it is on top, and the other half is underneath.
Now add your brad to the center
and pop dots to the back
Voila!
Here are 2 that I have done previously and used on a layout.
The next flower we will be making today is the Carnation.
To make this flower, you will need paper of your choice (I used both the Colonial White Cardstock and Sunshine Yellow Cardstock), a 2" scalloped circle punch, ink and sponge to color your edges, a brad (this brad will not be seen so it doesn't have to match), a spray bottle of water and a paper piercer.
From your cardstock, punch out 8 cirles.
Using your ink of choice, sponge the edges of each circle.
Lay circles out on a dishtowel or papertowels, and spray liberally with water. The circles will curl up a bit. Don't be worried, that is supposed to happen.
Now take each wet circle and crumple it up.
Remembering that these are wet and will rip easily, take care when you open them up, and stack them on top of eachother.
Take your paper piercer and pierce a hole through all of your "Petals",
and insert your brad.
Taking the top petal, pull it up and crumple around your brad, pinching the bottom near the brad. *REMEMBER that this paper is wet, and if you are to forceful, it will rip right off your brad*
Follow this same step with each petal until all petals are scraunched up around the brad.
Then take your fingers and fluff your flower up until you are happy with how it looks.
I have not yet added this flower to a project, but I will do so soon and will post my finished product. To stick this flower down, I would use either a popdot or a really good adhesive like Liquid Glass from Close To My Heart. Add a few leaves, etc., and this could easily be on a card that goes into a shadowbox.
My thanks go out to whoever's blog I visited, but can no longer find, and to my daughter Edith who took pictures for me while my hands were inky in use!
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