G'day! It's Rosey from sunny Australia, and thank you for joining us again mates - we have a fun Blog Hop for you this month!
I asked my wonderful team what they would like to learn from a crafting tutorial, and I got some interesting answers: altered projects, paper techniques and flowers. This month I decided to come up with three simple paper flowers to enhance almost any LO. Here they are, made from Echo Park's "Life is Good" collection. Aren't they pretty?
All you need is double-sided patterned paper, a pencil and ruler, scissors, brads, ink and Stickles to decorate. Oh and a litle glue.
Let's start with the
HEART-EASE which is made, appropriately enough, out of
hearts!
1) Draw your hearts onto the patterned paper. Here's a trick for drawing good hearts free-hand.
a) On your paper, draw a 2"x2" square.
b) Mark a dot in the middle of the bottom edge.
c) Mark a dot on each side and another dot in the middle 1/2" from the top, or 1/4 of the total height.
d) Now you have the references for the edges of the heart, you can join them up neatly. It doesn't have to be perfect for this.
You will need one 2" heart, two 1 1/5" hearts, and one 1" heart.
2) Tear the shapes out, ensuring that the white core of the paper shows on the good side. This is how they will be arranged.
3) Taking your 3 smallest hearts only, make snips in the bottoms and fold over to expose the other side of the paper:
4) Carefully bend each of the petals over an edge such as the blade of your scissors as shown. You want a valley fold in the centre, and a mountain fold on the wider parts.
5) You can now ink the edges, stick the petals together as shown, add a brad in the middle and Stickles, and you're finished.
OK now onto the
SPIRAL FLOWER which you might have made before using scissors. Personally I like how tearing the paper shows off the contrast of the white core.
1) Draw a rough spiral on a piece of pattered paper with a pencil. It doesn't have to be perfect. This is around 2 1/5" in diameter.
2) Tear along the pencil lines, exposing the white core on the good side. You don't have to tear all the way to the centre. If you want to ink the outer edges, now is the time to do it, before it gets fiddly.
3) Roll the paper up, beginning at the outer part. The pattern you want to show will be inner-most.
4) Arrange the coils so that they are neatly spaced out. You might also want to bend the torn edges outwards slightly. You will end up with something like this.
5) You can decorate the torn edges with ink and Stickles if you wish, and you will stick the coils down by putting liquid glue or a large glue dot in the un-torn centre part, but don't do that just yet.
Now let's make the
DAISY which also doubles as a centre for the spiral flower.
1) Cut a strip of patterned paper about 3" by 1/5". The wider the strip, the longer the petals will be.
Make little snips all along one edge, about 3/4 of the width.
2) If you want to ink the cut edges, now is the best time to do it - I forgot in this photo. Hold the paper with the good side upper-most, and bend the cut edges slightly. Now roll the strip with the good side inner-most.
3) Secure the end with a little glue, and stick a brad down the hole in the centre. Arrange the petals before bending the brad's prongs.
4) The daisy can stand alone, or you can use it as a centre for the spiral flower.
Easy eh?
And there you have it, 3 very different flowers. Feel free to experiment by playing with the sizes and dimensions. I can't wait to see what you come up with!
OK if you want to be in with a chance of winning this month's Crate Paper "Emma's Shop" Collection Pack prize here's what you have to do.
1) Create your own (probably much better!) flowers using the tutorial, and post them on your blog. Make sure your post links back to the Scrap Whispers blog so that your Followers and friends can visit us too.
2) Link us up to your blog post
HERE.
3) Hop through all the DT's blogs to check out all our creations, and leave a little love in the Comments on each blog including the Scrap Whispers blog:
Digi folks, we have a version for you too, courtesy of our brand new digi DT member, the lovely
Kimberly! Scroll down to the next post to pick up a tutorial just for you!
Finally, you will have noticed that the blog is looking a little different today. This is in preparation for some exciting changes that we're bringing in for April. Hold onto your hats folks!
