I am busy getting ready to leave for Atlanta. Oh, I am really looking forward to this trip. I am always grateful when I get to travel with a friend. I love knowing that I am making new friends and seeing old friends during my trip. I just love my southern friends. I feel at HOME. I can't explain it, but it just is what my "soul" needs. My sweet husband and boys had a special event planned that will keep them very busy. I love knowing that they are doing father/sons time while I am away. I am pretty excited to do a mini book make n take with my new IMAGINE images on Friday. EXCITED...I hope everyone will list what they see in my "little" sneak peek of what is coming!!!!
I have been having a lot of fun with the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge by Provo Craft. It is the PERFECT cartridge if you are a FLOWER lover. I created a fun project for the CREATING KEEPSAKES blog post for today-
I created the flower with my NEW 12x12 metallic REFLECTIVE paper- I added TC BLINGAGE to the center of my flower.
You can see step by step visuals and instructions on how I created both the reflective and glitter flowers at Creative Keepsakes blog. I am their special guest blogger today!
Thanks CK for the huge support!!!!
Today I wanted to show you another flower tutorial by one of my talented design team members. Amanda Jones created a BOUQUET of POSH flowers.
Amanda Jones Tutorial- flowers
For each flower you will need 3 die cut flower shapes. It is not important what style of flower as long as they have 6 petals.
Now you need to cut your flowers. Cut between 2 of the petals on your first flower, just into the centre, so that the flower is still whole but you have a slit between 2 of the petals. Cut 1 petal away from the second flower, again cutting between the petals into the centre of the flower. centre of each as shown above left. You should end up with 2 pieces – 1 petal and 5 petals.
With the third flower shape you need to remove 2 petals, leaving you with 2 petals and 4 petals.
You should now have 5 pieces. It’s time to start sticking!
This is the tricky bit... take the single petal and add a tiny amount of glue to one edge. Curl the paper round and stick it to form a cone shape, as shown in the picture. You might find tweezers handy at this point!
Repeat this step with the 2 petal piece.
The 3 larger pieces can be adhered in the same way, but this time you need to add glue over the whole of one petal, so that the 2 petals closest to where you made your original cuts can be completely overlapped. You should end up with 3 cones, increasing in width.
Now it’s time to assemble your flower. Take the smallest cone and put a dab of glue on the tip. Insert it into the next biggest cone as shown in the picture above. You may find it easier to snip the ends off of your cones at this stage, so you can slide them in a bit further to make your flower sturdier.
Increasing in size, keep gluing and sticking until you end up with a flower that looks something like this one!
To decorate my candle holder I made flowers in 2 different sizes. I simply lined the inside of the holder with coordinating paper and then randomly glued the flowers into the top using a hot glue gun. Finally, I hand-cut some leaves from black cardstock and glued them on to fill any gaps between flowers.
These flowers are so beautiful. THANK YOU Amanda for sharing this INSPIRING project with us!!!! Doesn't it make you want to create your own bouquet?????
Have a GREAT Wednesday!!!!!
