Flower Making Tutorial

I have been asked by several people to do

a tutorial on how I make my flowers.

So here we go !!! I thought I'd show you how I made

the Leaves and flowers in the card above

Please bear with me it is very photo heavy !!!

I used the Majestic Morning Flower Stamp and die,

The Open Leaf stamp set and Classic Leaf die

from Heartfelt Creations. 

   

First of all we need to make a mask of the die. 

Take a piece of card and tape the die to it

using a low tack tape. 

Run this through your die cutting machine.

Remove the flowers and you will have this attached 

to your die. DO NOT remove it.

Now take another piece of card.

 I use a lightweight card, sadly it isn't weighted

but the heavier you use the harder it is to shape.

And the lighter it is the easier it is to tear when shaping !!! 

The Heartfelt Creations paper pads do

make fantastic flowers ! 

Stamp the image onto the card.

Take your die and mask and lay the mask over the stamped image.

Line it up so that the die will cut exactly around the image.

Adhere the mask and die down to the image with low tack tape 

so that the mask doesn't move.

Run this through your die cutting machine.

It will cut the flowers out like below.

Now take your flowers and colour them up.

First of all I go over the centres applying

a light colouring using ink.

I then apply heavier ink around the edges to give a shading.

When all your flowers are coloured they need to be shaped.

Take your shaping tool and mat.

Turn the flower so the back is facing upwards and

in a gently circular motion shape each petal.

The flower will curl upwards.

When you have shaped all the petals,

turn the flower over so the inked side faces up.

Using a circular motion shape the centre of the flower.

This allows the petals to come upwards whilst still

curving outwards.

Now heat up your glue gun and with hot glue 

fill the centre of your flower.

Pour beads onto the Hot glue while still hot !

And leave to dry. Remove any excess beads.

I use a tray to do this part with so that the beads

don't go everywhere !

Now using glitter glue,

Glitter the edges of the flowers.

Now for the leaves ..........

Use the same process to make a mask and cut out a stamped image.

Again using ink, colour very lightly over the die cut.

Now using heavier ink, just colour the edges of the leaves.

Your fingers get very messy !!!

To shape the leaves lay the leaf down so the white side

is face up. Using gentle circular motions

shape each leaf so that they curl up.

Now turn the leaf over and gently smooth along the 

stalk of the leaf so that the whole leaf lays flat

with each leaf still curved.

And there you have it !

All you then need to do is adhere 

your flowers and leaves to your project !

Here is the card from the beginning to remind you !

Hope that helped.

Happy Crafting !