Hi everyone, it's a lovely sunny Spring like day here today.
I hope you are all having good weather too !
I made these little handmade flowers the other day when
our electricity was off due to our new gas boiler being fitted.
So lovely to have hot water and heating again now. Anyway
it was something to do while I couldn't be on my computer.
I made a few in different colours, mainly using distress inks
to colour them. You may see them in weeks to come
appearing on my cards now :)
Here is a little tutorial on how to make them as I thought
you may want to have a go yourself. They are quite fiddly but
quite easy to make really,maybe you already know how to
make them ?? I have seen a lot of tutorials on the web, but
this is just a handy reminder in case you haven't seen any.
I did get rather covered in glue and distress ink after making
them, so we warned ...it is a tad messy !!!!!
After making a few, I quite liked the sepia coloured ones best
so made more of those as you can see. The last flower was made
just using a five petal flower punch , shading with distress inks
and then scrunching & adding a few stamens...not sure about
that one !
In the tutorial I first cut a strip of thinnish card, then used my
fancy scissors on the edge of one side. I made little cuts along
the top. I then curled the small cut ends & used distress ink
along the edge and the curled bits.I used some tacky glue to
stick the flower as I rolled it up and pulled back some of the petals.
I shaped it a bit and played about with it until I was happy with it. I
used more glue on the edges and sprinkled glamour dust on top of that.
I think they will look a lot better on cards...they do look better irl too :)
ps. Can you see my two cutie pie grandsons at the top here :) Charlie's
first smile caught on camera and an updated one of my latest grandson
Alex too! I got my first pressie off Charlie too on Sunday, a mug with
monkeys on & "to my Granny from your little monkey"......don't they just
melt your heart :)
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Sorry this is blurred, just couldn't get a sharp pic of it after MANY tries argghhh!!! |
HUGS