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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Blissful Blooms Tutorial

Happy Saturday everyone! I thought I would put together a quick tute on the one of the flowers I had on the Friday post for SOUS, Heavenly Delight.
I used my Home Decor cart and cut the 6 petal flower from the shadow shift feature @ 4 inches. The flower is really only about 1 1/2 inches but because this is actually a flower center I had to cut it at a larger size. Any six petal cut will work, you may even have a simple punch. You will need two flowers in the same size to create this bloom.
First, you will cut a slit in one layer, overlap the petals and glue. Next, using a a skewer curl all the petals under.
Then simply glue the two layers together. This will create a six petal bottom with a 5 petal top....Now another version.....
For this version you will slit one layer and then cut one petal from the second layer, overlap each and glue....You can see the cut layers along with the glued layers here.
Once again you will simply glue the two layers together. This will create a bloom with a 5 petal bottom and a 4 petal top.
Now lets add a little fun.....Choose a chalk in a similar color or a contrasting color to add some shading to the center of each layer.
I used some store bought stamen and a floral pic to create my centers.
What ever you decide to use will be glued to the center of the flower.....I like mixing it up bit so I added different types of centers to create some different looks.
Finally, I added some stickles in a variety of patterns to all of my blooms. I found that making several of these at a time really is the best way to create a little stash of flowers....but you know me....I'll probably end up using them all on one layout...LOL!
Hope this little tutorial was inspiring to you....have a great weekend!

16 comments:

  1. I love your flowers! Can't wait to give them a try! Now off to see the rest of your blog!

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  2. Beautiful flowers and a great tutorial. Thanks!
    Kristina

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  3. Oh my goodness, Sandy - these are the most creative and the most gorgeous ever. I do adore them to pieces! Thank you for taking the time to do this tute for us. I am such a flower person; I will have to add this to my stuff! Thank you so much girlfriend! ;D

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  4. Thank you so much for showing us how to make these beautiful flowers they are so beautiful!

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  5. Oh thanks for the tut! I've been way too lazy to look for a 6 petal flower on the carts. Love these! xxD

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  6. Sandy, these are great! I can't wait to try them! Thanks for the tutorial!

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  7. It looks like Spring!!!! Beautiful little blooms!! TFS...

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  8. Sandy... you are the queen of flowers and these are beautiful!! Thanks for showing us how it is done, because no matter how hard I try... mine never come close to yours!! But... I am willing to try again!!

    And thanks for the sweet comments you left on my blog... and I'm with you... sooooo ready for school to be out so I can start having fun with my scrappy stuff!!
    Barb :)

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  9. oh wow Sandy...Those are so super cute.. I must make some of those and soon... :O)
    hugs
    Nanné

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  10. FABULOUS tutorial Sandy! You have done a super job not only on your flowers but the tutorial as well...thanks for sharing your wonderful talents with us!

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  11. What a fantastic tutorial, Sandy, and thank you soooo much for sharing it!!! I haven't really tried to make my own flowers, but I have to give this a try!! How wonderful it would be to have the right color flower everytime!!! XXXX

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  12. I saw this tutorial saturday but I didn't have time to comment. This is a wonderful tutorial! I just love making flowers! (and I added your tute to my tute links list!) I even have some of those bundles of little white flowers! Can't wait to try these!

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  13. oh, oh, oh, I can't wait to try these!!!!!!! If I have to stay up till 3am one night I am putting this on my list to do for April! You are such a sweetie for taking the time to do a tutorial on these--thank you!

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  14. awww they are adorable!!!
    hugs
    Brenda

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  15. FAB tutorial! can't wait to try them out! thanks for sharing girl! hugs!

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  16. This tutorial is just awesome!! I think these are better then the bought ones!! Thanks so much for sharing!!

    Hugs~
    Ramona

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