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Please help - I can't keep the accordian flower "closed". I have used mono, glue dots and the flower keeps coming apart or "opening". What adhesive works best? Thanks - Sam
i use FabriTac, just a tiny bit... then i would try holding it closed with a 'spring-mounted' clothes-pin. the pin (or a binder clip) would allow the glue to dry all the way... kind of like a vice holds wood so glue bonds on it. (i took some Construction in college)
-laura s
I could not make the accordian flower change from a loop of paper to a flower-shaped circle.... It seemed as if it was too short, but surely 12-inch paper strip is the longest anyone would use.....?? Any suggestions?
I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about, but when I made tissue flowers we always stapled the middle. Then, when the flower was opened up the staple never showed.
I held mine together gently and used a glue dot on the front and back to hold it together....I made about ten and put them on my desk around the top and it looks like a flower garden. I hope you can make this work...they are so cute.... I put little buttons on mine so it covers up the front glue dot and it's soooooo sweet..... Good luck.
I also had good luck with big thick craft glue dots. I pressed one to the front and one to the back and the thicker dot kind of went down into the grooves and held together really well. I also used my crimper rather than scoring every 1/4 inch and it worked great. I folded back and forth at every other crimp -- what a timesaver!
I fought and fought with my accordion flower. I finally punched a 3/4" circle (two of them) and holding the flower together in the center, I applied some PVA glue, still holding it together for a moment - then applying the 3/4" circle punch on top of that - acting as a flower center. I did this to both sides of my flower. WOW...I thought I would never get that thing to stick together...lol
I also had good luck with big thick craft glue dots. I pressed one to the front and one to the back and the thicker dot kind of went down into the grooves and held together really well. I also used my crimper rather than scoring every 1/4 inch and it worked great. I folded back and forth at every other crimp -- what a timesaver!
Let me see if I can better articulate the problem I am having...
I cut the 1X12 piece of DS (no problem), scored it every 1 inch and folded it into mountains and valleys (again, NP). Stuck the ends together (thanx to all the tips in this thread, that was no problem either).
Now comes the problem... when I try to "fan" it out with one edge making the larger outer circle, and one edge making the smaller inner circle, I cannot get it to lay flat....
Let me see if I can better articulate the problem I am having...
I cut the 1X12 piece of DS (no problem), scored it every 1 inch and folded it into mountains and valleys (again, NP). Stuck the ends together (thanx to all the tips in this thread, that was no problem either).
Now comes the problem... when I try to "fan" it out with one edge making the larger outer circle, and one edge making the smaller inner circle, I cannot get it to lay flat....
???
From reading the previous post about using the crimper (I haven't made these and I don't have the directions, but I'm a highly-skilled paper-fan artiste ), it looks like the accordian folds should be scored at 1/4" instead of 1" - that should make it go around in a circle AND lay flat.
From reading the previous post about using the crimper (I haven't made these and I don't have the directions, but I'm a highly-skilled paper-fan artiste ), it looks like the accordian folds should be scored at 1/4" instead of 1" - that should make it go around in a circle AND lay flat.
Yes, indeed, that's the case. When my SU demo showed us how to make them, she said to score every 1/4 inch. That's 36 scores on a 12 inch sheet -- what a pain! But I think that it's that small score that makes it take the correct shape when you pop out the outside edge to make it lay flat. They are so darn cute when they are done!
Help! Accordian flower
same here!
