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~ Paper Posies ~
Or roses, or pansies, or whatever you like. That's the challenge this week. Lately I have been seeing so many different amazing flowers made with punches. I have always loved the ones that Sherry Cheever (BadSherry) makes. You can see her tutorial on her blog ~ Walkin on the bad Side. I also love this crepe paper flower by Terri on the Artful Affirmations blog. I couldn't find the tutorial, but ribbon flowers are all the rage, too! If you do a search for "paper flowers" in the gallery, you will pull up lots more.
The idea is to use anything OTHER THAN a pre-made flower, Stamps or flower punch to create a flower for your card.
I couldn't believe the challenge when I read it, making flowers is my favourite thing to do. The irony of the timing is I spent hours today making 4 cards for a class I'm teaching each card using a different type of hand crafted flower. Unfortunately they didn't meet the criteria for this challenge as they were die cut flowers. I had a thought to try to create ribbon roses that look like those loose chiffon flowers used as a border on cards. Mine don't look exactly the same but I love the way they turned out and I will be sewing a whole lot more of them tomorrow. Here's mine LOVE
Just checking, with paper in the title does it have to be paper flowers? I'm just a bit confused because you mention ribbon in the body of the text.
I'll look forward to doing something with this after work - and after I get DH's birthday cake in the oven . Usually I just use a heart punch, so I'll try to ring the changes on that.
Thanks, Holly.
Just checking, with paper in the title does it have to be paper flowers? I'm just a bit confused because you mention ribbon in the body of the text.
I'll look forward to doing something with this after work - and after I get DH's birthday cake in the oven . Usually I just use a heart punch, so I'll try to ring the changes on that.
Thanks, Holly.
Yeah, I thought the title was ketchy, so I went with it, but you can definitely do ribbon flowers. Anything except a flower punch, stamp or die, ok?
This was a CHALLENGE as I don't have any of the items they used on the tutorials I read. Well, sometimes we just have to use what we have and mine is my Cricut. Not a pretty flower but...it's a flower. TLC280 Cricut flower by yo sam at Splitcoaststampers
Thank you for the challenge! I made a paper rose as in Julie William's tutatorial. I forgot to put the link in my description. I will have to go back and edit. Anyway, I already took it over to a lady friend in rehab and she loved it! So, I guess it turned out okay. Even thought it doesn't look like Julie's.
This was fun! Here's my not-paper, but ribbon flower card. My only problem was finding ribbon that was soft enough to gather. Most of my ribbon is paper-y and stiff. I'll have to dig out some lace, which should work as well.
This was a hoot to make. Thanks Holly. I hope I didn't cheat because the title was Paper Posies. I went with the "anything other than premade" clause and I had a ball. Here it is.
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TLC280 A Rose is A Rose
HERE is mine. I watched Sherrie's tutorial on the paper flowers ... I didn't have the same die that she used so I used my Nested Poinsettia dies. They didn't curl like hers did but my paper is a little thin so that may be why. Anyway, I am pleased with the outcome. I had so much fun putting this together - thanks for the challenge!
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