That's why I've been playing around with making a flowers out of craft supplies that can stick around a little longer than their live counterparts. Let's start craftin'!
I used a crepe filter paper to cut out flower shapes with the Floral Frames Framelits and Fun Flowers Bigz L die with my Big Shot. After pulling these apart (because the cutting of the paper tends to smoosh all the edges together), I set to dying my newly cut flowers.
I chose Primrose Petals, Soft Sky, and Daffodil Delight colors for my flowers. Covering my work surface with paper (I used butchers paper since I have a big roll), I set to spraying the flowers using a mixture of rubbing alcohol and about 10 drops of ink refill in a stampin' spritzer bottle. Some of the flowers I sprayed twice to get a deeper color, while I was a bit more reserved with my spritzing on others. Then, I transfered the flowers to clean paper to dry.
The flowers will curl up a bit as the dry, so after they dried, I ironed the flowers on very low heat. They looked great when I was finished!
Now for assembly. I pulled out my handy dandy silicone mat and glue gun to create the flowers. I started by laying out one of the flower pieces on the mat and then added a dab of hot glue to the center. Then, I laid another piece on top, making sure the petal ends were moved over to the gaps in the previous flower's petals. Stack as many as you wish for your flower (most of mine are about 5 or so petals together).
Now we will employ what I call the Squishing Technique (fancy, huh?). I picked up the flower and separated the first 3 or so petals from the bottom three. Then, I pulled them together, essentially squishing the top petals towards each other. The result is a flower that has a fluffy and life like effect while keeping the few bottom petals stable for a base to your flower.
After squishing all of your flowers, we need to make a center for each. Yay for the wonderful Sale-a-bration Sweet Sorbet accessory pack and the great twine that came with it. That made great centers!
I cut a length of the Summer Starfruit twine and doubled it over, continuing to do so until I had a little stack of twine.
Then, I cut my stack of twine in half and stuck one end in a pool of hot glue on my silicone mat.
After this dried and I made sure all the ends were nice and stuck in the glue (basically, I gave it a tug to make sure everything was glued in) I trimmed off the ends with my scissors. Then, I started to untwist the twine so it would fray. The result was a convinced little center to each of my flowers!
For the final step, I hot glued each flower center to the middle of my flowers.
Want to see what I made with all my flowers? Stay tuned for my next blog post!
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