Chrissie's Flowers

I have been making lots of flowers recently and it is a great way to relax and to use up papers that you may not have a use for.

Some cards I made using some of the flowers

Step One

Collect allsorts of different flower shapes and sizes. These can be punched, machine cut out, printed and cut out or cut from card magazines which often have pages of flowers as their gift in the centre pages. I have made some flower shapes which you can use if you like and will add them at the end of the tutorial. You can print them onto plain or patterned paper and colour them yourself as you wish or use the colours that I have used. If you want white flowers then use the white side of the paper.

A mixed bunch of flower shapes and lots of different colours and sizes.

Step 2. Give all the shapes some texture.

a. If you have a crimper you can run them through that as it does give a good texture and you can do that while you watch tv or just sit outside in the sunshine.

b. Use a Cuttlebug Folder that has quite a bit of pattern to give the shapes texture

c. If you don't have either of those then just scrunch up the shapes in your hand then straighten them out again

Step 3

Now sort out the shapes into flowers. Do a bit of mix and match with colours and shapes-don't stick them together yet as you may want to change your mind along the way

Step 4.

When you are happy with them then stick all the layers and make flowers. I use silicone to stick mine but you can use whatever glue you like best

Step 5

If you have an old mouse mat or flat piece of sponge then you can use that. If not use a tea towel folded or any other piece of thick material. You will also need a tool with a rounded end. I use a thin paintbrush handle but a small embossing tool would be ok. Poke this into the middle of the flowers to give them a raised shape

Leave them now until the glue is fully dried

Step 6

May be you are happy with your flowers as they are so you don't want a step 6. If you want to try some other things with them here are a few that I use

a-add a brad to the middle

b-add glitter glue to the middle

c. draw a middle with a felt tip pen

d. Stick an artificial flower in the middle

Step 7

If you would still like to add something special then you can add this effect to any of the flowers you have already made and it can look stunning

Use spray glue finely all over the flowers you want to do this step on. Then dip them lightly, face down into fairy dust or any very fine glitter.

Warning-if you use spray glue it is best to do it outside or to wear a mask if you have breathing difficulties. You could just dab stick glue to the flowers instead if you aren't sure about the spray glue.

These are the same ones as I added the felt tip centre to and they look very different with the fairy dust on them-difficult to show how lovely they look in a photograph

I am sure you have lots of ideas of your own and I would love to see what they are and add them to the tutorial with your permission.

Flower shapes for you use as you wish

Print on white paper or white side of patterned paper

Print on white side of patterned of pattern paper if you want the shapes to be patterned

Print these on white paper and use either side as you wish

All the above flowers sheets are my own designs and can be used freely