Dies R Us: Flowers

Happy Wednesday, friends!

It's Nancy, from The Nickel Nook, to share a quick and easy flower tutorial!
I've used the Sizzix Tim Holtz - Small Tattered Florals die for my samples.
They were in stock when I began this project,
but I see now that they're out of stock.
These ideas will work well with many other flower dies too.

I like to cut multiples of these, and put them together in front of the tv.

I also like to make them from white cardstock.

Since I don't have a specific project in mind,

I'm not sure what color I will need.

Making them all white gives me any option of color,

with inking, spraying, or painting.

For the first flower, I cut two each of the three largest flowers.

I spritz them with a little bit of water,

and then roll them up into tight little buds.

Then I set them aside to dry completely.

Once they're dry, I carefully open the flowers out.

Then I use liquid glue to adhere the petals together,

from largest to smallest, off-setting the petals.

As you can see in the photo of my finished flower,

I actually re-rolled the final die-cut layer before adhering it into the center of the flower.

This flower has lovely texture and dimension.

It's ready to be sprayed any color.

It also looks really pretty with just the tips all inked up.

For my second flower sample,

I die-cut two each of a large, a medium, and a small.

I then use my stylus and my foam pad to shape the flowers.

First, I lay it face side down on the foam,

and run the stylus over the back of each petal.

Then I turn the flower over,

and apply pressure to the center of the flower with the stylus.

This gives each flower petal a lovely shape.

Then I adhere my flowers together with wet glue,

from largest to smallest, off-setting the petals.

I decided that I wanted to use just one of each size for this flower.

So the layers I cut made two complete flowers.

These still have wonderful texture but not as much bulk as the first sample.

Again, they're ready to be colored any way you want.

This flower also offers a lovely center to add a pearl, rhinestone, or bead.

There you have it...two different quick and easy flowers.
Great to have on-hand for whenever you need a flower.

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Sizzix Tim Holtz - Small Tattered Florals

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Hi everyone! Monica from HeartcraftPaper here and I'm so glad you could make it back to visit the blog. Today I have a wonderful spring inspired card. The image that gave me the idea for this card is Lena, Floral Wreath, which can be found at the sister store Didi Crafts. I loved all the flowers in her hair and felt that roses would be my theme.

It was such a lovely image, but delicate and small so I wanted it to really pop! Literally! I wanted a rose, something to make it interactive and a statement piece. So I found three dies that would set my image apart.

Supplies:

Lena, Floral Wreath

Dies: Rose

Memory Box: Fine Cut Leaves

Lawn Fawn: Pivot Pop-up Dies

Lawn Fawn: Stitched Speech Bubble Frames Dies

Lawn Fawn: Scalloped Rectangle Stackables

A2 Card Base

Anna Griffin Rose Medley Paper Pack

Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

Black Cardstock

Fuchsia Cardstock

Green Cardstock

Liquid Glue

Zig 2 Way Glue Pen

Scissors

Double Sided Tape

Pencil

Let's Get Crafty!

Color Theme: Reds, Fuchsia, Green & Black

Start with your coloring.

Skin: E0000, E00, E02, E11, E93

Lips: R32

Flowers: YR18, R14, R29, YG63

Dress: C2, C4, C6, C8, C10

Trim/Boots: R14, R37

Start building up your card.

You will need to die cut your flowers first. Use the Cheapo Die: Rose, as well as black and fuchsia cardstock for this. First die cut the rose outline out in black (7x's). Then place the die cutting side down on the fuchsia cardstock and trace all around.

Now that you have your guide for the rose all penciled in adhere the black outline inside of the tracing. You will then cut all along the outside of the black outline. I would have used a quilting technique, but this particular dies has lines that do not fully close the image.

With the roses done, cut out your leaves. I did two for each flower, so a total of 14.

Let's begin working on the sentiment. For this cut out a 1/2" strip of white cardstock. I stamped out my sentiment using individual wood block letter stamps I had found for $1. I stamped out, "A Note To Say..." and made a fishtail banner at the and. I then crumpled up the banner some and used Vintage Photo Distress Ink to give the paper more of an aged and distressed look.

Now you will begin to assemble the background to the cover. I chose a wonderful rose pattern that really fit my concept. Using Lawn Fawn's Scalloped Rectangle Stackable Dies I die cut black cardstock (4 x 5 1/4") and the floral print (3 9/16 x 4 3/4"). Next adhere the floral print to the black background using double sided foam tape and set aside for later.

For the sentiment I decided on a speech bubble because the stamped image gave me that feel of a young lady raising her hand and waving and saying, "Hi!" I began by die cutting out the speech bubble in white cardstock and the "hi" in black. Then embossed the speech bubble with a polkadot pattern. Using a glue pen adhere the sentiment to the bubble.

Now your ready to die cut the pivot pop-up mechanism. I used craft card for the base (1) and a beautiful foil polkadot paper (2) that i feel works well with florals.

You will fold away from you in a mountain fold. Next you will fold the diagonals away from you (valley fold). This will create a frog like image.

The cut has a hole at the center that allows you to align the fold of the cut along the fold of the card. I maintained in placed and folded down one side to add glue onto the triangular section and repeated it by folding upwards on the other side.

Using double sided tape add to both pieces along the little tab. alight the tabs so that one is at the top and the other at the bottom and attache. Once attached you will fold in the middle away from you and the two sides towards you.

Align the pop-up base in the center by using the hole in the mechanism as a guide. Then fold in the sides to reveal the two tabs you will apply glue away from the fold. Allow to dry.

While the glue is drying on the inside you can work to apply your card background on the front using liquid glue or if you prefer, double sided tape.

Using one of the flowers created earlier you will adhere a set of leaves to it along the right side.

This is how it should appear once complete.

Adhere the rose by using foam tape on the back. Make sure to use enough to add support across the whole back of the rose.

Now we need to add the sentiment. I used foam tape on the back of the sentiment and glue on a portion that was placed over the rose, to attach. I adorned using a larger pearl dot.

Almost done! All that needs to be done now is the arrange and glue down the decorations inside. I fussy cut my image first.

I arranged my items before gluing down. This way I have an idea as to where I want everything to go.

Now it's time to start gluing down my items. I avoided setting any items over the folded sections and I opened and closed the card to make sure I arranged the flowers in a way that it would not peek out over the edge of the card when closed. I also added some flowers to the background so that the inside looks like one big bouquet.

In the end this is what it will look like, both open and closed.

Thank you all for visiting the blog and we hope to see you back again!

XOXO - Monica

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