Friday, November 5, 2010

Blossoms "how-to" Guide

Incase anyone is interested, this is a follow-up of my previous post of the blossoms I made from my scraps. It's pretty simple as you'll find out, and is nothing compared to what some very talented scrappers are creating with their crafty hands I'm sure, but still, it's one good way not to let those scraps go to waste.. and an economical way of adding dimension to your projects too.

Oh and I haven't done this kind of step-by-step guide before so please excuse me cause I know this might not be very good. I took as many pictures as I could. Hope this helps.

First up, you'll need these:

1. Paper punchers in two different sizes (mine is from EK)
2. Matching papers/scraps
3. Pop-up foam/glue dots (always the pop-ier, the better for me)
4. Tweezer/clipper not in the picture (sorry, missed it out)

Well, you can now start punching away, punch out a big and a small one from each paper.

At this point, you decide how you would like to layer them. For the one you choose as the "core" of the flower, you curl the petals under. I uses my tweezer from MM. For the other, create more dimension too by curling the petals slightly inwards with your fingers.

When you are done, they should look like these.

Now all you need to do is layer them up using the pop-up foam/glue dots.

For the last layer, I choose to just glue it on without using the pop-up dots but it's up to you really. Lastly, just glue a button in the middle and you are good to go!

Hope this is useful for those who might want to try it out and have fun!

On a totally non-scrappy note, I watched Unstoppable today and it was great! But ahah I might be biased cause I love Denzel Washington! ;p

Till next time..

4 comments:

Angela said...

Yay!!! You did an awesome job explaining how you did these. Wow, they look so very complicated..the finished product, but they really aren't that hard to make, are they? I never thought of the one up and one down method. Too cool!! Thanks so much for taking the time to post this. I so appreciate it!

Angela

GLOANN said...

I love them. Definitely will try making some. I'm bookmarking your blog so I can come back from time to time to see all your pretty things.

Michelle said...

You did a fabulous job with your tutorial. Thanks for sharing :). Your Chanel fund cracks me up lol...our family currently has a Nintendo Wii fund. Hope your box fills up fast. ;)

Shanon said...

Wonderful tutorial. I love the flowers and hope to try this soon.

~Shanon