Have you seen those beautiful Prima flowers everyone is using for scrapbooking, cards, and crafts in general? Stunning and expensive and in my case, here in Denmark, I can’t find too many places to purchase them. I love using flowers in my papercrafting but it can get expensive. I have found numerous ways to replace these flowers by making my own! There are lots of tutorials for them online. Here is one of them.
First, you will need:
1 sheet patterned paper (this can be scrapbooking paper, scraps, tissue paper, gift paper)
1 paper fastener or brad
Gluestick
Pattern (below)
Trim
Download the pattern. I use three or four different sizes for my flower. You can resize it using your graphics program and print it out for use as a template. Cut out 4 flower pieces from the patterned paper.
Using the sharp point of your scissors, punch a tiny hole in the center of each flower and insert your fastener thru each flower with the smallest being first and the largest last. Push down the ends of the fastener to hold it down.
At this point, crumple up each petal of the flower. When you have crumpled it all up, straighten out the petals to enough to make it look like a visible flower. You can now decorate your flower. Ideas include inking the edges with a stamper, add glitter along the edges with some adhesive, glue some rhinestones to the center brad for additional bling, and in my case, I burned the edges a little for a grungy look. I have seen these flowers with Glimmer Mist (a glitter type of transparent paint covering) to give it extra shine.
You can now add your flower to your card or craft. You can make these in different sizes and different papers for variety. The only paper I would recommend not using is cardstock as it’s too thick to crumple nicely. The best would be the tissue or natural papers as it tends to look better grunged up. You can do various types of flowers or any number of petals, using the same principle of crumpling up your petals. If you get into making these, do a bunch of them in one sitting so that you have enough variety for your projects!
