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Happy World Card Making Day! In honor of this special day, let us make the world a more beautiful place and plant flowers - on our cards! For today's special Technique Lover's Challenge we are going to make a card with hand made nested circle flowers.
I have long admired these type of embellishments in the store, but they can be expensive. Making your own is not only a great way to use scraps and save money, but it is also fun and easy. If you are not sure how to make them, see below for my tutorial.
Nested Flowers Tutorial
Supplies Needed
1. Paper or material for your flowers.
Anything you can cut, punch or die cut; scraps are fine.
Some examples:
patterned paper/cardstock/newspaper/sheet music
ribbon
lace
fabric
tulle
mesh
velvet
felt
2. Five (or more) circles cut with die cuts, punches, or scissors.
I like them hand cut the best - the imperfections and wrinkles look good!
Tip: I punch or die cut 5 of the largest circle with different materials, then hand trim them, making each one smaller and smaller. Size of circle used is up to you - I used a 2.5 inch circle as my largest.
3. A paper piercer or hole punch and brad to attach the circles together.
4. Optional: Paper distresser.
Directions:
1. Cut your circles. Distress them if you wish.
2. Layer the nested circles to make a flower. The largest will go on the bottom, the smallest on top.
3. Starting with the largest bottom circle, use your paper piercer to pierce a hole in the center. Put the next layer on top and paper pierce it; repeat until all layers have a hole in them and attach with brad. I like to attach it very tightly as that causes the layers to bunch up, shaping the flower.
4. Optional: Shape the flower by rolling edges, tearing, folding and wrinkling.
Design Ideas:
Experiment with different shapes - squares, floral - whateva!
Top the brad with a button
Shape them for texture dimension
Distress/fray the edges and sponge them with ink or acrylic paint for a shabby chic look
Hand stitch them for a homey feel.
Fold/gather some of the layers for a rippled look.
Your turn! Let's see your flowers!
Here is my sample card and here is a close up of the nested flower.
To view all the samples in the WCMDTLC08 Gallery click *HERE*.
Be sure to use WCMDTLC08 in your keyword to be entered into the prize drawing (no spaces, put a comma and space between keywords )
To be considered in the drawing for a prize for participating in the challenge, all challenge cards must be uploaded no later than Monday night at 11:00 pm EST.
Uploading Directions:
1. Keyword: WCMDTLC08
2. Upload by Monday October 6th at 11:00pm EST to be elegible for WCMD prizes from the SCS Member Companies.
3. Post a link to your card here for all to see.
4. HAVE FUN! :mrgreen:
Want to make today's cards mean even more? Donate them to these very worthy causes (and have a chance to win some awesome giveaways worth hundreds of dollars). Check out these posts on Cammie's and Korin's blogs for details.
Well, this was definately a challenge for me! I'm going to have to revisit it again at a later date as I'm not happy with the card I came up with. I'm running out of stuff! I even ran out of glue dots!! What's a girl to do?
__________________ Anjou My Gallery * My Blog - Dreaming in Color "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
__________________ Vanessa Pyatt "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
__________________ ~Sharon~ I'm a Proud wife of my OIF III & OEF veteran! Mommy of two beautiful girls! Ages 17 years & 2 years! We *heart* adoption! My Crafting BlogOur Family/Adoption Blog
I love all the cards so far - each and every one is so different and unique. Really great job on the challenges everyone thank you so much for playing! I am smiling so silly right now
and just for giggles I attached a pic of the wreck I had to literally push out of the way to take the picture, lol!!
Don't you just love a stamping frenzy??;)
and just for giggles I attached a pic of the wreck I had to literally push out of the way to take the picture, lol!!
Don't you just love a stamping frenzy??;)
WCMDTLC08 ~ Nested Flowers
