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:confused: I must need a Flower Soft tutorial . . duh!! I am trying to cover a small daisy type flower with Flower Soft. I carefully apply the Flower Soft glue, sprinkle it on, light tap it into the glue and then I tap off the excess only to find a glob that looks nothing like a daisy. Any one else having similiar problems or have any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong. You would think this stuff would be stupid proof but I guess not . . . .
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:confused: I must need a Flower Soft tutorial . . duh!! I am trying to cover a small daisy type flower with Flower Soft. I carefully apply the Flower Soft glue, sprinkle it on, light tap it into the glue and then I tap off the excess only to find a glob that looks nothing like a daisy. Any one else having similiar problems or have any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong. You would think this stuff would be stupid proof but I guess not . . . .
Brush the glue evenly on the flower, use a heavy coating of glue, sprinkle the flower soft on, making sure the entire flower is covered. Let dry before shaking the excess off. When you try to tap it off while the glue is still wet, the glue will "drip" or "run". That is probably why you get the "globs".
But you can see close up that the edges aren't perfectly clean.
but- when are the edges EVER perfectly clean on a real animal?
I think that the flower soft on the animals is always adorable- and your card is JUST gorgeous!!!
I think that a heavy dose of glue is always the key- and i squish it into the glue- I will talk to the girls and see if we can get some instructional videos up on the FS blog-
I haven't tried it yet but I remember seeing a video tutorial awhile back. There was a tip about not using it directly from the container it comes in, but putting it all in a plastic container and separating it thoroughly. I think straight from the container the material is a bit clumped together and you need to loosen it up. Then you can set your cardstock in the container and sprinkle it on top with your fingers.
Making sure you seperate it first is really important. There really is so much in the container. It will tend to clump if you don't 'break' it up. I put mine in a bowl and break it up with my fingers. Once I'm finished I just put it back in the container.
I have bought the flower soft after seeing it demonstrated at the Allentown Heirloom Productions convention. I cannot get a nice look with any large images. If I just highlight smaller flowers by using small dots of glue and then applying the flower soft, it works for me. I tried doing a whole daisy, it looked quite blobby, but then I just put brown fs in the center, and it looked nice. I colored the petals with copics. Eileen
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In thinking about it more- I really do like Flower Soft! I think I often havethe base color the same as the Flower Soft I am working with, that way if any color shows through it matches.
Flowersoft is quite often demoed on one of our shopping channels, www.createandcraft.tv I can't see any specific shows for this week but they've only just launched polar white and the new Christmas toppers in the uk shops so there should be something this week or next.
Try covering only the CENTER of the daisy with glue, and applying some yellow flowersoft to it. If you think about it -on a real flower- the petals are not fuzzy, right? But the center is, because it has stamens and pollen in the center. I think if you just do the centers, you will be much happier with the result, it will look more natural.
Also, I think it looks nice if you have a bouquet in someone's hand, for instance, that has alot of tiny flowers and leaves. Then you can dot the glue here and there, instead of trying to cover the whole thing like one big blob. Or for hedges or bushes in a scene, or by a house. Or a patch of flowers in a larger scene. or dot it here and there on the foliage of a tree. I think the key is to use it sparingly.
Flower Soft challenged
