An Easy Flower To Make and Use As Bling
An Easy Flower To Make and Use As Bling
This flower will look like a camellia, a rose or a gardenia, depending on which tiny centre piece you attach. To make a flower of any type, it is best to have the colour of the flower, on both sides of the sheet. This may be double sided paper, as in the photographs here. Or the shade or design, may be printed or photocopied, onto both sides. Another idea to try, is to use some sort of colouring tool, like permanent pens, water colour pencils, or even ordinary colouring pencils, or whatever other tool of your choosing. These flowers shown here, are quite small, but this works, just as well with a larger template, however you may need to use, more than the 3 flower shapes, but still use just the one for the finished flower centre, as the bud. I have included many photographs, rather than a lot of writing. I sometimes find it easier to follow pictures, diagrams, or photographs. If you need more help, I am available through the www.craftsuprint.com, web site.
You will need a coloured sheet of paper, slightly heavier than copy paper. I have used an embossed paper here, which is shiny on one side, and matte on the other side, and it is 100gsm, which I find a perfect weight, to withstand the cutting and twisting, that I punish it with.
Step 1.Cut out, a 9cm square, from the paper, and fold it 3 times. Close it as a tri fold and keep it closed for the next step.
Step 2.The photographs show the tool I used, as a template. The head of my tiny nail scissors are exactly the size I need, for this small flower construction. You may find a button, or a coin, will work just as well. You may also enlarge this template to use.
Step 3.Cut through the 3 layers of paper to make 9 flowers. This will give you the ability to make, 3 separate flowers.
Step 4.Make the cutting lines, using faint pencil lines. I have made these lines on the matte side of my flower.
Step 5.This flower is now, cut along the lines marked, and each petal, has been slightly curled backwards. Each of the petals, was then slightly twisted, at the cut edge, in towards the centre of the flower.
Step 6.Flower 2 is twisted a little more, and flower 3, even more.
Step 7.To make the flower centre I used, a 5cm square of the paper, and folded it 3 times. This third fold is done with the corner, you can see above, marked with the ‘S’, in the photograph, #2, and held firmly in your thumb and fore finger. Do not cut this corner. You can see the letter ‘S, in this photograph, # 4, how it is sitting in the centre, of the un-cut section of the flower. I opened this flower, after I had cut the petal shape, so that you can see, the centre un-cut section, is directly below the letter q. This is the shape I cut out, and # 4 above, is how it will look when it is opened. This new flower, now needs to be pinched together, to make a cluster of smaller petals, in the centre of the main flower.
Step 8.To construct the flower, I used small dots of white glue, and attached each flower, into the centre, one at a time. This is how the flower will look, if you choose a more open bloom, and skip the pinching technique described in step 7. This is the same flower, completed as above, as shown in step 8. I have added a round bead, in the centre. Before I cut out the pencil lines, I used, a pink glitter glue pen, to mark over those pencil lines, and also to edge the scallop petal tips. I added 2 pieces of paper lace, and a bow. The whole of this piece of bling, measures, 6cm x 4 cm. This is how I shaded the flower to give it more depth.
Step 9.If you want to make the flower, have the appearance of a rose, the following photographs will explain, how to make a bud for the centre of the flower. Make and use one of the flowers, as before, and cut away one of the petals, as in the photograph, marked # 1, in step 9. Roll one edge of the right hand flower petal, using a tooth pick, or something similar, towards the next petal. Continue this until it looks similar to the photograph, marked, # 2, in step 9.
Step 10.For a gardenia, or a camellia, here is something smaller to use as technique, if you want a tight cluster in the centre of the flower. I call this a, 3 step Technique. These are the pieces you will need to make, to have a tight cluster in the centre of the flower. Cut out a tiny circle, with a diameter of 1.5cm. Then fold it, with 6 mountain folds. Pinch this, at the centre point, between your thumb and fore finger, while pushing the folds into place, and keeping the mountain folds, as shown in the photograph, above. For this completed flower, I used 3 individual flowers, one folded corner cut 8 petal flower, but left these 8 petals open and curved, and one tiny little centre, as described in the 3 step Technique, in the photographs, in step 10.
This flower has not been glued together as yet. I have edged the underneath of the petals with a deep pink glitter glue pen. The paper is only printed on one side, and you can see that this type of paper with the pink on the edge of each of the petals, make the flower look almost transparent. This is the very same flower, still not glued together. I have now added the centre piece, from step 7. This is still the same flower, not yet glued together. I have now removed the step 7 centre piece of the flower, and coloured with the glitter pen, the centre piece described in step 9. I shaded it in, in this darker shade, so that you can easily see how this centre bud is formed.
One thing to remember, no 2 flowers are ever going to be exactly the same, when made by your own hands. However they all, will be, absolutely perfect.
You can make a floral arrangement in various shades, and with different combinations, of folding, to achieve the effect, of a bunch of flowers, or a bouquet. I hope you use, and enjoy making your own bling
Pamela Horton
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