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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Easy Folded Flower Tutorial

As promised, I am going to do an easy folded flower tutorial as seen in one of my recent May Scrap That! kit layouts. At the end, you'll have a two-layer, 6-petal flower as shown below. The beauty of these flowers is that you don't need double sided paper (like you do with most other folded flowers). This is not a new concept and I cannot take credit for inventing this flower... I found it a long time ago on the internet along with other folded flower tutorials that I will be providing in the near future.

Step 1: Punch out 6 large circles and 6 small circles. I used a Fiskars and a Creative Memories Punch.
Step 2: Fold the circles in half with the pattern (that you want showing at the end) on the inside and then fold up the bottom a third of the way up. Make sure that all of the circles are folded the same way. Mine I do with the curve facing left as shown below.
Step 3: Unfold back to a semi-circle position and use the crease that you just made as a guide to "open the petal".
Step 4: Repeat this for all 12 circles.
Step 5: Glue your flower layers together by glueing one bottom "flap" to the back of a petal at a time, until all of them have been added. I find that using a glue stick is less messy and works best so that if you need to adjust the petals to be spaced more evenly at the end... then it allows you time (since it dries slower than other adhesives).
Step 6: I ink the edges before glueing the two layers together and then finish off by adding Stickles to the centre or a brad.
That's it! You can also make this a 7 or 8 petal flower if you like a more crowded petal look. Enjoy!

16 comments:

Darien said...

Thank you so much!!! These flowers are Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!

Bonnie aka Cinnabon said...

Thank you so much, Vicki! I waited sooo long for this! I couldn't figure it out for the life of me!!! You Rock!

Zarah said...

Super cute! Thanks!

Monique Liedtke said...

Wonderful & fun technique!! Thanks for showing us!!!

Tabbetha said...

Thanks for this great tutorial Vicky! Im adding it to my tut list on my blog!! Tab

Peggy said...

super cute, going to have to try this.

Janet's Joy said...

Thanks so much for sharing this. I will try this out for sure.

JunieGirl said...

I'm going to try this today-it looks adorable! I think a future tutorial would be helped by having a picture of the back of the flower so less-adept crafters like me can see how it goes together "behind the scenes."

Melinda AKA medialady said...

This is such a cute flower! Thanks for the tutorial.

Unknown said...

I love the flower. Thanks so much.

Miss Jaster said...

what a fun flower! :) Thanks for the directions!

Melissa said...

Made a card today using this fabulous tutorial. Thank you for sharing it!

Unknown said...

Love them they are really nice for my projects...... Please post some more flat paper flowers..

Unknown said...

Great for my cny school notice board deco

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