Thursday 26 January 2012

Take one daisy flower...

Hi guys!  I am snowed under at the moment with card orders and design work, so don't have a project that I can share with you at the minute.  Because of this, I thought I would share a little tutorial with you using mulberry paper daisy flowers...it's amazing how many different flowers you can make from one, TBH quite boring, little paper flower, so here goes...

To begin, take one daisy flower...
Cut in half...
Using one of the halves, place glue on one of the outer petals...

 Fold the opposite edge petal around and stick the 2 petals together...
Attach a pearl or gem in the centre using Pinflair glue or similar...
Flower number one!
Okay, so on to flower 2...
Once again, take a flower and cut in half.
Using one of the halves, place glue on the centre semicircle, as shown in grey...
Fold 2 of the outer petals in, so that they line up with the 2 centre petals...
Fold the opposite 2 outer petals, so that all the petals line up...
Now place glue on the bottom of the flower and fold in half...
Take the second half of the daisy flower and place glue on the centre semicircle, as before.  Lay the folded flower on one of the outer petals...
Wrap the second half around the folded flower centre...
This is how the flower looks from the top...
And there you have flower number 2!
A variation on this flower is to add extra layers to make it fuller...
Take another daisy flower and cut out 3 petals...
Using the larger piece, place glue on one of the outer petals and attach to the opposite edge petals, to create a cupped daisy...
Snip the point off the previous folded flower (flower number 2) and attach inside this cupped daisy with Pinflair glue or similar...
You can leave it there, or take it even fuller by adding a third daisy.
Cut 2 petals from this third flower and, as before, glue the 2 outer petals together, then snip the very point from the flower above and attach inside...
So that's flowers 3 and 4!
The 3 petals that were left over in making number 3 can also be used for small 'filler' flowers...
Place glue on the central quarter circle and fold the 2 outer petals inwards, pinching the base of the flower together to adhere...
So that's now 5 flowers!
Okay, I have one more for you...
Once again, take a daisy flower and cut in half, then, cut away another petal on each half...
Again, place glue glue on one of the outer petals and fold round to attach to it's opposite edge petal, to create a 4 petalled flower...
Repeat with the other daisy half, then attach the 2 flowers together, one inside the other, snipping off the point of the inner one if needed...
Et voila!  There we have number 6!
I'm sure there are many other combinations and you could also do the same using punched flowers.  Hope this gives you some inspiration to look at those boring, flat flowers a little differently!  Thanks for dropping by and happy crafting!  Lisa x

2 comments:

coops said...

fantastic tutorial lisa.thanks foe sharing hun ;D

xx coops xx

Grace said...

Lisa, Thanks for the nicely explained tutorial.Very useful to me, will help me to create small filler flowers. Thanks a lot, it means a lot