Flower Crazy
Since I need a bunch (a bouquet? lol) of flowers for a meet up I finally tried out some of the tutorials - and I spent two days making flowers. Well, on and off, I did stop to eat and sleep and go to work - but I have made a lot of flowers!
I started with the distressed rose that I blogged about a few days ago.
I thought it came out pretty well. I used the heart from Platin Schoolbook for the petals then distressed it with the Distrezz-It-All. That was fun but it took a bit of time to put one together and I needed a bunch. So I moved on to the Water Distressed flowers. After making one I knew I had my flower!
They go together quickly and you can turn them out in sort of an assembly line. The tutorial specified several punches but because I own the Expression I don't buy many punches. I used the Walk in My Garden cart which honestly, I have never used much. Most, maybe all of the flowers on this cart have a bit of a wonky look. The petals are not perfectly symmetrical and the over-all shapes are a bit off - round flowers are not perfectly round and so on. But I think that works to the advantage of these "naturalistic" flowers. Flowers in the garden are not flawlessly round either are they? Plus, when you stack the petal layers together and stagger the petal points you get the right feel in the final product.
The technique is easy and fun, and simple enough to encourage experimentation and creative variation. My mind started racing ahead to other kind of blossoms. Here is an attempt at an aster or chrysanthemum-type.
The flowers in the tutorial are made from subtlety textured paper and I started with solid colors but quickly moved on to "background" stamps. I used a crackle pattern and a couple different kinds of small, packed swirls. You can stamp a whole sheet before you put it in the Expression and the pattern on the petals really makes all the difference.
Now I'm thinking about how I could make trumpet=shaped blossoms like daffodils. What about flowers with only a few big petals, like pansies and violets...
I started with the distressed rose that I blogged about a few days ago.
I thought it came out pretty well. I used the heart from Platin Schoolbook for the petals then distressed it with the Distrezz-It-All. That was fun but it took a bit of time to put one together and I needed a bunch. So I moved on to the Water Distressed flowers. After making one I knew I had my flower!
They go together quickly and you can turn them out in sort of an assembly line. The tutorial specified several punches but because I own the Expression I don't buy many punches. I used the Walk in My Garden cart which honestly, I have never used much. Most, maybe all of the flowers on this cart have a bit of a wonky look. The petals are not perfectly symmetrical and the over-all shapes are a bit off - round flowers are not perfectly round and so on. But I think that works to the advantage of these "naturalistic" flowers. Flowers in the garden are not flawlessly round either are they? Plus, when you stack the petal layers together and stagger the petal points you get the right feel in the final product.
The technique is easy and fun, and simple enough to encourage experimentation and creative variation. My mind started racing ahead to other kind of blossoms. Here is an attempt at an aster or chrysanthemum-type.
The flowers in the tutorial are made from subtlety textured paper and I started with solid colors but quickly moved on to "background" stamps. I used a crackle pattern and a couple different kinds of small, packed swirls. You can stamp a whole sheet before you put it in the Expression and the pattern on the petals really makes all the difference.
Now I'm thinking about how I could make trumpet=shaped blossoms like daffodils. What about flowers with only a few big petals, like pansies and violets...
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