Poinsettia Flowers Tutorial from Card

Hello everybody

No matter how hard I want to be better blogger, various things always get on my way and crafting and blogging goes into second plan.


I hope I will make it up to you buy offering one simple tutorial for all those enthusiastic crafters  who enjoy making own embellishments.

I came up with this watching several different tutorial for all sorts of flowers, so it is not exact copy of somebodies work but it is sure inspired by other peoples work. I love making these using tick handmade paper, unfortunately I cannot always find this one so there is a way to achieve the texture using cardstock.

For this project you need:

1. Solid core card (red and green) 
2. some punch with at least one pointy end, I am using very old craft tonic tear drop punch
3. some water mister
4. scissors
5. Liquid glue (look for acid free one if you are making these to use on your scrapbook pages)
6. inks - optional
7. micro-beads/beads/buttons for flower centre
8. one small circle in red, could be punched or hand cut   

• Punch out 10 petals using your chosen pointy punch. Trim off sound side of 5 of them so that are slightly shorter. Then put them all on a craft sheet or some scrap paper and slightly mist them. take care not to overdone.

• Then crunch up each of them making tiny balls, see the photo above.
• Carefully unfold each ball, and you can ink them at this stage if you wish. You might find that pigment or chalk inks are better for this then distress inks.

• In next step apply glue on your circle and start gluing larger petals as shown bellow: 

• Once first layer is done you have something like picture above. Then apply glue in a middle of your flower and glue second layer of the smaller petlas and there your flower nearly done:

• Then apply more clear glue in a middle and add your chosen flower centre. If you using micro beads it is a good idea to wait until the flower and glue is completely dry then continue with this step. This is to prevent your micro beads to be glued on places you don't want them to appear.      

• Once your flower is dry you can punch out some green cards and leafs under your flower bud.

And there are few cards I made with these:

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial. Have a lovely day.

Svjetlana x

Thank You Teachers

It is now second week into summer school holiday, and for the first time after long time, my children can actually enjoy their holiday without going to daycare, I don't have to say how happy they are about that.

I made few cards for their teachers and I want to share them with you. This time I want completely shabby with my cards, very little pattern paper, lots of inks, stamps, distressing, my brand new Hero Arts script butterfly stamp, which I sooooo love and of course my home grown flowers:

and few close-ups:

The Blue and red flowers were made from naturally coloured paper raffia and then misted with glimmer mist (apple red) for red and Clearsnap smooch electric blue  (or something like that) for the blue flower.

That is all for now, hope you like my cards, thank you for your comments and reading my blog.

 

A Couple of Thank You Cards

Hello everybody

First of all I would like to say 'Big Thank You' to everybody who commented my last post or emailed me regarding my job problems. Your moral support really means me a lot, and my story is turning from bad into worse at the moment, but at least I am meeting a solicitor this week, so will get a proper advice.

I would also like to say 'Thank You' to everybody who visits my blog and what is better way to say thank you but 'Thank You' cards.

 

 I made these cards for our lovely childminder and her assistant as the kids had to be taken out of the daycare due to my job situation. The cards were inspired by one I have seen once on some blog. Please forgive me for forgetting which one and if anybody recognises them I would appreciate if you tell me where my inspiration came from. These cards helped me to find my mojo again.

The roses are my own make, used X-cut and EK Success punches and K&Co papers to do them, stamps are some old Basic Grey and Tim Holtz dies were used for the borders, of course lots of inks and plain cards. I hope you like them, there are few close-ups too:

 

This is all for tonight, I hope you like them.

Hope to write soon again

Svjetlana xx