Making My own Flowers

I got these instructions from a “professional” scrapbooker whom gives fantastic instructions on how to do various things. Unfortunately I can not remember that persons name so I apologise I can not link you to her website. I have therefore listed the steps I obtained from her blog and followed to make my flowers for the “Wimpey” layout.

                

1.  I cut out circles of various sizes from patterned paper.
2. As I used my Sizzix machines circle die I ended up with four different size circles.
1. I used double sided patterned paper from different ranges which coordinated together. This gave me more options on the combination of the style of each flower.
2. To create the petals I cut each circle into 8th, making sure that each cut DID NOT go down to the centre point of the circle.
3. I mixed up the different size circles, using one for the main flower and the other as the centre flower.
4. I used a pencil to curl the leaves to add dimension to each flower.

 I took a lesson learnt in my Decorate Life class and combined different styles and colours of brads to make the centre of the flowers.

I was really pleased with the results and a trick I am going to use in the future.