Hello Everyone!
I have many crafters wondering what this Flower Soft is all about! So today's tutorials are to just give you some basics!
Flower Soft comes in many colors and is so easy to use! It can give your card or scrapbook page that extra touch that makes it very special!
Here are a couple of samples using the Flower Soft:
Left picture: Flower Soft has been used to make Charlie Baby's blanket fuzzy
Right picture: Flower Soft has been used to make the flowers fuzzy and dimensional
Stamps used in above samples: Charlie Baby and Asian Plants
Both samples by Laurie Wilson
............................................................................................................................................
Let's get started with Flower Soft!
Links to Flower Soft products demonstrated throughout this tutorial:
............................................................................................................................................
Preparing your Flower Soft:
1. Your Flower Soft comes very tightly packed in a cute little jar.
2. You need to find a much bigger bowl to dump the Flower Soft in to so you can fluff it.
3. Fluff the Flower Soft with your fingers until there are no more clumps.
4. This is what your Flower Soft will look like when it is ready to use!
............................................................................................................................................
Creating a flower with Flower Soft:
1. Flower Soft provides special wires for you to use. This is a white coated wire that the glue will adhere to very well. You can color this wire to make your stems green, if you so desire!
2. Flower Soft provides a high tack PVA glue for the flowers. They do not guarantee the results of their Flower Soft with other products, but they do say that if you can find a "high tack PVA glue" in another brand it SHOULD work. In picture number two, I have coated the end of a 2.5 inch piece of the Flower Soft wire with the Flower Soft glue.
3. Next, holding the coated wire over your bowl, sprinkle the Flower Soft over the glued piece of the wire until it is covered to your liking. If the coating is thinner than you would like, you can recoat the flower that is on the wire with glue and apply another layer of Flower Soft after the fist layer is dry.
4. After coating your wire, place it in a piece of foam to dry. This should take about 30 minutes to completely dry....and the Flower Soft WON'T FALL OFF!
............................................................................................................................................
Giving dimension and texture to surfaces with Flower Soft:
1. In this example, I am taking a snowflake punch (I couldn't find my petal punch....I could have sworn I had one!) and made a flower out of it.
2. I glued three layers of snowflakes together and applied the Flower Soft glue to the center of the flower.
3. Sprinkle a layer of Flower Soft over the glued area.
4. Press the Flower Soft firmly into the glue.
5. Shake excess Flower Soft off of your flower.
6. As you can see in picture 5 my center wasn't round....so I just took my nail and pushed the Flower Soft into a circular shape!
7. Once again, if the thickness of the Flower Soft is not dense enough, wait 30 minutes for the first layer to dry, then coat the first layer with glue and apply a second layer of Flower Soft.
.............................................................................................................................
Samples using Flower Soft:
In this sample, I wanted my ducky to be fuzzy (the duck is from the Cute Critters set) so I took the Flower Soft glue and spread it with my fingers around the duck. I then sprinkled Flower Soft over my duck and pressed it into the glue with my finger. As you can see in the photo, this time I colored my flower stem green before I applied the Flower Soft.
..........................................................................................................................................
In this sample, Laurie (one of my Design Team members) takes the Flower Soft and makes her trees blossom! Isn't it beautiful? All you need to do is dab your Flower Soft glue where you would like it and sprinkle and press on the Flower Soft! You have just transformed ordinary to fabulous!
Stamp set used: Watermill
..........................................................................................................................................
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Hope your day if filled with blessing and stamping galore!
Lori
I guess it LOOKS like i got to get some of this...:O)
Thank you for showing
Posted by: Mary NSC | February 21, 2009 at 07:41 PM
I'm glad you did this tutorial -- now I can't wait to use the Flower Soft!
Posted by: Candyf | February 20, 2009 at 08:35 AM