Spring Flowers

Hey Friends its Katie here. Happy Tuesday and welcome to a flowery day here on Clearly iStamp.  In honor of our monthly challenge this month and with the theme of FLOWERS, I felt it was appropriate to take a look at a couple of methods of creating some fun flowers for your cards/projects as well as some wonderful floral stamps available at Clear Dollar Stamps.

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Ok, so my first little fun flower starts with some great recycled tissue paper.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE tissue paper and so many places have really cool paper that you can horde... oops... I mean use at a later time.  Today's tissue paper isn't our grandmother's tissue paper.  It comes in so many colors, designs, etc  and all FREE (sort of, but you know what I mean)

I decided to make a flower from some tissue paper from I don't remember where, but I'll be sad when its gone.  I used the Blossom Nestability Dies to create the different sizes in order to create this layered flower. Because the tissue paper is so thin you can layer it up and cute quite a few at a time.   

 

Next, layer the 3 sizes of tissue paper.  Notice the floss to the right?  All you need is one strand.

 

Fold all 3 layers in 1/2

 

Fold in 1/2 again.

 

And one more time.

 

My last step is to use my floss/thread and wrap it around my tip and tie into a knot.  The reason I do this for this flower is that it keeps it more dimensional and lifts if up more than just scrunching it together.

 

Trim edges and then just fold out.  The more crinkled the better.  You've got loads of room to play with.

 

I then attached it with a thin pop dot to my card front.  This is one of those cards that you'd want to hand deliver due to the fragility of the tissue paper.

I used a sentiment from  Words of Sympathy and used the Labels 8 Nestability to cut it out.  Oops... are you looking closely at my cardstock and ribbon... shhh... don't say anything.

ETA... the embossing folder that I used is a cuttlebug folder called Victoria.

 

Another fun way of creating a floral theme is by using stamps that aren't "flower" stamps.  Here is a great example.  I grabbed a set called Sweet Circles which was the February Stamp of the Month... gotta tell you stampers, you need to grab these up when you get the chance.  But... you can get the same effect using Circle Chit Chat or Circle Somethings.

First stamp, punch out, and in my case I attached my button and then used scissors to create my petals.

 

 

The button creates a ready and easy guide.  After you are done snipping just use your finger tips to play with the petals.  You want them "teased".

Here is my card that I created with these "flowers".  I used Bubble Gum cardstock on Cottonball White and paired it with some yummy Tangelo Smoothie satin ribbon... all from the new Clearly Coordinating Collection.  My sentiment came from a set called Sweet Symphony.

 

And now for my final flower card comes from a Flower of the Month.  If you didn't know Clear Dollar Stamps has entire year's set of flower stamps.  You can purchase the entire set at a discount too. 

Because it is the month of May, I focused my next card using the May Flower... one of my favorites.  I colored with Copic Markers (G94 and YG63) and then added Ivory Flower Soft for the perfect embellishment.

 

I showcased this gorgeous stamp with Billowing Clouds and Cottonball White Cardstock and the coordinating Billowing Clouds grosgrain ribbon.  

 

So that's it for me...I hope you have a great Tuesday and remember to go visit our monthly challenge!

Comments

[lasona]

I love the tissue paper flowers, I have the paper also it is from starbucks, its fabulous and so antiquish..Thank you so much for your tutorials, they are such an inspiration I find myself on your blog more than once aday..Beautiful work tfs God Bless

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[Mary Ann Huntington]

Thank you for the flower tutorials. I especially like the browns in the first card. I don't see where you mentioned what Cuttlebug folder you used for the background.

[jane]

Hi. Your cards are beautiful. What is the embossing folder in the first card? jane12734@aol.com

[Bev]

What an informative post-love the flowers you made and the flower soft card is just gorgeous! tfs

[Candy Fosta]

Love the Lily of the Valley with the flower soft!

[Marsha]

These are beautiful. Thanks for the great tutorials.

[Tracy J]

Katie, these are awesome cards and tutorials. I just love those simple but very cute pink circle flowers, and the vintage look of the tissue paper ones. Thanks!