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Easy Paper Flowers
July 8th, 2010 
28 comments 
One of my favorite things to make with paper is flowers. There are so many different ways to fold, wrinkle and wrap your paper into pretty flowers that I never get bored. This flower I am going to show to you today is a favorite of mine; my go-to embellishment. It is versatile and fun.
First, stamp your image on white cardstock. You will need 8 images for each flower. This stamp is from Stampin’ Up!’s Vintage Labels set.
Next, punch out your stamped images using a scallop circle punch. I love that Stampin’ Up!’s punches and stamps are made to fit.
To give you flowers a bit of an aged/distressed look, use Distress Ink in Antique Linen and a foam blending tool. Carefully blend the ink onto the scallop circles to desired darkness.
Spritz scallop circles with Perfect Pearls and water, giving the thick cardstock a pretty shimmer and more pliability. Wrinkle the flowers into a ball and let dry.
Unfold the balls and pierce through center. Secure with a brad and mold into desired shape. Adhere to card.
A TRUE FRIEND IS YOU FRIEND by Hannah Craner
Card is 5 ½ x 4 ¼”
Cardstock (Ocean Tides, Stampers Select White), ink (Ocean Tides, Orange Zest, Raspberry Fizz), twine: Papertrey Ink; Stamps (Vintage Labels), punch: Stampin’ Up!; Brads: Making Memories; Paper piercers: Making Memories and Scor-Pal (Scor-Bug); Distress ink (Antique Linen): Ranger
Create a card base from blue cardstock. Cut a 5 ½ x 2” block of white cardstock. Pierce a border on top and bottom of white block. Stamp sentiment on right side and antique with distress ink. Adhere to card base. Glue twine to card base to make stems. Tie bows around the twine for leaves and adhere Easy Paper Flowers to the top of stems.
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i love these flowers…i’m gonna give it a try right now!!!
thanks!
Gorgeous! Thanks for the tutorial.
Thanks for the tutorial, Hannah! Sweet flowers!
Super pretty Hannah! THanks for the share!
GOR-JUS!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your technique tutorial! I love making these too … so much prettier than store bought
These are sooooo pretty! I’m a sucker for those ruffly flowers & that stamp gives a perfect amount of color to them!
What a fun tutorial!
That card is so pretty!
I recently made a card using a paper flower too!
You can check it out here:
http://ayanaposadas.typepad.com/ayanascreations/2010/07/fancy-flourish-card.html
I thought the flowers were fabric. They are so pretty! And unique! Love the card, btw.
So much texture with these flowers—they’re great. I never met a flower I didn’t like.
Looks marvelous and as I have the stamp, the punch, the ink and the perfect pearl I’ll give this a try.
Eveline.
Oh I adore this Hannah!
I’ve made flowers like this before but never thought to spritz with Perfect Pearls! what a fabulous tip!!
Super, super cute! Thanks for sharing! Would you believe it?! I, actually, have that stamp and punch right in my own craft space. Yippeee! I know what I’ll be working on next
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Soooooooo pretty! I absolutely love your string stems with the little bows that you incorporated into your card too – absolutely inspired! :0)
I can’t wait to try these – thanks so much for the tutorial!
really great idea thanks for sharing – I have a feeling I’m going to be making tons of these
absolutely love the flowers and they seem much easier to make than they look!
I do have a question that maybe you or someone else can answer. I am totally new to the whole card-making craft and I’m wondering if when you give these cards (I’m assuming you actually use the cards — sending them off to people or presenting them with a gift) — are you able to put them in envelopes? Or do you skip the envelope and just give the card?
And what if you want to send them to someone via post? Will the cards be ruined in the envelope?
I know it’s probably a silly question but if I get into card-making, I want to be able to send them to special people …
Love’em!!! They’re so beautiful and yet they look so easy to make.
Gorgeous. Thanks for showing us how to make the flowers.
Hi Hannah,
Thank you for this great tutorial! I linked to it from http://bit.ly/b5A09S
Have a wonderful weekend.
Gorgeous flowers! I am going to try it using some of the stamps and punches I have on hand….should be able to make it work….: ) TFS! Jill
So adorable. I love making flowers but haven’t done it in awhile. Thanks for the inspiration to get back to it. Yours are so pretty.
Love those!
I love this tutorial, thanks so much for posting! I will have to try these one day soon . . .
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing! I love how fluffy the flowers come out!
Thanks for the tutorial! I was so excited to see I had all of the supplies to make these and I made some yesterday! They were easy to make and turned out beautifully! Thank you!!!!!
Barbie – When I make a card with this kind of dimension, I generally don’t mail it. I usually attach it to a package or stick it in a gift basket. If you do mail it, you will probably want to do it in a padded envelope.
So glad you are taking up card-making as a hobby! Beware…it’s addicting.
Wow! <3