Saturday, July 18, 2009

A Walk Down Memory Lane Flower Tutorial.

Supply List:

12 x 1 inch of Patterned Paper
Mod Podge or other fast drying glue, a glue gun works too.
punched circle
anything you wish to decorate, brads, buttons flowers ect.

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Next take your 12 x 1 in. piece of paper and start making folds like in the picture below.

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Continue folding back and forth as evenly as you can till your paper looks like...

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Then connect the 2 ends using your glue or even double sided tape will work. Your flower should like like this..

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Then push the center down making sure the patterned part is visible. Put some Mod Podge or your hot glue gun glue on your circle and hold firmly, you might want to place something kind of heavy like a punch to hold it while it drys. May take 5 min or so.

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Once dry you can decorate the center.

Here's mine.

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and here's the full page I put it on, Using the Sketch from AWDML July Sketch!

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Products used:

Patterned Paper: Dream Street Gracie Daydreamer


Embellishments: White Flowers, Pink Flowers, Buttons, Brads

Misc. Chipboard and ribbon.

Have a great weekend!
Hugs, Mindy

4 comments:

Meli Palmer said...

Oh my goodness, what a great tutorial and a lovely flower!

Riet said...

Wowww Mindey,what beautiful,l love the colours and details.
So gorgeous flower.

Hugs Riet.x

Jacqueline (Sjakkie) said...

Great flower, realy wonderful. Thank for your good advice!
Hugs Jacqueline

XxJULESxX said...

Thank you Mindy yours looks amazing but when i tried this before it was a disaster!! i will now try it your way!