Fabulous Flower Techniques with Imaginisce, Making Memories & Basicgrey
Posted by scrapbook on July 13, 2010 under Brads, Flowers, Page Idea, Tools, Uncategorized | 
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Hello Scrappers!
Now that spring is finally here, I love to take pictures of the flowers in boom. This new layout heather made displays them beautifully! This new page was made using a combination of different scrapbooking companies. This layout is all about flowers and many different flowers were used. You get to learn how to make all of them and more right here on this blog. Another thing that we used a lot of in this layout is the i-topper. The i-topper is a brad-making tool from chatterbox. This tool is a super fun way to create personalized brads in a few easy steps. The i-topper can work with mostly any material, including: candy wrappers, fabric, ribbon, paper, photos and much more. In this layout, we mostly made paper brads. The i-topper can really add that extra something to a layout or page!
Here’s how to put this page together:
step one: use cream cardstock as base page.
step two: cut brown cardstock th 9 1/4″ x9 1/2″ and adhere to right side of page.
step three: cut floral patterned paper to 9″x 9 1/4″ and adhere on top of brown cardstock.
step four: cut green cardstock to 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ and adhere on top of floral patterned paper.
step five: adhere cream journaling block on top of green cardstock and to right side of page.
step six: adhere die cut “f” to top left corner of the layout.
step seven: using a pink marker color white alphabet stickers pink and add to title, finishing the word “flowers”.
step eight: add brads and flowers to layout.
Here are the insructions to creating a variety of Fabulous Flowers:
1. The Fabric Yo-Yo Flower
Using fabric, thread, needle and button, cut a piece of fabric into a 3 ½” circle. Thread needle and tie a knot at the end. Run needle through fabric about ¼” from the top sewing around entire circle. Gently pull thread so that fabric begins to gather and form a circle. Once the fabric is gathered tie a knot at the end and cut off excess thread. Embellish with a button or an i-top brad.
2. The Ribbon Flower
Cut a 12” piece of satin or sheer ribbon. Thread a needle and tie a knot at the end. Run a needle through the fabric about ¼” from the edge. Gently pull the thread to gather the ribbon into a circle, tie a knot at the end and cut off excess thread embellish with a button or an i-top brad.
3. Layered Chipboard Flower
Layer silk or paper flowers with buttons and chipboard.
4. Layered Button Flower
Layer multiple button sizes on top of each other.
5. Fan Fold Flower
Cut two 2” x 12” pieces of patterned paper. Fan fold each piece of paper every ½” and adhere both ends together. Place a small amount of glue on a piece of paper of cardstock and press the center of the flower into adhesive. Place some weight on the flower until adhesive is dry. Add a button to the center of the flower.
6. Flower from Grosgrain Ribbon
Draw a spiral shape in pencil on either your layout or base page. Cut a 14” piece of ribbon and adhere ¼” super tacky tape to the backside of the ribbon. Starting from the outside edge and following your pattern, adhere ribbon to page, folding ribbon every ½”. Continue to center of flower. Embellish with a button or an i-top brad.
7. Flower from paper strips
Cut ¼” strips from patterned paper and adhere on top of each other to create this flower. Embellish with a button or an i-top brad.
8. 5-Petal Flower Pattern
Materials: any size crochet hook (depending on what size flower you want), any weight yarn.
Rnd 1: Ch 5 join into a ring w/sl st in 1st ch.
Rnd 2: Ch 3 (counts as first dc), work 9 dc in ring, join to top of ch w/sl st—10 sts.
Rnd 3: **Ch 2 work 3 dc in next st, ch 2 sl st in next st** five times. Fasten off
For a different color center, try changing yarn colors after found 2. Experiment with different weight yarns and hook sizes. To layer a slightly smaller flower on top, go down one hook size from larger flower.
9. Stacked Flowers
Stack flowers from tissue paper, patterned paper and felt. All flowers and materials are either punched or cut from circles and layered.
10. The Fabric Flower-using fabric
Cut fabric 1 ½” wide and 14” long. Begin with center of the rose by folding down one end of the strip on an angle and then fold fabric in half. The flower is formed by twisting and folding fabric into a spiral formation.
