spiral flowers
I’ve seen flowers like the ones on my layout above popping up in scrapbooking galleries on the Internet. I think they are so pretty so I did some research and found out how to make them. I thought they’d be perfect for this flower girl photo of my niece.
Here ’s how you do it…
1.) Draw a spiral on a 4×4” piece of paper. You can vary the size of your end product by changing the size of the paper. As well, the tighter the spiral, the more layers the end product will have.
2.) Cut out the spiral along the lines. I’ve seen these also made with wavy lines, by tearing the spiral out, and you could even try deco scissors for a different look.
3.) Place a glue dot on the outside end of the spiral and begin rolling from the outside. The glue dot will help the flower to not unravel.
4.) Keep rolling until the end. The last bit sometimes doesn’t want to go so I just cut it off. Let go of the flower and work the layers a bit. Put a glue dot on the end of the flower to keep it from unraveling.
5.) The finished flower!
I made three for my layout. I love how they kind of look like ranunculus!
Here are the directions for the flower girl layout. A little birdie told me some of you were interested in directions!
1.) Cut green cardstock to 8.5×11”.
2.) Cut Cosmo Cricket Earth Love Recycle brown paper to 9.5×7”. Using Heidi Swapp edge distresser or fingernail, distress edges of paper. Adhere near center of Green Paper.
3.) Cut Pink Paislee Grid paper to 8×5”. Using Heidi Swapp edge distresser or fingernail, distress edges of paper. Center on brown paper and adhere.
4.) Place photo near top center of Grid paper and adhere.
5.) Using border punch, punch across hot pink cardstock. Cut 7x¾” strip and adhere along the bottom of the photo.
6.) Make three spiral flowers (see above) – I made one 4.5”, one 4” and one 3”. Adhere to left end of pink strip – I think wet glue works best for this. I used Zip Dry.
7.) Cut two leaves and two twirly stems off of Prima flower bunch from add-on and adhere near flower.
8.) Rub title onto bottom of photo and adhere chipboard letters below.
9.) Using a McGill File Tab Punch, punch tab out of one of the Labels on the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love Elements paper. Cut the word beautiful or another word out of the other side. Adhere upside down to top of brown block.
10.) Cut out one of the labels from the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love Elements paper. Cut the label in half lengthwise. Adhere the two pieces below the pink strip, lining up the lines. Write your journaling on the blocks.
If you make one of the flowers and use it on a project, be sure to post it somewhere and link me up. I’d love to see your take on it!
Have a great weekend everyone!
xo Celeste
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August 21st, 2009 at 8:57 am
I love that I can come to KR and make pretty much ANY kind of paper flower I choose. So gorgeous and I have been wondering how to make them! TFS!
August 21st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
i just LOVE this tutorial celeste!
xoxo
it’s the cutest thing :)
I’ll have to give this a try. I can’t wait!
-d
August 21st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Hey Celeste! I was working on this project for Helmar Adhesives and knew that the flowers would be a perfect addition! I quickly made them and added them to my already in progress project and voila! Here’s the link and a little shout out to KR heh – http://helmarusa.typepad.com/blog/
August 21st, 2009 at 8:11 pm
ooooh!!! Thank you for sharing how to make these flowers! They look so pretty on the layout!
August 21st, 2009 at 10:31 pm
super fun! TFS!
August 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 am
that’s a brilliant idea! love <3
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:30 am
i love these spiral flowers too. i wanted something ‘new’ and played with some paper and came up with a spiral flower. it was the perfect accent to a photo frame i was embellishing.
August 23rd, 2009 at 6:27 am
absolutely LOVE this celeste!!! what a gorgeous page
thanks so much for the how-to!!!
xoxox
gi
August 27th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Ooh, I love this layout! Can’t wait to try out the spiral-y flowers. I’ve been seeing them everywhere but had no idea they’d be so easy to make!
August 31st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Terrific tutorial Celeste. I have tried it before and it didn’t really work out for me! I think yours will help me be successful! Thank you.
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