I am so excited to have this fun Tuesday's Tip to share with all of you! It is being featured on the KaiserCraft blog today as well.
I used the fun new collection, Hey Birdy, for my roses and finished vintage trinket box. The unfinished trinket box is also from KaiserCraft as one of their BTP (beyond the page) wooden items.
So lets make some pretty roses!
Step 1: Gather supplies. Using any six-petal flower punch or die cut, make 5 flowers of the same size.
Step 2: Trim flowers as shown below. Two flowers will have a slit cut into them to the center, and the others will be cut into segments. Each piece will now become a different size layer of the finished rose. Discard smallest flower segment (the single petal), and you will now have 7 flower segments of varying sizes.
Step 3: Using the corner of the ink pad, ink each flower segments from the centers out as shown below.
Step 4: Starting with one of the flowers (that still have all of their petals and just the slit cut into them), apply glue to one of the petals. Slightly curve the flower over itself so that one petal overlaps the glued petal. Secure by holding in place til set. This six petal flower has now become a dimensional five-petal flower, and will be your rose's bottom layer. Do this to the second flower with just the slit cut into it. Continue doing this to all the segments. You should have dimensional layers in the following sizes: two- 5-petal, one- 4-petal, one- 3-petal, two- 2-petal, one center (this should look like a tightly rolled cone). As you are overlapping each layer, use your thumb nails to slightly curl petals in an outward direction.
Step 5: This is what all of your glued segments should look like after being glued and curled, pictured below with a finished rose.
Step 6: Using a pencil eraser or bottom end of a pen, flatten inside bottom of both 5-petal, and 4-petal layers. This will allow your rose to sit flat on your surface.
Step 7: For remaining 3-petal, 2-petal and center layers, cut bottom pointed end off about halfway down. This will allow each section to sit securely inside the previous layer.
Step 8: Starting with 5-petal layers as your base and working inward with the smaller size layers, glue each layer to center until you have a finished rose as shown below.
So there you go! A pretty paper rose. :) Now you can add extra ink, glitter, walnut stain spray (what i used on my vintage trinket box), glimmer mist, or anything else you want to add further dimension, shading or texture.
Thanks for looking!
later,
nancy
