Tutorial Time with Nanda - Flower Making with Scrappers Floss

It is time for a new tutorial. This time I will explain how you can make a flower with scrappers floss.

What do you need?
Off course scrappers floss.
Something for the heart off the flower (I have used paper flowers and an epoxy circle).
Very sticky big gluedots.
Your imagination.

I found it easier to make the flowers when the card is ready. If you want to make a flower without a card than you can make the flower on a smooth sheet. It is important that you can peal off the sticky gluedot easy after making the flower.

This is the card where I want to put on the flowers. It is hard to see but I put a sticky gluedot on the card. That will be the center of the flower.

Here it is easier to see the sticky gluedot, next to the pencil.

OK, let's start making the flower. Take the scrappers floss and put the ends in the sticky gluedot. You can take one string scrappers floss or two or three, just what you like.

Make a loop with the scrappers floss. Make sure you put the scrappers floss very good in the sticky gluedot.

And make another loop. If you make sure your loop ends next to the first loop than it is easy to make the flower.

And make another loop. (so easy to do!)

And we are almost there, again one loop.

And yes, this is the last loop.

Now you can see the flower.

Use a scissors to cut the scrappers floss. And put a sticky gluedot on top off the first gluedot.

Now on to the center of the flower. I used one epoxy circle. They are sticky. And I used a piece of scrappaper.

Put the circle on the scrappaper. Because the circle is transparent you can see and choose the piece of the pattern that you want for the center.

Cut out the circle.

And put it on the sticky gluedot. Now the flower is finished.

Here you can see that I made 3 flowers. It is all the same way. The only differences are the centers and the amount of loops. I have flowers with 5 loops and 6 loops, it depends on how big the loops are and on how many space the scrappers floss use on the sticky gluedot. You can put anything on the centers, flowers, epoxy circles, half pearls, beats, sand just let your fantasie flowing.

A close up from the flowers. I made also a flower with one string of scrappers floss.
If there is no room enough on the sticky gluedot for the scrappers floss, just put another sticky gluedot on the first gluedot. Do this after you made a loop. Than you can make the next loop.

And here is the finished card. I put some leafs at the card and to give it some bling I used rhinestones.
I hope you will give it a try and fun!!

Tutorial Time with Adrina - How to make your own charm

How to make your own charm or key ring image!!

Used materials:
Shrink or Magic Sheet
Sandpaper
Stamp
Ink
Pencils or Copics
Scissors
Punch
Cardboard box
Heat tool

First you need to take a sheet of the Shrink or Magic Sheet.

Then make the surface a little rough with some sandpaper.
Take a (Pixie Cottage) stamp and stamp it on the sheet.
I used Hoo Loves You, available at Michelles Scrapbooking and More.

Then colour the image with your pencils or Copics.

Then cut out the image and make a hole in top of the image with a punch.
Put the image in a cardboard box and heat it with your heat tool.

The image shrinks, it becomes 3 times smaller and 9 times thicker.

Then make a charm of it and put it on your project or put it at your key ring.

HAVE FUN!!! Adrina

Tutorial Time with Davi - Making Organza Flowers

Today I will be showing you how to make flowers using organza and tulle. I have made three different ones to show you. #1. You will be cutting graduating size circles. They need not be perfect just a rough circle. #2. You will be cutting petal shapes. Be sure to cut some from green for your leaves. #3. You will cut long strip about 15 long and 1 1/2" wide. Also cut a few circular shapes for the center. You need to use nylon or polyester because it melts to create the edges.

You can use matches or one of the little Bar B Que lighters. I find wooden matches work just fine. You will want to just pounce it lightly along the edges rather quickly. The edges will melt and curl slightly. If you don't do it quickly it will be to much heat and will melt into a little ball. You might make a few extra to practice on first.

You will then stack together the graduating circles or petals and with needle and thread coming up in the center from the bottom stitch them together. You can then add a button for the centers or you can use pearls, beads or jewels etc. Next stitch or glue your leaves on for a fun flower


A pic of the finished flowers. You can make them fuller or not by the amount of layers you use.

Davi

Tutorial Time with Nanda

Lately I use the Martha Stewart punch around the page punches (MS patp) a lot. When you buy a set of MS patp you will get a folder with some information. On this folder are also some measurements for the card sizes you can use. Two of the sizes on the folder are:
5 inch / 12,7 cm (square)
6,75 inch / 17,15 cm (square)

Most of the time I found the 12,7 cm too small to work with and the 17,15 cm too large. So I figure out how I can use the MS patp with different sizes of paper. For this tutorial I use cm and not inches. If you use inches it works the same way I use the cm. The tutorial just show what you can do with every MS patp punch.

What will you need?
Martha Stewart punch around the page set (I used for this tutorial the Vintage Lace set)
Ruler
Pencil/Pen
A piece of scrap of scrap paper

Punch the border punch one time on a piece of scrap paper.

Look at the pattern. Look if you can find a pattern that repeats itself. With this punch there is a pattern that repeats three times. Measure one piece of the pattern that repeats. With this punch one piece of the pattern is 1,5 cm.

Take the measurement from the folder and start counting from there.
12,7 cm + 1,5 cm = 14,2 cm
14,2 cm + 1,5 cm = 15,7 cm
15,7 cm + 1,5 cm = 17,2 cm

Now you have two sizes between 12,7 cm and 17,15 cm.

To be sure you have the right size, just try it on a piece of scrap paper. I took a piece of paper that is 15,7 cm long. First I punched the corners. Remember to do that always when you use the punches around a piece of paper.

Now you can punch the border punch. Make sure you line the paper correctly on the punch. On the corner punch you will see where to put the left corner of the paper on the punch so the pattern will follow correctly.

Now you can use the border punch like normal. Just move the paper so you can punch one complete pattern from the border punch. You will see that there is a little piece of paper that isn't punched yet.



To punch the rest of the paper, that little piece, just move the paper to the left. Make sure the pattern from the paper on the left side lines up with the border punch. If the paper is cut at the correct size, the right corner of the paper lines perfect with the corner on the border punch. Punch and one side is done and you have the right measurements.


If the pattern doesn't line correctly because of 1 mm or less difference of the paper, then make sure you line up the pattern and paper on the left side correctly. Line up the right side with the punched corner so close as possible and punch. Maybe you will see a little difference but this will be so small that you are the only one who will notice. Believe me, I have this sometimes too.

Now you know the right measurements you can make cards which are bigger than 12,7 cm and smaller than 17,15 cm. Some punches don't have patterns you can make smaller like this one. Some punches you will need the measurements like 12,7 cm or 17,15 cm. But I found out that most of the punches you can make the card sizes smaller.

You can also play with the patterns from the punches. As you can see on the picture up here you can line up the pattern paper so you can see the whole pattern from the punch.

But if you move the pattern paper more to the edge you create a different look. And that with just one punch! So be creative and just play with the punches you have. Have fun!!
If you have any questions just leave a comment and I will answer your questions.

This card is made with a piece of paper from 15,7 x 15,7 cm. I used the Vintage Lace punch around the page set and moved the pattern paper more to the edge. The stamp is Hannah with candle by Sandra Hammer. You can buy the stamp at Michelle's scrapbooking & more.

Tutorial Time with ArTish

"Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee"

all rolled into one!

It's tutorial time at...

The Pixie Cottage

In the spirit of the Season known for decorations

I thought I'd present to you an ARTishtic Ornament.

The Vision....

utilizing my new Snowflake embossing folder & Cuttlebug,

an empty acrylic snap together ornament from Hobby Lobby...

and the red rubber stamp...

Here Comes Winter by ARTish

To cut the "perfect circles" I used Creative Memories

small circle template on the outside with the red blade.

lesson learned...cut first THEN emboss.

...works much better in that order!

Stamp and color...I'm doing each step in duplicate

so that no matter which side you view the ornament there will be art!


I use the Creative Memories cutter again- cutting the bears into "coasters" and then from the snow hills up used scissors to cut around the stamp edge. For added dimension I then mounted the colored and glossed bears onto the embossed snowflake circles using 3-d tape.
(note~ the flakes have been tinted with blue chalk)


Can't have rolling snow hills without snow...
"let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!"


Place the double-sided
Here Comes Winter by ARTish bear circles
on the ornament ledge...


the 'tea cup' view...
Repeat the blizzard on the other half,
snap together, and commence to singing Christmas tunes.


Far warmer than shoveling the snow...

Voila!

How many more to cover a tree?

*None, if I take the Charlie Brown approach!

There are several Pixie Cottage Stamps

and multiple Digital Images by The Pixie Cottage
that would be fantastic for creating ornaments like this one.

Happy Creating,

and an early Merry Christmas,