punching flowers ~ a how-to

I love flowers. I'm already missing summer. My SIL gave me some gorgeous photos of my MIL's garden so that's what I'm busy scrapping.
 I was looking through my stash for embellishments to go with the photos and decided to try and make some.  There were some grape hyacinth in the garden photos so I thought I'd make something similar.
Here's what I used to make my flowers...

1. Vellum
2. A small flower punch ~ I punched about 35 flowers for each of my embellishments.
3. Needle and thread. ( thin wire would work well too)
4. Glue
4. Glue lines

Punch a whole heap of little flowers (30-40) then string them onto a length of thread.  Scrunch the flowers till they hold together and don't seperate.  When your flower looks how you want it, put a dot of glue at each end to secure the thread.

I then layed my flower onto a glue line.  This will help hold it's shape and also makes the flower into a 'sticker' ready to use.

You can find glue lines at Unforgettable Memories.  They'll be where the glue dots are displayed.  Just ask!

I hope you try these.  They are super cute on the page as an embellishment.

Mixed media

I love to play with inks, mists, paints and stamps on my layouts but I often feel like I'm not 'brave' enough with them. I stop before I really build up lots of layers because I don't want to muddy my colours or create too much of a mess. So I'm always on the lookout for tutorials and how-to's from other creative ladies.


I thought some of you might be interested in this one I enjoyed.

Gabrielle Pollacco put together a gorgeous canvas using paints, sprays, hand drawing, chipboard and cheesecloth for the Websters blog. She did it all on camera so you can see how she created her canvas here on her blog.

I hope you enjoy it.