I survived…

Apr 4, 2011

Barely, but I did sur­vive the tap­ing of two videos Fri­day, while in Cincin­nati. Glad that is over. But I do believe you are going to like the tuto­ri­als and now I know how I want to do some for my blog. Once they fin­ish per­form­ing mir­a­cles in the edit­ing room they will send me the videos to share with all of you. The week was super awe­some and I am so excited to see this book come together. While talk­ing to every­one there about the design and lay­out I could finally pic­ture it com­ing together in my head. I’m going to be so proud of this book. It is exactly how I hoped it would be.

Before I left for Cincin­nati I made a few fab­ric flow­ers and thought I would show you how to make them. They are so fun to accent bags, purses and of course clothing.

This one is for my friend Ronda as in Help Me Ronda. She is all about color so while dig­ging in my fab­ric scraps and I came across this I had to make her one.

This flower was made for my edi­tor Jenni Clay­don. She has been awe­some to work with and reads my mind… this is great for me but if I were her I would be very afraid.

I made this flower for Chris­tine Doyle. Chris­tine is the Edi­to­r­ial Direc­tor at F+W Media and a true delight to chat with… when­ever I’m in for a photo shoot we always go to lunch one day and she always comes by the Maya Road booth at CHA to say hi. She pretty much oozes sweetness.

This flower is twice the size of the oth­ers. I made this one for Chris­tine Polom­sky. She is one of the pho­tog­ra­phers who pho­tographed the images in my Delight In The Details book and pho­tographed all the step outs last week. She is such a super patient and won­der­ful per­son to work with. I thought this flower would look cute on one of her cam­era or tote bags.

So as you can see some of the flow­ers have felt lay­ers mixed in with fab­ric. All I did was use the Tim Holtz Alter­ations Tat­tered Flo­rals Die and cut out 9 of the larger flower from felt and fab­ric then one felt cir­cle about2.5 inches in diam­e­ter . I then cut the fab­ric flow­ers in half plac­ing one half of the fab­ric flower on top of a felt piece, folded the felt piece in half and placed the sec­ond half of the cut fab­ric piece on top of the felt piece. Then I folded this piece in half form­ing a tri­an­gle. Next I stitched a straight stitch across the bot­tom por­tion of the piece about a 1/2 from the tip. You will repeat these steps until you have 9 com­pleted petals for your flower.

Once all 9 are fin­ished place fab­ric adhe­sive to the cen­ter of the felt cir­cle and begin attach­ing the flower petals. You need to remem­ber two things… make sure the points of each petal match up and meet in the cen­ter. And on the petals you will have one side that has the fold and one side that opens just a bit… when attach­ing the petals to the felt cir­cle make sure the petals all go the same direc­tion. I made sure the fold was always on the left side as I attached it to the felt circle.

Once you have four petals attached to the felt cir­cle apply more fab­ric adhe­sive to the cen­ter on top of the points and attach four more flower petals mak­ing sure to place the first petal for this layer on top of the area where two petals meet. Hav­ing the sec­ond layer off set from the bot­tom layer will make your flower look nicer and more nat­ural. Once you fin­ish attach­ing all four petals place fab­ric adhe­sive to the cen­ter of the sec­ond layer and attach the last remain­ing petal.

To com­plete your flower find the cen­ter of the top petal, apply fab­ric adhe­sive and place some sta­mens in the cen­ter. Now attach a pin back to the back of the felt cir­cle and you are done.

For the larger flower instead of using a flo­ral die I hand cut larger flow­ers from felt and fab­ric then repeated the same steps as I did for the smaller ones. Give these a try. They are super fun and easy to make and can be used for many dif­fer­ent things.

Wish­ing you a happy Mon­day,
Hugs & Stickles!