• Little Happy

Little Happy

With this newsletter's focus being handmade paper flowers, I wanted to share another fun flower project that you may not have seen before. See how Piali Biswas shows us how to create a great layered flower with a fun twist. It's a twist that adds a lot of texture and interest, and makes her flower festive and exciting.

For her paper flower, Piali Biswas not only uses a different medium -- crepe paper -- than the typical patterned paper or cardstock, but she takes her flower to the next level. By making a few snips with her scissors into a basic die-cut or punched scalloped circle, she creates a lot of pretty petals. This alone makes a basic shape more versatile for card making, but she added a twist to her project. After layering the flowers, she twists each petal to create texture, volume and interest.

Design by Piali Biswas

Materials

• Cardstock: cream, aqua
• Blue crepe paper
• Jubilee printed papers: Hey Day, Carni Stripe
• A Little Happy stamp set
• Dye ink pads: black, light brown distress
• Green/white baker’s twine
• Acrylic Sunburst rhinestone
• 20 (3mm) light blue flat-back pearls
• 2 silver eyelets with eyelet-setting tool
• Threading Water edge punch
• Classic Scalloped Circles LG die templates (#S4-124)
• Die-cutting machine
• Sewing machine with white thread
• Paper adhesive

Crepe Paper Flower

Using 3 1/8-inch Classic Scalloped Circles LG die template, die-cut a scalloped circle from five layers of blue crepe paper (Photo 1).

Photo 1

Snip each scallop halfway to center (Photo 2).

Photo 2

With your fingers, twist top end of each cut piece (Photo 3).

Photo 3

Adhere layers together, only applying adhesive to center of flower layers (Photo 4).

Photo 4

Note: For extra support, try adhering a 1 1/2-inch cardstock circle to back of layered scalloped circles. Adhere Acrylic Sunburst rhinestone and pearls to center of layered flower to complete embellishment (Photo 5).

Photo 5

Card

Project note: Ink edges of card and printed-paper pieces brown as desired.

Form a 5 1/2 x 4 1/2-inch card from cream cardstock.

Cut a 5 x 2 3/4-inch piece from Hey Day paper. Machine-stitch along pattern edges in paper and along edges as desired.

Cut a 7/8 x 3 3/4-inch strip from Hey Day paper and a 1/2 x 30 7/8-inch strip from Carni Stripe paper. Cut a V-notch on top edge of each strip. Zigzag-stitch down center of each paper strip. Layer and adhere stitched-paper strips and Hey Day panel to card front as shown.

Cut a 2 3/4 x 5/8-inch piece from Hey Day paper. With black ink, stamp "sending you a little happy" onto Hey Day strip.

Cut a 2 7/8 x 7/8-inch piece from aqua cardstock; punch scallops along bottom edge. Layer and adhere sentiment panel and aqua cardstock piece together. Using eyelet-setting tool, set an eyelet onto each end of sentiment panel. Thread baker’s twine through eyelets; wrap twine around card front twice placing sentiment panel on card as shown. Tie a bow on left edge of sentiment panel; trim ends.

Adhere crepe paper flower to card front as shown.

Decorate inside as desired.

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