Rolled flower tutorial with Marla!

Hello again and Happy Wednesday!  I hope you had a chance to make some something “springy” for your home and if you didn’t, hopefully you were able to get some good ideas!  Today I want to share with you how I made my bouquet of rolled flowers. 

 
I found the paper picking process to be most difficult (probably how I ended up with several bouquets)!  First find some double-sided coordinating papers (cardstocks works well too to balance out the color palette).

 
Draw a circle on one side of each page.  I found an 8” circle gives a nice sized flower and happened to have a plate that size too.

 
Draw a spiral pattern trying to keep the spacing fairly even.  The lines do not have to be straight and actually gives the flower a little more depth if they’re wavy.  Cut along the spiral leaving a larger area in the center.  That’ll be the base holding everything together.

 
Starting with the outside edge of the spiral begin rolling the paper in a tight coil.  It’s ok if it unrolls a bit towards the end, that’ll open the blossom a bit.  Now here is the trick, use hot glue to hold it all together.  Put a nice amount on that center piece that is now the bottom of the flower and flatten the coil onto the glue.

 
Cut some simple leaf shapes (I freehanded them) and hot glue them to the bottom of the flower with a wire stem.  Make as many as needed to create a full bouquet and you’re ready to display!

If you haven’t created something yet I hope you’ll try these and let me know what you think!  Have a great Wednesday!

~ Marla Kress

 

Announcing our Facebook winner!  If you follow us on facebook then you will know that we love to have a little fun over there.  Since we were about 100 fans away from 10,500 fans on Monday night I thought it would be fun to challenge our fans to share SCT with their friends to see if we got to 10,500 fans in 24 hours.  The prize was that I would dive into my secret stash of my favourite papers and give one winner 10.5 sheets.  Yes, 10.5 sheets.  I would actually cut one of my favourite sheets.  You see paper is not meant to be hoarded right...repeat after me :)   Of course we did it and our winner is Rose Stannell!  A thank you to all our facebook fans for having some fun with me on a random Monday night at 10:00 p.m.!!!  Rose send your contact information to me at catherine@scrapbookandcards.com.

 

Comments

[Becky Fleck]

Love the wavy edge on the spiral -- it really does add a lot! Nice job, Miss M!

[Melinda T]

Cool and very easy! Thanks for sharing!

[shannon91]

thanks !!! very cute ...
Bizz

[kelly]

I am off to make some right now! They are fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

[Brenda B]

Super project. I've got to try them! It's a great way to use the double sided paper that is too gorgeous to use in a one sided craft.

[Judi V.]

What a great idea ti 'spring' up your house!!I guess I'll have to un-hoard some of my paper!!!

[Kathy P]

This is so cool....I must try this idea out!

[Barb in AK]

Hmmmm.... I think I could easily give that a try! Thanks for the steps and example. Now to dig out my hot glue gun......

[D. L. Denton]

Thanks for sharing such a cute project.

[kelly]

I made one of these flowers last night, and ohhh I LOVE it! It looks awesome, not to mention how easy it was to do!!! I will definitely be making some more of these in the very near future ;)