Paper Flowers

Today's guest blogger is Tanya, from the Scrappy Scavenger blog. Be sure to check out all the fun projects posted on her blog as well! She made these amazing flowers out of paper and was awesome enough to send us the instructions for them!

To make the red carnation on the left:

 I started with 5 scallop cuts at 2 1/2 inches:

I inked them:

Then I piled them up,  punched a center hole, and attached my brad as tightly and close as possible. It will be tugged on quite a bit, so you don't want the paper or cardstock sliding and tearing under the brad.  Keep in mind this is the center of your flower, so you may want to use glitter or flocking on it, if you want it open enough to see the brad. I really like mine more closed, but you can make a couple different ones, which makes it look as if you have more types of flowers in your bouquette.  (That's one of my secrets!)  Completely open it looks like a poppy! 

Pull up the first layer to the center and squish and pinch, paying close attention to making sure the bottom of the center is squished tightly. Working around the circle making a fan fold may be  necessary working with the thickness of cardstock because its a little harder to just squash into place as paper or tissue would be.

Repeat wit all layers till you achivve the cylinder shape. I like to press it tightly all around.

 Then I like to press the tips of the petals in the ink at this point.

Now carefully open it outer layer first working to the center untill you get your desired result, I like to make a lot and vary them.