Foam Flower Making

 LET’S LEARN HOW TO MAKE FOAM FLOWERS

MATERIALS REQUIRED:-

1. foam sheet(white)
2. ball tools
3. pearls or pollens
4. soft oil pastels preferable by Mungyo or any soft oil pastels you have
5. iron
6. perforating pad
7. hot glue gun
8. wet tissue
9. plastic sheet or craft mat

Let’s start with the making of the flower.

Step 1: If you have a die cutting machine you can cut 4 to 5 petals of a size or may be if you do not have a die cutting machine you can hand cut the flower petals by drawing them on the foam sheet..

Step 2: Once you have the petals of foam sheet take the oil pastels any shade of your choice scratch t on your craft mat or the plastic sheet you have then take a small piece of wet tissue and rub the tissue on the colour

Step 3: Take one petals and the wet tissue with the colour, Colour the petal and only one the edge of the petals front and back both the sides. You can also colour only in the center of the petals on both the sides.

Step 4: Once you are done with the colouring part of all the petals. keep the iron for getting heated alongside be ready with the ball tools and orating pad, now take one petal and place it on the iron make sure it is enough hot be careful while heating the petals once one petal is hot take it on the perforating pad take the proper size of the ball tool according to the size of the petal. Emboss the petals by putting the ball tool on each petal. In this way emboss all the petals

Step 5: Take the hot glue gun and keep it for heating, alongside tie the polons if you want to put some polons or you can even place a pearl. Now take one petal put some glue in the center now place other petal on the petal make sure that you place the petal in center of two petals of the first petal. Place the 3rd and the fourth petal in the same way. Now make a hole on in the center if you are putting a polon. Or if you are putting a pearl just put it with some hot glue.

Now you can make as many flowers you want to make and stick them on any object for more beautiful look, I have posted few envelope samples for reference

Paper Quilling Flowers

Lets learn to make paper quilling shapes first.

Things needed to make quilling shapes

1. 1 pkt of 5 mm or 3 mm assorted paper quilling strips
2. 1  quilling needle to roll the strips into shapes
3. glue

Steps to make different shapes:-

Step 1: Take one strip and put in the quilling needle and start rolling till it is rolled completely in a circle

Step 2: Remove the circle from the needle.

Step 3: Now pinch the cirlce on one side to get a tear drop shape. 

Step 4: Apply glue on the tip of the strip.

Step 5: Now you can create various shapes by pinching at various side and create lovely shapes.

After learning the basic shapes now lets create quilling flowers

Step 1: create 5 to 6 shapes of same style 

Step 2: stick the shapes in a circular form \ join them together 

Step 3: now create a circle a tight one and then stick it on the top of the flower

Step 4: Take green colour strip and make leaves for the flowers by pinching on both the sides of the circle.

Now stick the flower on an envelope and you can use it as a gift envelope.

Create various colourful shapes and flowers and  and create beautiful cards and envelopes.