Happy Fall, Y'all!

Hi! I'm Practical Scrapper Wendy Coffman from Stamping Rules!, here with a fun Fall project for y'all.  When I found this chevron print burlap canvas I knew it would be perfect for a pretty scrappy door "wreath", which is ready to start hanging around on my front door now that Fall is really here. I had originally planned to make it more Halloween themed, but then I saw the Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World and I was immediately inspired to change my whole game plan. We still have a lot of green around in fall up here in the PacNW...plus if you've seen my work before, you know I don't need much encouragement to add glitter and flowers to any project! 

So I hit my stash pretty hard for this project, using up bits and bobs of all kinds of materials to build my flowers. I've got a bit of chocolate felt border that I rolled up into a sweet rose. Layers of garden green and cream cardstock that I cut on my Cricut to layer into the biggest flowers, topped off with bling. I also cut the beige linen patterned paper and yellow cardstock for the 3-D rolled flowers on my Cricut. The leaves and vines are felt. I filled the rolled flowers with glitter and rhinestones, and tucked a little felt acorn in amongst the flowers and bling. I backed the wreath with a few layers of black tulle. 

I cut my sentiment on the Cricut as well, using a deep brown glitter paper. The upper letters are layered onto a cork diecut frame.  Most of the materials to build my wreath came from Close To My Heart. I found the burlap canvas at Joann's.  The sequins are from American Crafts. I attached everything using my hot glue gun so it'll be good and sturdy hanging on my sheltered front door. 

Now it's time to head off for another week of apple picking, sweater wearing, pumpkin spice everything fun. Happy Fall, Y'all!

Flowers and Twine...So Divine!

Hi Bev here today at Practical Scrappers. I am excited to do my 1st feature

to share with you. Over time I have learned to make many

flowers to add to my pages and here is just another one but

with so much twine available today here is my florals with added twine.

The above photo shows on the left the twine florals that I purchased

and on the right are the florals I made that were inspired by the others.

All different sizes and layers.... added twine and some buttons.

Twine on the bottom, middle, on top or through the buttons..

so many amazing options.

I took it one further on this layout with more integrate punched bases, fun

twine around and through along with the centre french knots on one.

They made a great cluster here with added buttons and bling.

This piece was much larger with single base and twine

and put a metal button on the centre.

On this section is a circle cut with a large centre circle cut out so I

could wind the twine around and around until it filled the full circle.

And this section I am sharing to show the twine flight path and the twine bow

that was tied around the matted piece behind my photo.

Thanks for joining me today and hope you'll try this method

of making your own twine florals. So easy and it allows

you to match to your paper collection.

Projects Using Flowers

Sorry for the delay all, but Happy Groundhog Day to everyone!! You all ready for six more weeks of winter? Well, if the sound of winter lasting six more weeks is depressing to you then today's post will cheer you up. Spring may not me as close around the corner as we hoped, but we have signs of flowers blooming here. Today we feature projects using flowers and what a garden of them we have. From ribbon flowers to Primas...rolled die cut to pre-made; there's enough different flowers here to make a few bouquets to keep you going until spring really does arrive.  Take a look at the arrangements our designers and readers have to share...

Brettaney Quinton

Details and close ups of the flowers can be found on Practical Scrapper Michelle's blog.

Practical Scrapper Kerri

 

Practical Scrapper Erin die cut flowers from her patterned paper, layered them with stickers from the same collection and added cork accents for a spin.

(before)

(after)  

Practical Scrapper Corinna altered a digital frame with patterned paper and Prima flowers and crystals.

Practical Scrapper Kerri used her Die-namics rolled roses dies from My Favorite Things to create all of her rolled flowers on this layout.  Psst...that paper is from our sponsor, Authentique, from their "Glowing" collection.

 Practical Scrapper Jayma
Book Page Wedding Bouquet, flowers cut from Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge

Practical Scrapper Lynn

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Border Punch Flower Tutorial

Welcome back to Practical Scrappers for another tutorial. Today Kim is sharing a quick and super easy tutorial for border punched flowers.

First, cut a 1 x 12 strip of paper, any patterned paper is great, then trim one side with a border punch. Ink if you like.

Next you will cut the right edge on a diagonal.

Here comes the fun part, begin accordian folding from left to right, you are making a cricle by working counter clockwise. You can make your folds as small or large as you like, play with the shape as you go, the paper is very forgiving and easy to work.

When you are happy with the shape of your flower, just trim away the extra (there will just be a teeny piece) and finish off with a brad, bling, button, or other fun embellishment. Adhere with a glue dot, pop dot, or your favorite adhesive.

Here is another look at the finished journal.

I know you ladies have tons of fabulous border punches that would make fantastic flowers. If you try one, please share it with us, we'd love to see yours!!!!!

Monday's Flower Projects

Kim used her Spellbinders die cuts and My Mind's Eye papers to create flowers,
crumpled them, used ink for the distressed look and finished them
off with a bling

Joni had this idea and used up a bunch of her flowers...then couldn't decide on a title. She realized that in the photo she chose, her son was tired of "posing" for pictures. Hence the title "too many posies" (a play on "poses") was created. Boys & flowers work well, don't you think?

Heidi included flowers as embellishments in 2 clusters framing the photos and with the cream flower trim.

Amanda made the flowers out of crepe paper streamers with some sticky gems in the centers for a touch of bling.

Jayma used large chipboard buttons as her flowers with cute ribbon for the stems.

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