Materials…
- Inspire Me vellum paper
- Red Inspire Me metallic card
- Gold Inspire Me card
- Laura Ashley beads
- Gold 32-gauge wire
- Double-sided tape
- 3D foam squares
- Woodware 3-petal flower punch
To create…
1 Punch three flowers from the vellum paper. Shape the petals by placing them in the palm of your hand and gently rubbing your finger over each petal in a circular motion.
2 Place the petals on top of each other, spreading the petals round, and pierce seven holes in the centre.
3 Cut a 30cm length of wire. Starting at the back of the petals, thread through to the front, place a bead on the wire then thread back down through the same hole. Repeat this in the other six holes. Twist the wire in place at the back of the flower.
4 To form the leaves, cut 50cm of wire, fold in half then thread on one bead, letting it fall to the centre. Next thread on two beads and criss-cross the wires through both the beads. Pull both ends of the wire so that the two beads lay parallel with the first. 5 Repeat this technique on the following rows, increasing with a bead on each row till you have a row of five beads, then start to decrease on the next row until the final row has just one bead. Twist the ends of the wire together to secure.
6 Repeat the technique to make a second leaf, making it a smaller leaf by only increasing the beads up to four. When this is complete twist the wires of the two leaves together.
7 Cut out a square of gold card, pierce a hole in the card and thread the end wires at the back of the flower through. Hold these wires in place at the back of the card with double-sided sticky tape.
8 Make a further hole in the card underneath the petals and thread the beaded leaves through, again holding in place with double-sided tape. Use some 3D foam pads to secure the back petals of the flower.
9 Cut out a larger square of the red metallic card, matt the gold card on top then mount onto the white card blank.
Project by Michelle Saxon. Originally published in Creative Cardmaking issue 4.
