It's Monday and that means it's time for another fun tutorial and challenge from one of our Design Team members! This week, Lizzie's sharing her tips for creating felt flowers! Many of you asked for this one and she was happy to oblige! Enjoy!
If you are joining along this week, here are the details concerning the Make It Monday Challenge.
–A new Make It Monday Challenge will go up every Monday morning at 9am EST.
–Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and a felt flower.
–Please enter new projects only.
–Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).
–-Add your project to our InLinkz list below. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PLEASE.
–You will have until 6am, Monday, May 29, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win.
–One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, May 29, after 6am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get a $25 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!
Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your projects!
- DIES: Flower Mandalas 1 Die, Flower Mandalas II Die, Leaf Silhouettes Die, Happiness In Bloom Leaves Die, Easter Grass Die
- OTHER: Felt: Pure Poppy, Vintage Cream, Harvest Gold, Melon Berry, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, Simply Chartreuse, Spring Moss; Hot Glue; Wood-Frame Magnet Board; Magnets
Some people (me) are allergic to wool so we don’t have felt. The Challenges should not include something that I wouldn’t have under any circumstance.
What a great video!!!!! Love the flowers you made with Kay’s die! I enjoyed seeing how you made the pink flower without the die! Thanks !
Now that was a fun video to watch and then to think of all the flower and leaf dies I have that could make different flowers! For Vicki in the above post, try the flowers in paper or fabric and build your dimension. May not have the flexibility but will still be beautiful.Thank you, Lizzie for that wonderful post!
LOVED this video! Lizzie you are so creative! Thank you, thank you for sharing this process with us.
Thanks for the video! I am waiting for the Mandalas II so I can get started on a wreath.
I love the magnet board and think they will make the perfect gift for 7 teachers!!
Such lovely flowers—I can hardly wait to make some! Thanks so much for showing all the how-tos in your video 🙂
One of the requirements for the challenge is a “Felt Flower”. I can make some with Ribbon, but the requirement is felt.
HOW PRETTY!!! This shows JUST HOW GREAT the PTI dies are! You can use them for more than cutting out stamped images! 😉 BEAUTIFUL WORK LIZZIE!!! 😉 I LOOOVED YOUR WREATH & THIS magnet board too! 😉
Vicki, you could always try creating with Eco-felt (the type sold at big-box craft stores). It can be harder to cut, but putting a piece of typing paper between the felt and the cutting plate can help (so your sandwich would be: cutting plate, paper, felt, die, top plate). It gives the die something to really sink into and it can often do the trick. I hope that helps you and you decide to give it a try. Good luck!
Beautiful flowers. So creative. I wouldn’t have thought to use the mandala dies this way but I may have to order some so I can give this a try. Thanks for sharing!
Such a cute project, Lizzie! I don’t have the Mandala dies…yet…but I think I might have a few other flower dies that would work! 🙂
Thank you, Lizzie! I loved watching your video, and I can’t wait to make some of these. Thank you for taking the time to include that super cute “mum” that doesn’t require a die. I also like what you did to give the flat leaves some dimension.
So fun! Love the flowers you made!
You can buy polyester felt almost anywhere.
Lizzie, what a lovely variety of flowers you created. I can’t wait to try this technique and use up some of my felt! Thanks so much for such a great video!
Lizzie I love your idea. I have had my eye on the mandala dies since they were released and now I have a perfect reason to purchase. I can’t wait to get started. All of you crafters are so wonderful to help out Vicki…I too have a wool allergy and find that wearing surgical gloves does the trick or like Joyce mentioned, polyester felt is a great alternative and is super cheap at Walmart or joanns. Happy crafting everyone!
Great video Lizzie How fun to watch you make these flowers. I love making flowers. This was a fun challenge One thing I would have loved to see in the video is you running the felt through so we could see how the dies worked on the felt. I like to see the techy stuff. Still an awesome video Lizzie thanks for the challenge
Fantastic fun, thank you so much for sharing, Lizzie!
Love, love, love the flowers!!!! TFS
Gorgeous flowers! I am not quite the expert that Lizzie is with her hot glue gun! I think using these to make a spring wreath would be so pretty.
These are very beautiful, Lizzie! I love felt flowers and now want to go play.I definitely don’t have your hot glue gun skills, and I haven’t any of those dies, but I must have something I can use:) How fun!
Thanks for much for sharing this video/tutorial with us! I had so much fun creating some felts flowers. Can’t wait to play around more when I have time. I now need to get some more felt 🙂
Gorgeous flowers and project, LOVE, LOVE!!
Creative designs. Makes my heart mellow. 😉
This idea is just amazing. Surely, I am going to try this. Many thanks for sharing. Love……..XOXO
Great idea! Thanks for sharing. Those would be great to decorate the frames of the hanging succulent gardens we make in our flower shop.