Felt Flower Ornaments

Stephanie over at Under The Table and Dreaming has been kind enough to share this fabulous flower tutorial with us.
She used the flowers to make wonderful tree ornaments, but I made several of these as hat clips and hair clips...
Thanks Stephanie!
Felt Flower Ornament 

Felt Flower Ornament

Materials Needed:Felt
Clean Metal Jar Lid
Ribbon
Embellishments {glitter}


Begin by making a template for the petals. I used a 1 1/2 inch circle punch to cut a circle out of cardstock, slightly trimming off one end. {You can also hand cut a circle if you do not have a punch}

Trace your template onto a piece of felt and cut out. I needed 11 petals of this size for the 2 1/2 inch diameter lid that I used.


Prepare your clean jar lid by drilling a hole into the side for the hanger. Hot glue the petals around the outer edge of the lid.


Take your original cardstock template and trim a little more off the bottom, just about a 1/4 inch. Trace and cut 15 more petals of this size.


Continue hot gluing overlapping the first layer of petals.


When you get to the center you will have to trim the last two petals to fit; folding and tucking them in.


Embellish the center if you like. I place a dab of hot glue and sprinkled PK Glitter Glitz in Silver on top; Let sit to dry and dust off the access.


Finish off by threading the cut ribbon through the drilled hole for the hanger.

Felted Rose's

 Adding this Tutorial to my flower power collection was a must.
Ellen, from Ellen's Creative Passage in Columbia Missouri has a very detailed, helpful tutorial on her blog about making these flowers and a beautiful wreath that she created using the flowers.
The directions belong to Ellen, but the pictures are my efforts at making the flowers. These are definitely keepers, and I will be making more of them!

 Felted Flowers

Supplies needed:  hot glue gun and glue sticks, scissors, circle patterns (I used bowls), felt (I use wool felt, but you could also use regular felt), and a marking pen

Start by making circles all over your felt...

(Amber used regular felt which is lighter weight)

Now cut out on the inside of the marked line.  You can also just free hand the circles like I do, but I thought I would show you the scientific way to do it!

Now you have your circles all cut out for each of the flowers...

I drew on this circle to show you generally how I cut mine out.  I usually do not mark each circle like this, I just free hand cut each one.  You want to start cutting at the outside of the circle and spiral in toward the center, leaving a larger circle in the center which will become the back of the rose.

 

This is what you have now...

Next pick up the outside or the pointy end of the felt

and begin rolling it up keeping the bottom flat...

keep rolling until you are close to the circle you left...

and this is what you have.  

 

Adjust the circle so that it covers the bottom of the rolled area.  You can see that I made my circle too small, so I am laying part of the cut area on the back of my rose to cover it all.

Now add some hot glue to the flat back area and attach the circle to cover the back.

Now it actually looks like a rose...

Now trim the excess on the petals to even it out.  I don't always make it really even, because I want a more natural look (yes, even though they are blue roses!).

Now look at the edge of the bottom of  the rose.  It will probably look really uneven...

Trim off the excess with your handy dandy scissors...

Ta-Da!!  You have a finished rose!! 

Here is what I made with my 3 flowers...

 

 

And here is what Ellen made over on HER BLOG for a truly fantastic and much more detailed tutorial along with the instructions on how to make this fabulous wreath!

 

Paper Flowers with tute!

I loved this project tutorial and it's endless possibilities, so I gave it a test run...the results are something I can actually show off! This is really simple to do, and pretty fun, and something your children can help with...

As always, a super big thanks to Nicole at madebynicole.blogspot.com for her awesome tute.

Paper Flower Tutorial

This is so easy it feels almost silly to make a tutorial on it but just in case you aren't familiar with the technique, here goes:
(My comments and notes will show in parenthesis)
1. Get ten pieces of thin (not card stock) two sided paper - anything from newspaper to fancy patterned paper works. I used book pages

(I used book pages as well-mine had pictures...lol)


2. Stack them up and cut out a circle.
(I used a 2 1/2" paper punch-too lazy to cut circle's, and my free form circles usually look more like eggs) 

(my circles)

3. Cut spokes into the paper. I made this pic big so you can see what I mean.

4. When you're done it should look like this

(My spokes were not great, but they worked!)

5. Separate you circles. This step is vital as it won't fluff if they're stuck together

(My pile of petals)

6. Re-stack pile

7. Staple through the center of the stack

When you're done it should look like this:

8. Don't panic. I want you take your nice little stack and crumple it in your fist. Trust me, it'll be okay.

(My fat little hand crushing away)

9. Now do it again a few times

(This isn't too hard...)

10. Voila! You did it! Told you it was easy!

11. But we're not done yet. Find the back of the staple. You might lose some petals doing this - no biggie.

12. Press the back of the staple side down against your table to make a flat bottom

 
(As you can see, Nicole's tutorial is fabulous. I followed her directions and took the same types of photo's and by dang it worked!!)

(This is my flower, with a button placed in the center. It's not completed because I still need to add the thread to the button, but you get the drift, right?)

HERE IS A PHOTO WITH SOME OF THE FLOWERS NICOLE HAS MADE...BE SURE TO CHECK OUT HER BLOG POST FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COLOR YOUR FLOWERS, AND GREAT IDEA'S AND USE'S FOR THESE ADORABLE FLOWERS!!!

Flower Pom Poms

 I have found another awesome DIY flower tutorial! There are several excellent versions of this flower floating around the blogosphere (including a different post I have here on this blog), but this is so simple and straight forward, and the pictures are excellent! We have 

Katie from Food, Wine and Mod Podge

to thank for this awesome post!

Pom Pom Fabric Flowers

I've been seeing these cute flowers all over blogland/DIYland/Etsy lately. They're so fun and full, and I was dying to find out how to make them!
Then I stumbled upon the Pom Pom Flower Tutorial at A Glimpse Inside, and I could hardly wait to make one myself!
The best part of these flowers is that they are the perfect use for scrap fabric! You just need a long strip, that's all! I highly recommend you hop over to A Glimpse Inside for the full step-by-step instructions.

See? Yay for easy and fabulous!

Fire Flowers!

Jamielyn at I heart naptime is so talented. I absolutely loved this fast and fabulous flower tutorial.  She has made some darling clothing and accessories just by adding this fabulous flowers! These FIRE FLOWERS definitely belong on our FLOWER POWER list!  Click on the link below to see how she created these fab flowers!  Thanks Jamielyn!

fire flowers! 

This is another project JamieLyn created using the same how-to...

Lovely Rolled Flowers

  Stephanie for UNDER THE TABLE AND DREAMING has been a part of our blog several times. She has the most amazing idea's and crafts! We love visiting her for inspiration and dang great idea's! Here is another flower tutorial that we LOVE!!! 

Rolled Flower Gift Toppers

Here is a quick and easy way to add a little charm to your gift packages.

I know a lot of bloggers have extra book pages from all the fabulous paper projects floating around. Here is a way to use some of those scraps so that nothing goes to waste! You can also make these with scrapbook paper, cardstock, fabric and of course felt as shown above.

You want to start with a square shape. I used three sheets together to add a little volume. None of this has to be perfect...I promise...they will have character and charm even if you eyeball it!

Using a pencil or a light colored pen or crayon, you want to draw a spiral circle onto the square. I used a black marker just so that it would show up in the picture.

Next you want to cut out all the lines that you have drawn continuing until you come to the center of the spiral leaving a small circle at the end.

You'll be left with a long paper snake!

Starting with the outside of the spiral roll the paper inward in somewhat of a cone shape. You want to start off rolling tightly (which will become the center of your flower) then loosely once to get to the edges.

Keep rolling until you get to the end. You will want to put a dab of hot glue on the back to hold the shape. The circle that you left when cutting the spiral will finish the back. I cut it off on this paper flower to show you the roll; however you can see the circle in tact below with the felt.

I gently rubbed some Tim Holtz Distressed Ink (Antique Linen) on the edges of each flower for a worn look.

I simply attached them to the packages with a dab of hot glue and added some ribbon and hand cut felt leaves. For the tag I cut out an initial from a scrap page.

I followed the same process for the felt. It just happens to photograph better so here are some more pics!

Here is the end with the circle I was talking about. I filled the inner part of the flower with hot glue and folded over the circle for a finished look. This also helps to hold the flower together.