Would you like to learn how to make flowers from negative die cuts from the Brass and Bliss Round Petals Cover die?
When I first cut out the Brass and Bliss Round Petal Cover die I saw an opportunity to show you the simple steps for how to make flowers from negative die cuts. I added foliage using the leaves from the Stackable Flowers and Leaves #1 to complete the arrangement.
Card Base and Cover
- Use white cardstock to cut an A2 sized card base and the Round Petal Cover.
- Apply strips of mounting tape to the back of the frame borders and small pieces of mounting tape to the back of a few key spots. Pro Tip: Adding pieces of mounting tape to several spots on the cover to keep it from collapsing on the card base.
- Attach the cover to the card base.
Form the Flowers
- Apply color to the petals using Color Fuse Ink #5 and detail blending brushes. Note: I’m sorry that I failed to take pictures of the coloring step.
- Place the petals face down on the molding pad and form them using a large round stylus.
- Bend one corner of the petal.
- Punch out a 1/4″ circle to use for the flower base.
- Attach the petals to the circle base using flossy accents.
- Apply glossy accents to the back of the flowers and attach them to the cover base.
- Use green cardstock to cut the leaves from the Stackable Flowers and Leaves #1.
- Gently bend the leaves with your fingers, tuck them in behind the flowers and attach using glossy accents.
- Attach negative die cut circles to the flower centers. Pro Tip: I keep the negative circles cut from my eyelet border dies to use as flower centers, snowflakes, etc.
Are you inspired to take a second look at negative die cuts? I sure am.
Here are the products I used to make this project:
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I have enjoyed showing you how to make flowers from negative die cuts and I hope you are inspired to look at your dies in a new way.
so clever and so pretty too!
Very pretty. Great use of the negative pieces to make the lovely flowers!