Something I have always wanted to try with my Cricut is making paper flowers. I have seen the paper flowers used on cards, in shadow boxes, as bouquets, and in many other projects. For ideas check out this website https://colormecrafty.net/paper-flowers/. I will be making a 3D piece of art using the paper flowers.
For this project I needed: card stock, tweezers, a hot glue gun, and the LightGrip mat. I paid $1 for the 3D flower image in Cricut Design Space as there were no free ones I liked. Cutting out the flower image went well. After I took them off the mat they looked like this:
For the first one I used the tweezers to pinch the outer end of the pattern. I then twirled the paper around, keeping it tight as I went around. When I reached the final circle part, I bended it back, added hot glue then pressed it against the rest of the swirled paper. The result is below. I thought the first one was a bit loose so I did the next three with my fingers, not the tweezers, as I felt I had more control that way.
I think the flowers turned out well. I will say that they are time consuming, it took about 20 minutes to make four flowers. After I finished the flowers, I drew stems on a piece of paper and glued the flowers on. The result is the picture below.
I think it was a cute idea for a picture but I should have made the flowers bigger so they filled up the paper. Overall I am happy with the results. If I did this project again I would try to find a faster way to make the flowers because they take a while and made my fingers hurt a bit.
27 February 2022 at 5:44 pm
Hello, Kasey.
The flowers look pretty–I realise they were time-consuming, but they give a nice, dense petal pattern, like that of a rose. I think combining them with the drawing on paper was really cute, as well, but I bet having a whole class do these would allow some sophisticated decorations to be put together, especially with the labour being spread across the entire group.
I wonder if you meant to use “bended” (3rd paragraph, 3rd line, 1st word) or if the auto-correct put it in there. It was underlined with a red dashed line by the spell-checker as I typed it here in the comments, but perhaps you copied in from a word processor document (my TextEdit programme’s spell-checker allows it). “Bended” is an archaic past tense for “bend,” nowadays only seen in phrases like “on bended knee.” The modern past tense is “bent.”
7 March 2022 at 12:22 pm
Hi Emmanuel,
I agree that it would be fun to have students make their own paper flowers and use them to decorate the room.
As for bended, I did mean bent. It did not show up in my word processor and I did not think to look up what the past tense of bend was.
-Kasey