Tissue Paper Flower Tutorial

**Apologies for the bad photos. Bad lighting + bad camera + bad photographer = bad photos! hehe**

Hey!
Here is a quick tutorial for the tissue paper flowers which i've used a few times on my cards. I've had a few requests for a tut on these, so i hope this is useful, and sorry it's taken so long!

This is what they look like. If you want to see the full card, go here.

The instruction goes with the photo below.

What you'll need:

-Tissue paper (any colour or you can colour with copics/promarkers)

-Scissors

-Pokey Tool (or similiar)

-Brad

1) Fold your tissue paper 3 or 4 times

2) Cut out 4 different sized circles.

(you can do this with nesties/punches etc, and it doesn't matter if it's a perfect circle so scalloped circles or blossom nesties are fine)

You will end up with little piles of each size

3) Put the circles in a pile with the smallest on top, and poke through the whole lot with your pokey tool.

4) Insert a brad into the whole.

5) Starting from the middle, scrunch the circles around the brad and play about with it until you like how it looks.

Voila! A cut little flower :)

To make a bigger flower, you will need bigger circles and more layers.

There's tonnes of stuff you could do to make these extra special! Try inking the edges of each circle, adding glitter or spraying with coloured sprays. You can also put a dab of glue on the brad and bring the middle in so that it looks like a closed flower :) Just have fun!

And here's another card made with them a couple of months ago. You can find this card here :)

If anyone makes any of these, please let me know so i can come have a nosy! hehe

Thanks for looking

Rachel xx

Seniment Tutorial

Hey!

I've had a couple of comments and emails about how i make my sentiments, and (in Sarah's words) how i get all the fonts in the right places. So i've made a quick tutorial which i hope will help some of you :)

I'm using Microsoft Word (the old version) but you can use pretty much any program that lets you put text in a text box. So...here goes!

(the picture goes with the instruction above)

1. Open a new document, and type each word into a seperate text box, using the text box tool (red ring)

2. Make the text boxes transparent, by clicking on the 'Fill' tool, and clicking 'No Fill'

3. Make the text boxes have no line, by clicking on the 'Line' tool, and clicking 'No Line'

4. Change the fonts, sizes and colours to whatever you want

(I've used scriptina (swirly one) in size 32, and Accord Light SF in size 14) 5. Then you can move them around, until you are happy...and print!

I hope i've explained it right, and you understand...I am half asleep and just about to go to bed!!! :D

Oh...and by the way...i think i did ok in my exam :) Thanks for the good lucks :D
Thanks for stopping by,
Rachel xx