Wacky Wednesday - Turning Canvas Patches into Flowers
September 16, 2009 by Kimmi
Hello everyone! Â Today I’m gonna show you how I create these fun little flowers using the canvas patches from the Amber Road collection. Â For one of my projects during CHA Summer, I used a piece of one of the patches to create a partial flower for a layout, Â and using that idea, I wanted to create a little flower embellishment set, all from just one piece of canvas.
This is the layout from CHA Summer, Farm Fun, using a cut strip from the canvas…I love the texture and dimension that the canvas gives this layout. Â You can also see that I cut another small strip in the right hand corner, fraying the edges, as another accent behind the clear border sticker.
and here is the little hanging card/magnet holder that I created for this month’s blog post.
The first thing that I did was cut my canvas patch into three strips. Â I cut mine at different widths to create three different sized flowers. Â The largest is roughly 1 3/4 inches wide, the second about 1 inch and the smallest at 1/2 inch wide. The next thing is to hand stitch along one edge of the strip, then pull your thread tight. Â I tied off a simple knot to finish off the flower. Â Basically the same thing as a ribbon flower. For a little more texture, I frayed the edges up a bit by pulling some loose threads.
After I had the canvas part done, I used some of the circle elements from the Postcards patterned paper and some punched shapes from the coordinating papers to layer my flowers together, securing the layers with a brad. Â The only other thing that I added to my flowers were magnets. Â I bought a pack of magnets from my local craft store and adhered one the the back of each of my flowers.
After creating the hanging card using patterned paper and some of the Punchouts and Press Ons, I secured my flower magnets onto the card, using additional magnets on the back of the card to hold the flowers temporarily in place. Â This way, the magnets can be removed and you still have a pretty little card hanger.
And there you have it. Â A nice little gift for a special someone or a fall decoration for your own home to start off the fall season. Â (Makes me want hot cocoa…if only it weren’t still almost 90 degrees!)
well that is perfect!!! I just started diving into my WHOLE Amber Road Collection! Perfect!! I might just do something different with each canvas patch!
Thanks!
And beautiful projects, btw!
BEAUTIFUL projects Kimmi!! Your detailing is always such eye candy! Thanks for the tutorial….it is so great & clear!
Your projects are GORGEOUS Kimmi!
The canvas flowers are gorgeous! You’re so creative. On your Farm Fun page, I also love the way you did the strip journaling nestled in between the border-edge punched cardstock. Great ideas - thanks for sharing!
These are incredible!!
Fantastic-now I have to buy 2 sets of the Twilight patches!
these are just gorgeous love them
love this idea! they are so pretty!
I love this idea.
thanks for sharing these projects and ideas… they are absolutely stunning!
Lovely layout and the tutorial was great! so inspirational - benne wanting to do something “useful” with my amber road papers - just regret I didn’t pick up those brads now - hehe~ TFS! xox
Really GORGEOUS, Kimmi!!! All of these projects are just fabulous!
Gorgeous projects, Kimmi! Love your little flower tutorial!
acks!! That’s such a cool idea, Kimmi!! The flowers are the cutest things!!
[...] I’ve had a few people ask about ideas for the canvas tags/patches in the kit. As you can see above, I did a half flower in the Explore layout. You can also see some like these: at the Pink Paislee site with instructions on how to make them found here: http://pinkpaislee.com/2009/09/wacky-wednesday-turning-canvas-patches-into-flowers/ [...]