CTMH Art Philosophy Flower tutorial day 2

Hello, friends!

Today I have a tutorial on how to give your 3D flowers a WOW factor. There are several ways to do this and today I am going to show you 5. Now there is definitely lots more than 5, but this will give you a starting point.

All flowers used for this tutorial was cut out at 3 1/2" using the CTMH ART PHILOSOPHY cartridge. If you are interested in buying this FABULOUS cartridge click here==> Melanie's Close To My Heart site 


I had a question yesterday about how long this cartridge will be priced at $99, so I thought I would address this at this time. I do not know of any sales on this cartridge or price change until the next catalog comes out. Now that does not mean a price change will occur then, but typically the prices in the catalog do not change until the new catalog comes out. To simplify, this is most likely the price for the next 6 months.

Now on to the tutorial...

First lets talk about inking. I actually ink all of my flowers. I did not ink yesterday's because I wanted to make it as simple as possible. Inking gives the flower a more realistic look.

To ink you will need:

a sponge

and some ink

Then all you do is load up your sponge with the ink and darken the edges of the spiral before you roll it. I recommend inking both sides.

You are left with this which is kind of hard to see in this picture, but it has a nice mix of light and dark shades.

Here is a photo of the flower we made yesterday and the flower we just made. They are both made using the same color of cardstock. Notice the color difference?

Next tutorial is going to be glimmer misting. To so this you will need some glimmer mist and a flower that is already made.

I like to have a small box lined in paper towels to do my glimmer misting in. Then I just lay the item in the box and generously spray the glimmer mist. It will need to dry a bit, but before that it is good to move the petals around a little more because your flower is very pliable while it is wet.

Your end result is a slightly glittered flower. The effect is very subtle, but beautiful!

The next tutorial is glittering. Now this can be done many ways for many different types of effects. For this flower, I simply added liquid glass to the edges of the flower and then dipped it in glitter.

This is the result!

The next tutorial is adding adhesive backed pearls or buttons to the center of your flowers. You can use anything you have on hand. I used these pearls from Close To My Heart.

and this is the result...I want to say something else about this particular flower. If it was cut large it would be an excellent bow for a gift!

The final tutorial for today is adding dew drops to your flowers using the liquid glass. This is super simple to do and looks great when it is dry!

Also with this last flower I rolled the edges with my fingers before it was made.It looks like this.

When you are done this is the result.

and here is the flower with LOTS of dew drops. Perhaps it has just rained ;-)

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Tomorrow's tutorial is showing you how to use the supplies you get with the ART PHILOSOPHY bundle. I call it CUT-STAMP-ELEVATE!

I look forward to seeing you all back here tomorrow!

Have a TREMENDOUS Tuesday!

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