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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Wire Flower Tutorial





Did you like the flowers I created for the challenge at Let's get Shabby??? well if you did here are the instructions.

What you need:
Floral wire
Glue
Ribbon
Glimmer Mist or Alcohol ink
Scissors
Candle or liquid Fray
Patience

Here are the steps:
1. Determine the size of flower you want and figure out how big you want the petals to be. I made mine using around 4" of wire but it's totally up to you. The best thing to do is to play with different sizes.
2. Create a petal using the floral wire.
3. Glue the floral wire to ribbon and let it dry for at least 2 hrs. Make sure the wire is completely glued to the ribbon. After two hours or so cut around the wire.
4. Carefully "run" petals using a candle or use fraying glue.
5. Ink or mist petals with Tattered Angels glitter mist or Tim Holtz ink
6. Gather 2 petals, twist; then gather 3 more twist. Put the two groups together and done!
7. Now for the fun part...embellish you flower(s) with pearls, buttons, glitter or just about anything...


8 comments:

Axes DesigNs said...

Mira que bellas quedaron ... muy bonitas flores ... gracias por el tutorial!

Toni said...

Leslie, These flowers are beautiful & thank you so much for showing us how to make them!!! I'm going to have to give it a try!!! Beautiful lo & thanks for playing with us at SHABBY!!!

karlabaccita said...

que bonitas flores, aquí no he visto esos sprays de color :( pero se ve re chulo, supongo que podría usar cintas de colores. saluditossssssssss

PaMi said...

Woooow que bellas flores :D me encanto y como dices que pacienciaaa!! :D gracias por el tutto!!

☼ Carolina ☼ said...

lindo! gracias!!
quedan súper lindas!!
un abrazo
c@

Sandra Perdomo said...

Leslie , esas flores estan hermosas , voy a tratar de hace unas a ver como me quedan , gracias por el tutorial

nenaKoss said...

leslie ke buen tuto y el resultado es fantastico!!!! esta hermoso tienes mucha creatividad muchas gracias por compartirla con nosotros

Jess said...

Leslie, preciosas las flores, gracias por el tutorial.

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