A Quick Tutorial...

I have had a a few people ask me how I did the flower petals on THIS CARD, and so I thought I would just post a quick tutorial on how to make them. Let me first say that this was not my idea, it was in Octobers issue of Stampin' Success.

To start you will need 8 tags punched using the Tag Punch (you can also use the Small Tag Punch, but I don't have that one yet and this size works just fine. :)) and Designer Series Paper.
Fold each one in half vertically.
Fold the top layer open from the bottom-left corner to the top of the fold. Like the line I drew. :)
This is what you will get.

To make the flower you overlap each petal.
Glue them to a punched 1 3/8" circle.
When they are all attached you will have a sm. circle of cardstock showing.
Here is a finished flower. So cute!
Enjoy!
*Sorry there are so many pictures, I haven't figured out how to combine them yet. :)

A New Little Trick...

I did this card as one of my workshop cards during August, and long story short, I had a bunch of stuff leftover so I decided to just make them up to have ready when I needed one. :) Well, as I was putting all these cards together I got sick of using a bunch of glue dots and thought the circle would stay on better if it was stapled, but then I was still having to glue the bow on, so *click...on went the light bulb, 'why not staple it all on!' :) I'm sure that lots have you already do this, but I had never seen it, so I was so proud of myself that I thought of a shortcut and I wanted to share it with you. :)

First, I stapled the circle and twill tape to the flower piece.
Then, I just tied the twill tape around the staple.
The wide ribbons and twill tape hide the staple really well.
Here is the finished card...it was cased from Convention.
Then I wanted to try it with the 1/4" grosgrain, it works with a regular staple, but it slides around and shows the staple, which is fine sometimes, but sometimes you don't want the staple to show...so I was at Walmart and found a teeny tiny stapler and it works perfect for the 1/4" grosgrain! You can see the difference in sizes...
and how well the little staple is hidden.
Anyway, If you read all this, congrats, and like I said, its not a new thing, just new to me! :)