Make a Flower Friday (except on a Monday)

Hey Everybody!

Today is make a flower Friday, except that it is Monday. I could say that I'm posting the flower tutorial today because I am a rebel that way, or because I like to go against the grain, or something equally clever. Truth is that Patrice and I were really busy this weekend, and I slacked off on the blog post on Friday. Please don't hold it against me though!

To make up for my slackerness, I am posting what is quite possibly one of my favorite flowers. It is super easy to make and you can make lots of slight changes to get a big change in the look of your flower. You'll need a strip of felt, a pair of scissors and you'll need a liquid adhesive (I used beacon's 3 in 1) or a hot glue gun.

Here is my felt strip:

Before anybody says anything, let me tell you that yes, this strip is orange and it is a much brighter color than I am accustomed to. The only other color of felt I have lying around is pink though, and we all know how I feel about that. ;)  Next we need to add glue all along one edge of the felt and fold it in half.  I used Beacon's here but could have used my glossy accents if I could have found it in my scrap room.

Press that down really well and allow it do dry a bit.

Here comes the fun part, take your scissors and cut into the folded end. Cut a straight line into the felt about a third of the way in. Here is where you can get crazy with it. Your flower will look slightly different depending on how close together your cuts are, how you cut into the felt (for example if you cut slightly diagonal lines rather than straight ones). For our example, I just did it the regular way. I cut about every quarter inch.

Now start rolling up your strip of felt, gluing down every few rolls.

When you are done, all your little cuts will make a puffy looking felt flower like so:

Cute huh? (And I don't usually do cute, but this flower I love in spite of myself)

Let me know if you try it out, and especially let me know if you discover any really neat variations, since I haven't tried any myself yet.

Thanks for stopping by everybody!