PTI Blog Hop

This is my first PTI blog hop! The challenge this month is really fun, it's a gorgeous inspiration photo that totally reminded me of my daughter, princess all the way. I wanted to focus on the little dress up dresses in the photo and make a fluffy flower using tissue paper and the Mehindi Medallion stamp set. I  am really pleased with how it came out and put together a little tutorial for you if you'd like to make your own flower. Let's get started:)

First you stamp the largest medallion onto white tissue paper. It doesn't matter if the tissue paper is flat or wrinkled as you are going to wrinkle it for the petals. I used Raspberry Fizz ink and stamped 8 medallions to make my flower. After you stamp them all, you trim them out as closely as you can.

After they are all trimmed out you will be working with them one at a time, so one medallion equals one petal. Fold the medallion in half, you want to be sure the creased bottom is facing down.

Next, you are going to fold it in half again, but it's kind of more like pinch it in half. Keep some space between the two outside corners for the next step.

You are going to take those two outside edges in the prior step and fold them back and pinch them together, holding them in place.

You are then going to turn the petal toward you so the pinched edges you are holding face behind and you have formed a petal. You can kind of pinch the bottom of the petal together and fluff out the middle, since it's tissue paper it is very easy to get it to mold to what you want.

To attach the petals and start forming your flower I cut a Doily Details and used Scotch quick dry glue to glue them down. Again, since it's tissue paper the wet glue works really well and sticks right away. I positioned my petals so that the scalloped edge of the die still shows adding to my finished flower. You glue all the petals down in the same way.

Once I had all my petals glued down I wanted to add a center. You will too as it doesn't look very pretty with all the petal ends showing ;) I stamped one of the smaller medallions onto some cream cardstock and trimmed it out and with a pop dot adhered it to the middle. To finish my flower I added a pearl.

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial, if you did I'd love to hear from you! Thanks so much for stopping by:)