Tutorial for strips flowers

I was inspired by these fabric flowers from Pink Paislee. So easy to make myself, I thought!
I used patterned paper and decorative scissors and tried to copy them. For some reason they did not turn out pretty at all. :(



I made some changes and this is how they ended up looking;

You hardly need any instructions on how to make them, but here's a quick how-to anyways.

Cut thin strips of card stock or patterned paper. Use trimmer, normal scissors or decorative scissors. The strips can be any width and length. If the length is uneven doesn't matter. Just trim them later.
You can use as many strips as you like, but I would say use at least 8 of them.


Just glue the strips on top of each other.

Finish off with a button, brad, rhinestone or just a circle of matching paper.

Dress them up with Stickles or give them a distressed look with ink and roughing the edges with a scissors.

I like to gently bend the strips up a bit, for added dimension.

You can have all the strips the same length or do the top layer shorter as the Pink Paislee flowers.

Not gorgeous or anything, but they could definitively add something extra to a scrapbook page or card. And could it be any cheaper,easier and faster to make!!

Here is something that you will not see a tutorial on anytime soon. I made my first pop up card! Sorry to say; but it was a pain in the..you know what!!

I found instructions in a book and I think I read them about 10 times before I could even start. I'm so blond sometimes!!

I might give it another try some day, but not this week;)
If you look closely you can see some quilling in the flowers...that was the only easy part.

I hope some of you are up for a challenge. I planning to start my first challenge later this week, so see you soon!:)