As most of you all know, I love making paper flowers! What the most addictive part about making them is coloring the petals. I love mixing colors to achieve a nice detailed and fresh look to my flowers. I crave challenges and love getting my fingers messy. I wanted to challenge myself to create a flower out of someone else’s template and Chantal had the perfect book to do just that! If you don’t know Chantal, she is a Canadian paper floral artist and is the owner of Paper and Peony. She wrote a book called “Bold and Beautiful Paper Flowers“, that shows you easy ways to create some fabulous flowers. Since I am not a newbie I wanted to take her templates and create something that wasn’t in the book. I want to show you that these templates have endless possibilities for them. Another challenge of mine that I love doing is to see how many flowers I can create using one simple template. This is a perfect example of how it is done by adding a few more tricks to them.
As most of you all know, I love making paper flowers! What the most addictive part about making them is coloring the petals. I love mixing colors to achieve a nice detailed and fresh look to my flowers. I crave challenges and love getting my fingers messy. I wanted to challenge myself to create a flower out of someone else’s template and Chantal had the perfect book to do just that! If you don’t know Chantal, she is a Canadian paper floral artist and is the owner of Paper and Peony. She wrote a book called “Bold and Beautiful Paper Flowers“, that shows you easy ways to create some fabulous flowers. Since I am not a newbie I wanted to take her templates and create something that wasn’t in the book. I want to show you that these templates have endless possibilities for them. Another challenge of mine that I love doing is to see how many flowers I can create using one simple template. This is a perfect example of how it is done by adding a few more tricks to them.
For this flower, I used in her book, pattern numbers: P-10, P-12, L-03, L-07 and L-04
Here is the formula for the flower:
- P-10: 3
- P-12: 1
- L-03: 1
- L-07: 2
- L-04: 3
For the center of the flower (stamen), I used eight 1″ circle cutouts. I actually used a hand punch to quickly get them done. The cardstock was from the Recollection pack – Citrus (65ld weight). I used the baby yellow for P-10 and the sunshine bright yellow for P-12. The 1″ circles were punched out of kraft cardstock which is also a recollection brand. The leaves were cut out of a medium green color cardstock that I got in the open stock section of Hobby Lobby.
After you cut out all the petals and leaves, we get to have some fun playing with color. I love playing with PanPastels and have been using them to color my flowers for several years. I also love ColorBox inks but that’s for another tutorial post!
Panpastel recipe:
P-10 Petals:
250.5 Diarylide Yellow
680.5 Bright Yellow Green
280.8 Orange Tint
100.5 titanium White
P-12 PetalsSame as P-10; adding:
340.1 Permanent Red Ex, Dark
1″ Circles
340.1 Permanent Red Ex, Dark
250.5 Diarylide Yellow
680.5 Bright Yellow Green
Extra fine tip pen (tan)
L-07 & L-03
680.3 Bright Yellow Green Shade
250.5 Diarylide Yellow
100.5 titanium White
430.1 Magenta Extra Dark
L-04:
680.3 Bright Yellow Green Shade
250.5 Diarylide Yellow
100.5 titanium White
340.1 Permanent Red Ex, Dark
Since this was a project that I created in the middle of the night, I do not have step by step pictures. SORRY! However, I will go into some details on how I made the flower.
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P-10 Petals:
I colored the center with 250.5 Diarylide Yellow. I started in the middle and pushed the color out into each petal. I only moved the color halfway up the petals. I then took 680.5 Bright Yellow Green and add it to one side of each petal and on the other side, I added 100.5 titanium White, blending them in the middle of each petal with my sponge. I tipped the ends of the petals with 280.8 Orange Tint. You can find in the book how to curl the petals by using Chantal’s simple curling method. Then adding a downward curl to the sides.
P-12 Petals:
Doing the same as P-10 but going back in the middle and blending a small amount of 340.1 Permanent Red Ex, Dark.
1″ Circles:
Cutting small slits in the sides and curling them up, Then layering them. Then taking two of the curls and going the opposite way and bunching the edges up so it forms a ball-like structure.
L-07, L-03, and L-04:
Starting at the bottom of the leaves with 680.3 Bright Yellow Green Shade I pushed the color up into the most of the leaves. tapering off as I passed the half waypoint. Going along one side of the edge of each with 250.5 Diarylide Yellow blending a little with 100.5 titanium White. I also went heavy at the tips with 100.5 titanium White. I then went to the opposite side of each leaf and added 680.3 Bright Yellow Green Shade. Blending in the middle of the two colors.
I tipped the edges of the sides with 340.1 Permanent Red Ex, Dark. For L-07 I added a heavy stroke of 430.1 Magenta Extra Dark. Only pushing it a little bit up into the leaf. I didn’t want an overwhelming amount of it on my leaf.
I hope this recipe gets you pointed in the right direction and cooking up some ideas on how to reach beyond the templates. I had a lot of fun creating this flower and I hope to show you a lot more real soon! Don’t forget to subscribe to the website to keep up to date on new items in the store, classes and more of these fabulous blog post. Also, let me know what you think of this recipe, would love to read your comments <3
Please check out Chantal’s book, Bold and Beautiful Paper Flowers over at her website: www.paperandpeony.com
When sharing your work that you have used from her book, please give her a shout out. Giving credit to the original artist is not only showing love but respecting her hard work and dedication that she put into the book. She wants you to embellish your life with these fabulous flowers and have fun. She would also like for you to join her facebook group where others like yourself are showing off their beautiful flowers and interacting with her.
Have fun and see you back here soon!
DISCLAIMER
© Anna Fearer and More Paper Than Shoes, 2008 – 2019. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Anna Fearer and More Paper Than Shoes with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
