Thursday, September 2, 2010

Denim Flower...Learn from practice.

So a few things went wrong with my first attempt at a fabric flower. First was, I thought I cut a 2" circle ( I know 4" looks nothing like 2 but..) so it was a bit big but thats okay. I also did not use quick dry glue as Donna Downey uses in her tutorial so it wanted to unspun (new word) itself. Hot glue did the trick.
I do like the seed bead center (I have a lot of these!)
Helmar glue has already been shipped to my house
thank god so when i return from vaca I can make more.  I also realized its twisted to much not a nice overlay as the Donna Downey shows, but with practice i will get there! I will do a muslin one next.  I'm learning...
http://donnadowney.typepad.com/simply_me/2010/07/ins.html   (the tutorial link)

19 comments:

  1. Oh neat! I just made these exact same flowers too! After the 6th one I think things finally started to look right! hahaha

    I love how yours came out!!!

    YAY for Donna!

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  2. TY TY that means so much to me..I had her link bookmarked and then also saw that you also had a link to it. I have been dying to do it since she posted and of course after her new post i want to use my crayons!!!

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  3. sorry it wasn't letting me add the link to click on so this was the best i could do :)

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  4. These came out AWSOME!! LOVE THE DENIM!!!

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  5. Thanks for joining our blog party over at Sassy Sites! I always love to see the fun blogs and cute stuff that everyone is working on! Come back next Friday... xoxo

    I love the denim!!

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  6. I love making these and YES - Helmar Quick Dry is TOTALLY the way to go! I love the denim! This looks great!

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  7. Now that is cute!! Glad you kept working at it because it turned out so great. THank you thank you for linking it up. Happy weekend to you. :)

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  8. I had given up on trying to make these pretty but you have inspired me to keep trying!

    I am your newest follower. Have a great weekend.

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  11. This is sooo nice. You did a great job. Love the demin idea.

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  12. I love the denim flower!! Helmar's is the best! Can't wait to see the muslin one next!!

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  13. Luv luv the flower, I do find you have to keep practicing to make them that tight..
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    Maggie
    http://cuttingabove.blogspot.com

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  14. So cute! I'm your newest follower from the blog hop. Feel free to come on over and follow me back!

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  15. This is adorable. I have yet to try these.
    Thank you for the sweet comment you left on my blog.

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  17. Very cute.

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