Can you believe this is our 140th challenge? Wow, time flies. {{I wish that # was my weight...ha}}
Dee asked us to use patterned paper as our card base for this challenge. I used Cosmo Cricket paper and placed a felt flower on the leafy vine print. Some alpha stickers, green felt leaves and a scalloped border finished it off. I'm not sure you could get much easier than this.
The other day I was chatting by email with my friend Marlou and we were talking about these flower dies and she mentioned that rolling them in felt is finicky. I hadn't tried felt yet but yes she was right. My big fat fingers didn't work well so I wanted to show you what I came up with.
I totally recommend using a quilling tool when using patterned paper but felt won't fit into it. I happen to have these little metal clips which I bought to make my nieces some ribbon hair clips {{um, yeah, that hasn't happened yet}}. Anywho....they worked great.
Just clip it onto the outside edge.
Then start rolling it away from you.
Once you get to the end you can loosen the rose up a bit with your fingers. I used a few stitches through the bottom to hold it together as well as a big glue dot. Once the flower was how I liked it then I removed the metal clip. It works great to tighten the centre of the rose too if you find it's gotten too loose.
So there ya have it. Hope that little tip helps some of you out. Oh btw....I was over at Wendy's the other night and just found out that MFT has 2 smaller sizes of these rose dies. OMG I love! She let me borrow it till I can get my own. Thanks GF - I can't wait to make even tinier rolled flowers!
