Tutorial - How I made the Flowers !

Hi Well here it is.  I took the time this morning and put it together.  Now this is the way I do it. I first want to say that I'm so sorry for it being so long.   Oh I want to add that the flower is from the Cricut Cartridge "Art Philosophy" the flower is on pages 68 & 69   Lets get started:

This is what I start with. the smallest dowels and the sizes 2 in flower, 3 in flower and a 4 in flower.  Plus rat tail comb and a glue stick.

When I'm ready to start I just start rolling the back side of the flower up on the tinyest part of the tail of the comb.

This doesn't take long at all to roll up as tight as you can on the tinyest part of the comb.  this is the 3 in flower and I want it tight so it looks like a rose bud.

After it is all rooled up then I fuff the flower to loose it up just a little then I set it up to be glued down.

Then after it is glued I like to hold it down for a few mintures just to make sure the flower will stay where I put it.

The finished Rose Bud (2 in)

Then I start the three inch just like you did the two inch.  Just keep using the comb on this one until it is done.

Then you glue the flower down and hold it until it is set then let it rest for a while before you move it.

Side view of the 2 and 3 inch flower.

This one is the 4 inch and I started with the comb and because I didn't want this one a tight.  After I started with the comb I took the comb out and finished rolling with my fingures. I was looking for a loose look of this flower.

This is the finished look of all three of them.  Started from left to the right is the 2 inch,  3 inch, and then the 4 inch.  I still want to try the small one and put it into the big  one and see what it turns out.  If I like it I will show you.

The things I used.

Thank you all for help and thank you for being my friends and coming by. If you like this please leave me a comment.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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Greetings to You.

The Holidays are fast coming upon us and I'm not ready for it. I don't have any of my Christmas Cards done for my family.  I'm having a hard time finding Christmas paper that I can afford to get to make them.  I also have to make some Christmas flowers for my cards on my Cricut.

But today I have two more cards to share with you.  I hope you will like them as well.

These roses are a 3 inch size rolled with the tiny end of a rat tail comb.  It makes it really tight and it stays that way so you can get the look that I want.  I love these and I'm going to be making more of these for a special saturday workshop that I have coming up.  I know the ladies will love making these this way.

This one is just another thinking of you card that would work for almost anything. I used rickrack that I found that I didn't know I had so I wanted to see what it would be like t o use it and I like it.  Also I just learned how to make a rosebud out of this and I think I will try that.

Thank you for coming by and I hope you like it.  It was so much fun for making these I love it.   Leave me a comment and tell me what you think.

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Sincerely
Donna Scrapp'n Nana
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It's Halloween !!!!!

WOW yes it's Halloween time. What a fun card to give a child at that time of the year.  I made this one for our new granddaughter who lives over 210 miles away from us and I only get to see once in a while.  We miss her and our other granddaughter who lives in California.

The card just above is to bring in the Holidays as they are coming soon. This one is just a card to send as a thinking of you card and you just want to send someone a note of Hi.  The flowers on this card are a 4 inch flower but when I rolled it up I use the fine point of a rattail comb and keep it at that small area so it rolled up tight.  Then I fuffed it to make it loosen up just a little then I glued it down to the base.  I like the way the rattail worked for me.  I even made some with the rattail and finished rolling it up into the bigger part of the rattail to make it bigger looking.  I will have  tutorial for you  tomorrow on that part of it.

Thank you for coming by and I hope you will enjoy what you are looking at and leave me a comment or hit the "Like" button to let me know you was here.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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Help was needed and the help came Thanks to the ladies from TheHive

I asked for some help from the wonderful ladies from The Hive and I came away some very good advice and I want to share it with you.  But also I'm going to find out what works best for me and then I will share that with you.  On Saturday I wasn't feeling good and then on Sunday I started running a fever.  But tonight I'm feeling a little bit better.  This is what I asked help for.

See how there is nothing in the middle of these flowers, well that is what I want to fix.  You don't see real flowers that look like that.

I was thinking that it was just me that these flowers turned out this way.  But that isn't true.  Most of the ladies I talked theirs looked like these also but they used buttons, glue dots and another kind of glue to make them closer togehter.  So this week I'm going to try a few of these and see what "I" like best then show you how I did that.  I know when i first started making cards I was watching all the video's that I could find  and even step by step instrutions on how to put them together.  So I what to come back and show you how I did it.  But first I need to get rid of this fever so i can work harder.

Thank you for coming by and reading this and I also want to say Thank you ladies From The Hive.  I couldn't do this without you all.  It is the best place to be and learn.  you can learn all kinds of Crafts, or Art.  If you want to join just let me know.

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Sincerely
Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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What am I doing wrong ??

Okay Ladies I really need to know something and I'm coming to you to ask for your help. For the last two weeks I have put cards on here and I can't get anyone to leave me any remarks.  So this is going to be short and sweet and right to the point.  I'm coming to you my friends I hope or am I reading into more then I should.  I really want to know why I can't get followers and why can't I get people to like my cards or just hit the Like button and let me know.  Am I boring or just no fun to be around.  Now maybe I can get someone to let me know what I'm doing wrong on here.  I was even number 15 in the Top Blogs and I only heard from one lady about it.  So to me that means no one cares.  I just hope we don't treat our New followers this way or they will leave.

Have a nice day ladies.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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WOW Top 40 making the Cut # 15 (9)

WOW I'm so excited I just checked out the Top 40 and on my blog it says # 15 but when I chicked on it i was under number 8.  Woo I can't believe that.  They like my Blog and what a honor that is and that is so exciting to me.  I don't earn any award or anything like that so for them to pick me as number 15 (9), WOW I'm just so excited I'm tongue tide and just don't know what to say.  Nut I'm just to claim down and just keep working at it to make it better.  That too I'm still learning cause I just have 80 followers.  But I'm thinking about do a Blog candy for my Birthday party of being on the Hive for One year on Dec 3.  So soon start looking for that but to win you have to be a follower of my blog.

Thanks ladies I'm just so excited and Happy Happy Happy, I'm doing a little dance here.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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Snails and flowers ???

As I was putting this card together and I went to put the flower on it I really looked at it and saw the small little snails on it,  How cute that could be to give this to a child or even a little lady that love snails in her gardens.

Thank you for coming by and looking at my cards and I hope you like them.  Just let me know how you feel.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nana
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Happy Birthday w/flowers !

I love the colors of this card with the flower and it really brings out the words Happy Birthday out for everyone to see.  Thanks for looking.  The flower matchers the color that is around the outer edge of the card.  I just saw that and wanted to share that point with you.

Thank you for coming by and I hope you will enjoy these as I do making them.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nana
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Leaves !!

These Leaves was so much fun to make and almost bigger then the flowers.  But I still am having fun with them.  our son is also here and he likes them and he keeps saying MOM you found where your talent is at.  Because of that I want to make some little boxes and put the Mini candy bars in them for the Wedding Reception.  The one in Our Home Town unless the bride would like me to make some for them.  That is what I'm going to start next week.  I'm going to start by make 200 and go from there.  I will show you as I go.

Thank you ladies for coming by and looking at these,  Leave me a comment if you like them or if I can make them better tell me how.  I love comments that's how I grow.

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Black and white with leaves?

I wish I come up with catchie lines to use on these. I'm just not witie enough to come up with them. BUT I do have a lot of fun and I love making these cards and I'm so Grateful for my friend Tami who asked me to make these for all the ladies. I love it, now I think I'm caugh up enough that I need to start making my Christmas Cards.

Thank you so much for coming by and I hope you like these, let me know, leave me a comment.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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The same help is needed on this one???

Do I need to glue the papers together at the beginning or what to make it stay together in the middle.  Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong on  these.  Come by and let me know.

See how the center of the flowers not all bunched up in the middle to make it look like a flower.  What else do I need to do to fix this wo I know what to do.  i want to make them correct and I don't feel that i am.

Okay Ladies thank for coming by and I hope some of you can help me out. I'm not sure what I need to do.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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A New Flower ??

Okay I got my Cricut out last night and I was hoping to make some flowers like the ones that some of the girls here on The Hive has done.  I started out with the Cricut at making them at a 2.50 and make 20 of them.  Then when I got them off the matt they made up as small as a rose bud.  They was really small. then I tried them at 3.25 and I made 3 of them and they was still really to small.  SO infinally I made them at 4 inch and and only could get 4 per page.  But really they look to small but I'm working with those.  So if anyone can help me I would be very grateful.  I have some that I have put on these cards and you can see what I mean.   

Okay ladies I really need your help.  What am I doing wrong on these flowers.

Hope you can help me and please leave me a comment telling me how to fix these.

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Sincerely
Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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Another Gift Just for You

I like this one and Teresa I sure hope you will too. They went together pretty good together and the next bush will have another kind of flower to be put on them.  I'm getting my Cricut out tonight to make them.  Tomorrow you will get to see the New Flowers and cards.

Thank you coming by and I hope you will like these cause I sure had fun making these.

Thank you for coming by. 

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A Package for You.

We all like to get packages and this person who get's this from Teresa. This one was so fun to make and I did enjoy making all the flowers for them and I just for these 4 from last night and finished this morning.  I had t o cut enough of the circles out then I had to smashed them up and then had to put 5 of them per flower,  IF you haven't tried these just ask and I will share with you how.

Thank you for coming by and I hope you will leave me a comment if you like them.

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Donna Scrapp'n Nanahttp://scrappnana.blogspot.com/
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