Paper Trunked Tissue Paper Tutorial

Helllloooooooooooo,

Have you all been inspired by our awesome Paper Trunk Inspired flower tutorials?  Have you been sharing your creations with us?  We would love to see them!!

Today I have another beautiful flower tutorial for you all!  This one is just so cheap to make, honestly one of the most cost effective flowers!!  And they look bootiful and fluffy and interesting!

 

  

Steps:

1.  Grab your brayer, some ink (a large inkpad works much better) and your tissue paper. If you have some shaped punches or spellbinders, it will make your life much easier ;)

2.  Using your brayer, ink up the whole sheet of tissue paper.  Make sure you roll the ink into various directions to get a lovely distressy type look.  I'm not worried about covering every single inch in colour, but if you want a more solid look add a good slather of ink!

 

  

3. Next use your dies (I have used 3 different sized scallop circles) as your template to cut out squares.  Each layer of flower should have about 8-12 layers.  Once you have them all cut and sorted, pop them through your die-cutting machine, I'm a cuttlebug girl ;)  If you are a punch girl, make sure you back your tissue paper with a bit of cardstock to give your punch something as a base.

4.  The die-cutting machine will compress your layers together, so pull them apart again.

5.  Next gather up each pile again and then scrunch them up really well.  Scrunch - unfold - scrunch - unfold - scrunch ;)

 

6.  Next simply place the layers one on top of the other.

7.  Top it off with a big brad, a button or other embellishment of your choice.

8.  You can either leave it at this stage or go further and ruffle up the layers again,  I just kinda squeeze my layers all up and around the brad.

And then lightly unruffle them till I'm happy with the look.

Tips:

*Play with different colouring mediums.  Glimmermist works much quicker than brayering, but leaves the tissue paper wet, which takes a while to dry.  Very pretty effect though.

*Try stamping pretty flourishy designs on your tissue paper for a lovely intricate effect.

*Try different shapes and different quantities in the layers.

*They are not acid free, so remember to keep it away from your photos ;)

Same blue ink was used on this card, but added some smudging of a lime green ink.  Different shaped flower and only used the one size and about 5 layers here.

GO WILD, ideas are endless with this one!!

Credit goes to cupcakecreations for her gorgeous tutorial on this flower.