Beautiful Floral Bag (KCC Blog Hop)

Welcome to this month's blog hop with The Krazy Crafting Crew!! 

If you are looking for the Happy Birthday Blog Hop, please go HERE.

This month we are making Tags, Bags, Boxes and whatever can be made 3D!! If you just came by to visit with me, thank you, but please start at the first stop with our hostess, Janet (www.janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com).

Janet is also offering a fantastic giveaway. Here's her description of the giveaway that you DON'T want to miss!! Close To My Heart Cloud Nine Cardmaking Kit. Includes card bases, envelopes, cardstock, double sided paper, a stamp set, and washi tape, glitter tape and other embellishments to make 10 cards! Valued at $45.00! You can win this by leaving comments on each blog, and if you're not currently a follower, why not follow the blogs because there's always fun in this group and a blog hop each month to inspire you!

For my project today, I created this 3D gift bag with handles.  I purchased this file from the Silhouette Online Store.  The size of the bag is 8x5x3 inches.

I cut out the bag in hot pink cardstock, and the layer in floral paper from Basic Gray.  It was pretty easy to assemble.  I used my ATG gun to adhere the parts together.

The straps slip into the slits on the sides of the bag. 

I cut some flowers out of two different shades of pink cardstock.  I rolled them up - I have a detailed tutorial on how to make rolled flowers HERE. I put some Glossy Accents on the edges of the flower petals and dusted them with Picked Raspberry Distress Glitter from Tim Holtz.  I hand cut and inked some leaves.  I laid the bag on its side and used Glossy Accents to adhere the leaves and flowers to the front of the bag.

Here is a peek from the top.  You can see how the handles fit in the slits.  

Here is the back of the bag. 

This bag would be darling for an Easter, Mother's Day or Birthday gift.

Thank you for stopping by and visiting with me today. Please leave us a comment and let us know how you like our hop!! Now hop on over to the next stop with Zenita!

The complete lineup:

Janet         www.janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com

Liz             www.tryin2craft.blogspot.com

Christina    http://cema1cema.blogspot.com/

Lissa Marie   www.somanycrafts.com

Lori            www.Scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com****HERE

Zenita        www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com****NEXT

Cicily          www.pinkdalmatianscrapper.com

Jearise       www.lorbysworld.blogspot.com

Miranda     www.nanasscrapspot.com

Paula          www.preciouspagesbypaula.blogspot.com

Katina        www.lifeslittleblessings.com

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Rolled Flower Tutorial (Frosted Designs)

Hello - Today I am sharing my rolled flower tutorial at Frosted Deisgns!

I am not a girly-girl so I don't stock pile flowers.  When I need them, I typically make them myself and today was no different!!

I typically use my cricut or cameo to cut out the rolled flower shape, but I know not everyone has a cricut or cameo so I hand cut the shape instead.  This way anyone can make some!!!

I picked up some sheet music at the thrift store.  I love using music sheets for flowers!  You can use any paper (cardstock, scrapbook, origami, a newspaper) but double sided papers look the best rolled up in my opinion.

I drew a circle in pencil in the center of the page.  My circle is not perfect, and yours doesn't have to be either.  

Past experience has taught me what size circle will make the size flower I prefer.  The bigger circle is about 6 inches.  The smaller two are 4-5 inches.

You can see how big my biggest circle is in relation to my scissors.

I started cutting in a spiral from the outside in.  I left a small circle in the center.  After the flower is rolled up, you will put the glue on the center circle.

I use my McGill tweezers and Scotch liquid glue with 2-Way Applicator.  I use the bottom (larger) applicator.

I grab the very end of the spiral and twist the paper towards my left hand.  As long as you don't squeeze the tweezers handle, your paper will stay tight.

You can see how compact the paper gets as you roll it up!

Once you get to the center circle, gently squeeze the tweezers and slide them out.

Then let go of the rolled flower.  Don't worry - it will only unwind a bit!!

Put some liquid glue on the center and firmly hold the flower in place for a minute or two until the glue holds.

I repeated this step with the other two spirals.  When using flowers it is pleasing to the eye to use an odd number of them.

I hand cut some leaf shapes and inked them green.  I folded them in the center and inked the fold (shown below). 

I had previously covered this composition notebook with this fun glittery bird paper.  I added a bit of washi tape down the seam and a vinyl title on the front.  

I added the flowers to the side.  I like the sheet music paper as birds sing...a lot...especially the cardinal in my front yard recently :)

I set my flowers down above the title to place the leaves.  I used the same glue to adhere the leaves first (you can see the inked center fold here).  Next I adhered the flowers on top of the edges of the leaves.

I wanted to mimic the glitter in the paper, so I used stickles and a foam brush.

In the past, I painted the flowers with acrylic paint (before I rolled them) but this time I wanted to leave the flowers unpainted with a red glitter edge.

These rolled flowers are fun to make any size and add a nice 3-Dimensional touch to a project!!

I am also linking this up at PinkCricut.com!!!