August Challenge by Joni

Design Team Member Joni submtted this layout for the August FLOWERS (preferrable Handmade), Challenge. She has also included a tutorial on how she made the "fringe" flowers.

1) Cut a strip of paper...mine is 12x1.5 -- Use double sided patterned paper
(and sorry that my mat is so dirty...it's very heavily used!!)

2) Cut slits fairly thin all the way down the length of the strip and be sure to go pretty deep, but careful not to cut all the way through!

This is what it should look like:

3) Start at one end and roll the strip until you get to the end...(do not adhere yet)

If you did not use double sided paper be sure the pattern that you want is on the inside that you are rolling into the inside (I rolled my stripes inside)

4) The bottom (non-fringe end) will look like this

5) I like mine to be a little "looser", so I release the pressure in my fingers and let the strip "unroll" a little (it just loosens up...) and now looks like this...

6) Back to the fringe cut end... put a glue dot on the "NON CUT" edge and finish the final roll and secure it.

The fringe end will look like this...

7) Set the flower down on your table (fringe side up) and start opening the fringes with your fingers..

8) Keep opening until you get it all opened up and how you want it...you can even crumple it a little if you want. (I didn't crumple mine)

Here is a smaller flower on the left that i did and the larger one in the tutorial on the right. I used a stripe paper so you could get a good visual of the process.

Now it's your turn to take the challenge. You can either submit a project using any kind of flower or you can submit a project using one of the flowers shared in the tutorial. Just send a picture along with a description of your project to Scrappinpsycho@live.com. You could be chosen as a Guest Design Team member. See all the details in August Challenge below.