handmade craft ideas paper quilling

hello friends! i’m smitha from the blog smiling colorsand today i have a bonus short video for you in which i show you how i made these handpainted hand cut flowers. i really wanted some pretty die cut flowersfor a project, and when i couldn't find what i needed at the store, i just came home andmade these. you could use these flowers on any craft project,i used them to decorate these handmade journals. to make the flowers, i used acrylic paintsin pretty pastel colors. these are by deco art, and i will leave infoabout the colors in the description below.

i also have some cream colored card stockand a flat paintbrush. let’s get started. ive added my paints into the little disheshere. i am dipping my brush into the paint and thenquickly painting 5 petals for a flower. here is a closer look now, i am just addingthe paint in quick strokes. while paining a bunch of flowers it is a goodidea to have different sized flowers- some with 3 petals and some with more. i also painted some leaves. now we need to let this dry a bit.

i am swapping it out with another set of flowersi painted earlier. now switch to a smaller round brush and adddetails to the flowers with the other shade of paint. you can lay the paint thick and this givessome texture as well. here i have also painted a few flowers onkraft card stock, and i am going in and adding a few details stokes. i like how the colors pop off the brown. i want to do some embossing for the centersof the flowers next, so i am going to let these dry thoroughly for a bit.

for the embossing i am using a product calledemboss gloss. this looks like a clear liquid glue and iseasy to daub onto the paper. i also have a few different colors of embossingpowder- i am sprinkling the copper here now. i shook off the excess embossing powder andthen bought a heat gun to the paper and melted all of the embossing powder. i like how this copper color looks here. now for peach flowers here i am adding somegold sparkle embossing powder to the flower centers and for the blue flowers i am addinga silver sparkle embossing powder. i will leave links to the actual productsused in the description box below- if you

are interested in finding them. now melt the embossing powder with the heattool and i love how the gold sparkle looks. it is simply beautufiul. once all the embossing is done, simple cutout your flowers- this is called fussy cutting- using a sharp pair of scissors. this will take a bit of time, but it is relaxingand calming to me. and i cut all these flowers in like 15 minuteswhile watching a tv show. and here are all the hand cut flowers. i left a thin white area around each flowerwhile cutting them, and that brings out the

beauty in these flowers. i did the same with the flowers i paintedon the kraft card stock- but i like the white ones much better. and that’s it. thats how you can create a bunch of hand paintedflowers. i just shared another video on my youtubechannel in which i make a handmade journal and i decorate the journal with these flowers.

click here to watch that video. thank you for spending some crafty time withme today friends!

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