Scrapbooking Grandma Crafts: Making Fabric Flowers With Your Die Cut Machine Tutorial

Monday, September 5, 2011

Making Fabric Flowers With Your Die Cut Machine Tutorial

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Posted by Mary |

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I've been busy playing with the Art Philosphy Cartridge. This cartridge is found at Close To My Heart.
Provo Craft made a cartridge that goes with some Close To My Heart Stamp Sets. So if you want this cartridge you will have to order with your Close To My Heart Consultant. I have been playing with the spiral flowers on this cartridge. This is my first attempts at making fabric flowers. There is a few tricks to making this work with cutting it out on your die cut machine.

Flower Tutorial

Here's the fall fabric flowers I made.

I'm going to show you how I made them.

I just love these Coneflowers.

First I ironed on HeatnBond - Ultra Hold to the back of my fabric.

It is a 17x12 Sheet. I did have to iron the fabic first so it was nice and smooth.

You don't want any wrinkles, creases or bunched up fabric.

If that happens it won't cut right in your Die Cut Machine.

See how it makes it nice a stiff. You want your fabric stiff in order to cut it.

Some people use liquid stiffeners. I chose to use Heat n Bond.

Here you have to peel off the backing before you place it on the mat.

You can see the backing in the first picture.

Next I put my fabric on a Really Really Super Sticky Mat.

I got the best result adding Zig 2 way glue to the mat and drying it with a hair dryer

before I adhered the material to the mat.

The Zig glue is tacky when it is dry.

You also want to make sure you put in a new blade in your machine.

You want a good clean cut.

The settings I used were pressure 5 and speed at 2 on my Imagine.

I cut the flower out at 4.5"

Here's the negative of the cut. It cut out perfectly

I did have some that didn't cut out right also.

You have to make sure your standing by your machine when cutting fabric.

Just in case the blade catches on the fabric so you can cancel the cut.

Here's the spiral flower.

I just took my stylus and rolled the flower toward me.

With the front side of the fabric up.

I don't want the heat n bond side to be showing.

Now that I have it rolled. I'm going to let the flower loosen up.

Let it uncurl. You may have to fuss with it a bit to help it loosen up.

Another view of it uncurling.

Now I have my flower loosened up to where I like it.

At the round part of the end of the flower, I'm going to adhere the flower to the bottom

with hot glue.

I think you can see it ok where I put the glue.

Here's the flower glued.

I thought I would add brads to the center of the flower.

I filled the center of the flower with hot glue and placed in the brads for the center.

These are the fabric flowers I completed.

If you want to see the images bigger click on the picture to get an enlarged view.

You can put what ever you want in the center of the flower.

The maroon flowers I didn't put a center in.

I think it looks great either way.

Good Luck with making your fabric flowers.

I think they will work great with any craft projects, cards or layouts.

Labels: Fabric Flower Tutorial, Projects, Tutorials

2 comments:

Audrey Frelx said...: So pretty, Mary!!! Thanks so much for the tutorial!; September 5, 2011 5:19 PM
Diana Joy said...: Thanks for this tut. I've not done this but now think I'll try it.; April 22, 2012 10:11 AM

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