Packing a punch

The Fleurs Flower Forming Punches can be used to create small flowers or the centres of larger flowers. They are cleverly designed to neatly fit over the shapes of the punches, which you can print in a variety of colours to get a variegated effect.

I used the punch on shiny paper to make the centre of these mallow flowers. I used the flower and leaf punches to make the smaller flowers on the border.

I cut out some leaves using the punches and laminated them, together with some textured threads. I folded the laminated sheet to create a bag shape . The edges were sewn by hand and a button fastener was attached. The handles is a string of beads. The bag was then decorated with mallow flowers with the punched flower centres. A few leaves were added to finish the bag.

The Tattered Laced box dies were used for this box. The bottom of the box was cut from card and the lid is again laminated acetate with punched shapes and threads encased in the acetate. The papers used to make the flowers were decorated with oxide inks and cut with the Fleurs Flower Forming Foam mallow dies.

The wooden plaque was painted and texture paste added. Rare Earth stamps were used to decorate the plaque. The punches were used for the centre of the mallow flowers.

This tunnel card was made by cutting an aperture in the card and using the spring frame cut twice and positioned in different places to create depth. The flower punches were used to make the flowers at the front of the card.