Fancy This: Flower Techniques Album

This week's Fancy This project is from Jolene Pienaar. She's made this pretty flower album. Here's what she has to say about it...

"Handmade flowers are all the rave at the moment. I keep on finding the most gorgeous looking flowers and try them out, but weeks later, when I want to recreate them, I can’t remember how and can’t find them online again. So I decided to start making myself a little flower technique book, so that when I’m in the mood to create some flowers, I can simply flip through my book, pick the one I like and follow the steps in order to recreate them! Because I didn’t want to spend forever making this book (I have loads of photos to scrap instead of course) I decided to use one of the Fancy Pants Notebook Journals as my mini album. Way too easy and I got this together in no time. I left some pages blank so I can keep adding as I find more and more ideas online. Of course you could always just do a normal photo mini album, or it would make a great little recipe book for quick and easy meals or deserts."

Instructions:

1. As my album turned into a pretty bulky album I decided to take out the spiral bound that the Notebook Journals come in and replace them with some ring binders. It is very easy to do and if you work carefully you won’t need to readjust the pages, you can simply slide some rings in place. (Of course if you are just doing a normal photo mini album and your embellishments aren’t too bulky, you can just keep the spiral in place and save yourself from doing that step.)
2. Next I simply created some complete flowers and recreated a few steps if need be and wrote out my steps in the book. It is really quick and easy.
3. Lastly pop your front page out of the rings and simply decorate as desired and pop back in place.

Comments

[Ingrid]

Wonderfull ! thank you

[Rosana]

Thank's for the tutorials.
Are very nice.
Best Regards,
Rosana

[Rosemary]

this is wonderful!

[Rhonda V.]

What a super fun album and wonderful tutorial! Just fantastic!!! Thank you for sharing it!

[Donna VW]

I love everything about this!

[Cristina]

This is absolutely fantastic! I love, love, love this mini album! Thanks for sharing!

[Lori Gentile]

Rock on! I love it! What a great idea!

[Jing-Jing]

If this isn't the MOST brilliant thing I've ever seen, I don't know what is!!!

Thank you so much, making flowers out of paper is a huge challenge for me. i can do it but it requires a lot of will, lol, thank you for having it all together like this, what a fabulous idea and totally inspirational!

[Erin]

What a fantastic idea! I may need to lift this idea--my memory is horrible! If I don't write something down, I immediately forget it! Lovely little book!

[janelle]

Wow! Thanks for the great tutorials - very helpful!

[Michelle P]

This is gorgeous-can't wait to try out some of these techniques!

[Lynn]

Gorgeous project! I love making flowers, what a great idea to keep a record of all the different techniques :)

[stinkydudette]

i like that the album was abt making paper flowers!! awesome tutorial and album!

[Paulina]

Hi Joleen

Thank you for sharing it,is absolutely fantastic.

[Mary Lou]

FANTASTIC!!!!! Thanks for sharing!!

[MichelleG]

This is just fabulous! Thank you for the inspiration!

[Cindy]

What a great way to share all of those great flower ideas!! Thank you so much!

[Bonnie[cinnabon]]

What awesome idea! I love making flowers as well, then forget how I made it and where to find it... etct. Thank you so much!

[Teresa]

Thanks for sharing! What a great idea!

[Julee]

I love this idea. Seeing how I have boys I don't get to make too many flowers. I love the idea and I will definitely lift it. How do you make the blue one on the cover? That is my favorite one.

[Eleftheria Dramitinou]

love the idea!!!

[Dalovely Damanda]

thanks so much! That is a fabulous book!

[Barbara]

What a great idea...and an 'instruction book' never looked so cute! What about the 2 flowers on the cover?? How did you make those? Love the 'shabby' green one on the left!

[Joanna]

this is such a great book! I want one! TFS!

[Christina Colón]

Thank you for sharing all of these "blooming" awesome techniques!!!