Everyone loves flowers. Especially great big huge pretty flowers!
A few months ago someone shared this picture on Facebook and right away I was smitten and knew that someday I was going to make some big paper flowers of my own. Since the theme for this month’s Silhouette® Challenge is Summer I thought thought these big, pretty flowers fit the theme perfectly.
I pretty much followed this tutorial to assemble the flowers.
But instead of cutting out the petals and leaves by hand, I made my own Silhouette® cut files.
Stick around to the end to see how to get the free cut files that I made!
I used 8-1/2″ x 11″ card stock for my flowers.
Each extra large flower is made up of 6 large petals, 6 medium petals, and 6 small petals. You will need 12 sheets of 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets of card stock for one huge flower. The flower measures approximately 15″ in diameter.
I secured my flower to a paper plate instead of a scrap of paper as in the tutorial. I can then add Command Strips to the plate for hanging.
I even made a cut file for the flower center. Why use scissors when you have a Silhouette®!
I added other flowers to the mix too. These daisies are in the Silhouette® Online Store.
I enlarged them quite a bit!
Helpful Hints:
- Keep the shapes grouped together when enlarging them to keep all of the pieces in scale.
- Take a screen shot of the design from the OnLine store then drag that image into the workspace for reference.
