There are lots of great tutorials for constructing flowers that are fun to try. Often for me, between work and family there is just not enough time to try them all and fall back to my old faithful crumpled shabby chic flowers. They can be pretty and fast. A few papers chomped up with a punch or die cut, sprits of paint or ink, bit of wrinkling and dab of the Helmar 450 Quick Dry and you are done!
Some of our little tips to make the most out of shabby chic flowers includes the crumpling. If you do that before painting or inking, it breaks up some of the fibres in the paper to allow the colour to absorb at different speeds and make a nice tone on tone effect.
When ready to glue them together, I like to place the layers in a line face down so that I can quickly dab a spot of glue to each to make assembling just that little bit faster. Crumple a little more as you build up the flower. Don’t forget that the Quick Dry 450 has a good solid hold and works really well on building up little button accents, the perfect topper for shabby chic crumpled flowers. Everyone in the design team enjoys sharing and visiting your links to the Helmar FaceBook page to see what you have been creating.
