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Alright so another cool thing to do with Tissue Tape is to create a flower
this is a little flower right here
that is just made out of Tissue Tape
let me show you how so we're going to start with a base and for a
base I'm just going to take a piece of cardstock that is just kind of a left over
tag torn apart get the circle punch it doesn't matter what
size circle obviously the bigger the circle the bigger the flower but
something that you can use as a base
and I find having the circle is a really
easy way to start so I'm going to go with my Tissue Tape I'm going to start on the outter
edge here and I'm just going to go in
and just gather it you can see that I'm kind of
folding it over a little bit go in so you're just basically kind
of
almost pinching it just a little bit and sticking it right down
to that that edge and I'm turning the circle as I go just following along the
edge basically just creating you can see that just
little pleats along the edge and if you
don't like the way it's going remember Tissue Tape you
can just lift it
right off so just kind of gather and I like this because this is kind of like
if you are going to gather say crate paper or
something like that
but obviously because it's Tissue Tape it's already adhesive backed put that on
so I'm just going to go all the way around the
edge and
it gets a little tacky I mean you'll get used to the feel it's not super sticky tuff
it's again you know it's got to come off the role so
it's not super sticky but
once you get around there and we've gone around the edge one time
I'm going to start gathering again and this time I'm
going just make kind of smaller gathers if I can
pinch it together and now I'm going further
towards the center
again just gathering that up
pinching it and if it starts to lift at this point because
you obviously have so much tape and not enough surface don't worry I'll show you how
to
tack that down just get in
again make those small little pleats gather it
make the small pleats and notice I'm working right from the roll I just
have the roll of the tape right in my hand this way
you don't have to start and stop start and stop
alright keep going
and once I go around that second time
and I've made it all the way around
I'm just going to kind of do a little partial for the center if you try to go
all the way a third time I think it starts to get a
little messy looks more like a *** of trash than it does a flower
and notice it looks pretty flat right now because
you are smashing each time so don't worry about
that alright so I've gathered up when I
think I'm good enough
tear that off the Tissue Tape so now we have this so again if anything lifts on
the inside you can just go in and tack that down
you can go in with the glue gun
and just kind of lift up that little
center put a little bit of hot glue and just touch
that because again if it starts to spiral sometimes
it gets a little crazy
then you can just
fluff that up a little bit now for the center and just going to take a button this is one
of my
Accoutrements they come all sorts of different ones you know
all sorts of different cool vintage-y style buttons if you want to
create like a bling center you've got
that they all have shanks on the back so
I want to cut that off and again just go in with your scissors
just cut that right off
and you could use a glue dot for this
step or whatever you want but
I like to just get out my hot glue gun
take this
stick that right down in the center
and while that's down again on my craft sheet I'm just I'm just gathering it up remember
the Tissue Tape is going to lift just a
little bit that's going to give you the dimension you
need
take that string off and there you go really cool flower and now you can see
it's very dimensional
pretty cool so if you wanted to ink this you could ink it at this point but of
course was with the alcoholic you're going to
smash it out but if you ever wanted like a colored
Tissue Tape flower and you want to really make sure that it's vibrant you
can always start with the Tissue Tape
pull it out on your non-stick craft sheet swipe your ink tool across to color it
keep going and then just roll it right
back up it's really not that big of a deal you don't need a lot of tape I'd probably
say
in here
I don't know maybe we used a yard of tape total
so it's not that bad just to make
a cool flower