The making of a flower continued

Getting back to those paper flowers I'll show you how to turn those die cut pieces into something more lifelike.

Gather the die cut flower pieces, some cotton balls and an ink pad that is either a darker shade of the color of your paper or a complimentary color. Since I didn't have a yellow ink pad I chose orange. You could also do this with a marker.

Rub the cotton ball on the ink pad to pick up some of the ink then rub the inked cotton ball on the flower pieces. You don't want to completely cover the piece just highlight certain areas like around the edges or any raised areas there may be.

Once done with that you'll need a toothpick, skinny dowel rod or something else to use to curl the petals of the flower

After you've used your chosen tool to curl the edges the pieces will look like this.

Aside from curling the petals I also pushed down in the center while pushing the petals up from the bottom to give it a slight cone shape.

Now all you need to do is grab some glue and with a dab on the center glue the layers together. You can use 2 or 3 layers depending on how big you want your flower to be.

 
Now all it needs is a gem or pearl in the center of it or you could even leave it plain.