I know in my last post about Kanzashi In Bloom I said we’d spend a couple of weeks on these flowers and meet up here later, but obviously I couldn’t wait. However, I still expect all of you to complete your assignments, and I will definitely be making more Kanzashi flowers, pushing the envelope each time and sharing with you along the way.
So, with book in hand, I made “Gramma’s Flower”, a gift for my mom. This was super easy and would work great with not only names, but I thought how wonderful to make a flower of encouragement with positive and loving words for a friend who may be going through a personal battle, such as cancer. Or a few flowers for the teacher with the names of her students. Everyone loves a personalized gift!
I won’t be giving a tutorial on how to make these flowers, that’s all in Diane’s book, but I will share the part about printing the names. Below is the basic layout for 6 petals. Click to keep.
Choose a light colored fabric that doesn’t have a pattern that would compete with the words. Using the layout as a guide, create squares and place names in the red area. I used 12pt. lowercase SandraOh font. Don’t print the guide, place it on a layer that can be hidden or removed when printing. Be sure to print your own square outlines, this will keep things accurate. Test your layout by printing a sample out onto plain paper and fold the petal with the longest word to make sure it will not fall into a fabric fold. Note: If I were to make one like this again, I would flip a few names before printing so as the flower petals turn, the words along the bottom don’t go upside down.
Then, cut a piece of fabric just under the size of your paper, tape along the entry end and up the sides a bit. (I used white paper tape, not showing up so good in the photo.) It took a few times for my printer to take the fabric covered paper, it helped if I loaded extra plain paper in the tray behind the piece I was trying to feed through.
Once printed, remove the tape, cut the squares out and start folding & pinning. The rest is in the book. I made and added a fabric covered button to mine and finished off the back with a brooch pin-back.
Diane posted a video tutorial of how to make another kind of Kanzashi flower, check it out! {LINK}
And one last thing…Hi Mom! Guess what I’m sending you this week!
So cute! Love it!
I love this flower. Just wished I had time to do these and everything you put up on your blog. Still not sure how you get the names printed out. I have no patience. But if you would like to you could check out my blog. I have painted a sign with white roses. I have a hard time getting any painting in with taking care of my granddaughter. Love your ideas. Your blog I have to visit everyday. Have I told you that before? Sally
I leave Google Reader for a few minutes this evening and look what I come back to! I just finished reading your last post about Diane's book and to also let you know I added one of your gracious, sweet email me blog buttons on my blog this evening. I love the vintage envelope style button! I ♥ your blog and your tips, tutorials and ideas, Cathe. Thank you!
I really do like handmade things and craft blogs,
even though i do not make any thing from a blog post but i like seeing the pictures.
I added your JSIM to my feed reader 😉
What a neat idea. Great job. If I wasn't afraid of sewing I'd give it a try too.
You make everything look so easy….sigh! This daisy is so sweet, I like it a lot.
Beautiful flower, I love the idea of putting grandchildren's names on it – I never knew you could put fabric through printer!
Thanks for the video link, it is realy a nice and simple gift to make.
It's absolutely lovely…and there are endless ideas for petal words, aren't there?
that is so sweet! what a thoughtful gift. you're amazing!
So cool!
I love your blog!
http://christiecottage.blogspot.com
Okay, talk about needing to go lie down!!!!
This is mind-blowing, Cathe. I love, love, love it. What an amazing, beautiful use of the technique. Your creative mind is so clever and original.
Off I go to shout this from the rooftops…
I am not usually a traditional crafty person (becoming more and more of one), but this idea is SO COOL. Thank you so much for sharing.
Okay, Cathe Holden, you are out of control. You think you could turn down the cool factor a notch so I can go back to feeling good about myself?:-) No, but really, this is terrific!
perfect!
What a pretty present! =)
Cathy, I am completely in awe! What a great, craty, genius Kanzashi innovation!
I will put on my thinking cap and try to come up with something worthy for your photo gallery. But you are setting the bar awfully high!
Diane sent me a link to the "copper gourd" post and I became an instantaneous fan! Looking forward to following your crafty footsteps in wwcw!
This is great. I love that as a graphic designer you created a craft with words.
This could be used in so many good ways. I love it!
How wonderful!
Wow.I'm sure your mom will really appreciate it!
Too cute!
I LOVE this!! with the words…so neat! Thanks for putting out the link for the video, it was great too.
That's stinkin' clever. I ordered my book today, can't wait. xo,suzy
Okay, I'm totally having to scrape my jaw up off of the floor. This ROCKS!!! I posted a link to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-printed-words-in-kanzashi-flowers/2009/09/17/
(link will go live at approx. 10:00 PM CST).
–Anne
Oh my! I just found you via the above Crafty Gossip link and I'm glad I clicked now. This is beautiful, it looks so effective. I'm definitely going to check out that video link! Thank you for sharing.
It is lovely. Your mom will be happy. Thanks for sharing with us.
I love it so cute. I'm glad you added the names.
This is just gorgeous – I'm sure your Mum was so thrilled with it. Re the sticking fabric on paper to go through the printer – I recently found out about freezer paper and print my redwork patterns directly on to the calico. Have you tried that? http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/imagefabric.html Jackie in the UK
A helpful hint for next time you want to print on fabric. IRON the fabric to a piece of freezer paper cut to exactly the same size. The waxed side of the paper will melt and adhere to the cloth – easy to remove when you're done! This is something that us quilters do quite often! Much easier than using tape.
BTW – Your flower is adorable!
What a beautiful flower. I love it!
I like the way this came out. I’ll have to check Diane’s book for sure!
great post! thanks for sharing this! will definitely try this…