Crafty Loops

This tutorial is heavily photograph based.  You need little more than some paper, glue and paper clips but there will be plenty of photographs to back up the instructions.  It is very easy to make, it just has a few steps to get it from a square piece of paper to a petal.  Sorry about the photos with my thumb nail showing!!  Its very long and has awful bumps to it as I caught it in a door when I was a wee one and it never grew right again.  It looks awful......looks like something out of Roald Dahl's The Witches!!  Its been duly cut and filed since!! WHAT YOU NEED All you need is glue, wet glue is great but you can use hot glue too.  I just didn't have any that day.  If you use hot glue don't plaster the flower in the stuff, use sparingly and you also will have no need for the paper clips then. Paper clips, if using a wet glue/pva 5 pieces of 3x3 inch paper.  Single sided or double....its up to you.  I used single sided but it looks lovely with double side

Flower Tutorial - Lace flowers Pretty Lace Flowers Yes, I know!!  ANOTHER FLOWER TUTORIAL!!  BUT, if people want to see how they are made, they ask.  And if they ask, I make the tutorial.  And lets face it, you can never have enough beautiful flowers!!  I've been asked to do a tutorial on the lace flowers I showed in a previous post.  These are very quick and easy and they can look however you want.  I was taught to make a lot of flowers when I was in Primary 4, from my lovely Primary School Teacher and this running stitch flower is just one of the things she taught us.  Big, small, single layered, double layered, pink, blue, green, frilly, flat, gathered......whatever you want, you can have with these flowers. They are so pretty with different layers and make any project look amazing.  Flowers are becoming very big again, especially in Fashion and I'm seeing them back on headbands, dresses, tops, hats....you name it....flowers are back in. All you need is a needle and thre