Accordion folded flowers

Hi!

  Today I’m here to share a card I made for a challenge at create. The challenge is to make accordion folded flowers. I kept to the same technique and also made accordion folded leaves and a butterfly. I wish I could add a tutorial here, but there has been no connectivity all day and now that it’s finally here, I’m posting in a hurry hoping that I’ll be just on time to link up to create after all the effort I put in to make this card.

   The papers used are a gift wrap paper for the flower and colored A4 papers for the flower center, leaves and butterfly. The basic requirement to make all three is a rectangular piece of paper, scored to form the accordion fold. In addition, to make the flower, I glued a thin strip of yellow paper along one edge before folding and after joining to form a circle, cut it to reveal petals and added a bead in the centre to cover the space. For the leaves after the accordion fold was made, it was folded in half (like a fan), the edges that met were glued then cut into leaves. To make the butterfly, I drew a symmetrical design in red, folded, tied it in the centre with brown cord for the antennae and body, cut into shape, then lightly colored the edges of the wings. The background paper is white card stock dabbed with distress ink and layered over red card stock. The sentiment is stamped, the frame around it is a rub on and the ribbon is from my stash. I hope you’ll like my new creation.

I’m also entering this card into the following challenges:

 Color Throwdown – Color challenge #149

Digi Design House - Handmade Flowers

Creative Craft Challenges  -Pretty Blossoms 
CREATIVE BELLI BLOG - Handmade Embellishments