I came up with today's tutorial after one-too-many frustrations with paper. I love the look of accordion fold flowers but have adhesive issues. When I attach the ends to make the strip of paper into a circle it always comes undone or is too bulky.
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I set my problem soving brain to work and came up with a circle format.
Step 1:Cut a 4 inch circle from cardstock.
Step 2:Score your circle into 16ths as shown in box 1 and box 2
Step 3:Cut a 1.5 inch circle out of the center.
Step 4:Bunch center of the circle together to create an accordion flower, secure with adhesive. I use hot glue which looks a tad messy so I add a paper covering circle on top.
If you make accordion folds from circles 2.5inches or smaller you will need to cut a 1inch circle from the center.
If you make accordion folds from circles 2.5inches or smaller you will need to cut a 1inch circle from the center.
I've posted a great Christmas project to the forum that uses this Accordion Fold method.
Stop by and check it out!!!
Scrap On!
~charity~
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3 comments:
Thanks for the tip . They look lovely. What do you mean by bunch up the circle. Do you mean make the accordion look by folding them .
Marie ohanlon.
First make the accordion look by folding them, then press the outer edges of the circle towards the center so that the center hole shrinks. Kind of like a gentle squeeze.
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