Piercing and Shaping Flower Petals
A handmade enclosure card makes any gift just a little more special. For this 3″ square card, the pansy was watercolored, photocopied, scaled down, and then printed twice. On the top layer, the pansy’s petals have been pierced, trimmed, and shaped for dimension. See the how-to photos, below.
Materials for 3″ pansy gift enclosure card: Pierced Flowers and Faux Stitched Borders digi-stamps, square Nestabilities die, white 110# Georgia Pacific cardstock, ColorMates Deep Caribbean Coral cardstock, Mill Hill seed beads, Judi-Kins Diamond Glaze, dimensional Zots, Tombo Mono adhesive, iridescent gel pen.
Shaping the Petals
Print an extra pansy at the same time as the first one, and pierce it. Cut out only the top four petals, trimming off the fifth petal. Also cut between the petals for this top layer. Place the pierced, trimmed piece face down on a mouse pad. Press down with a large ball stylus along the edges of the petals to shape them.
Stacking the Pieces
Attach the top pansy directly over the bottom one by placing a dimensional glue dot in the middle. The petals’ edges should stay free and unattached. Curl the top petals up slightly, so that they stand away from the cardstock base. This photo shows the dimension of the top petals, and you can also see the iridescence of the gel pen that was used to connect the dots of the pierced border.
For more petal shaping techniques, a good reference is Paper Bouquet by Susan Tierney Cockburn. I’ll be back again soon to to show the types of variations you can make with twin needle piercing and faux stitched borders.
April 27th, 2009 | 
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Great card, and wonderful flowers, thanks for the tutorial.
This card and technique is just awesome!!! Thanks for the tutorial!!!
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What an awesome blossom, Judi!! This pierced, layered, and popped up pansy is absolutely gorgeous!! How exquisite!!!
beautiful card and gorgeous flower..thanks for the wonderful tutorial!
What a beautiful flower! Wonderful instructions on how easy this is to do!
Wowzer! What a terrific flower you created. And a great tutorial on how to create it.
Wowza! Talk about gorgeous! TFS the step-by-step.
amazing, I love it.
Judi, awesome coloring! I want to be like you when I grow up – LOL! Love the simplicity of the card, yet so elegant! I have been doing the same technique on the flowers too with an embossing tool to make it look more life like. Love the blue dewdrop accents too – ties the card together well.
Alma =)
Great card.I will have to try it.
KK
beautiful piercing and layering! Stunning end result!
this is just gorgeous!!
Beautiful, I just found out about Digi-Stamping and I’m really intrigued. I’m just going to have to try this out for sure.. Lovely work and thank you for the Tutorial..
stunning! I love the depth!