Welcome to the second of twelve Sizzix Fresh Vintage Blog Hops! Today the featured die is the Fringed Flower.

This is one of my favorites because there are so many fun things you can do with it. Let’s take a look at what our fabulous designers have to show you!

I decided to use my ScoreBoard Box with Lid die as a base for this project partnered with some yummy papers from Melissa Frances, luscious colored twine from The Twinery and a cute little charm from Epiphany Crafts. My friend Patty has a birthday on Friday and I bought a pair of earring for her at the Garlic Festival this weekend that will fit perfectly in here- don’t you love when that happens?

Box with Lid:

1. Cover matboard piece with paper. The 6″ x 6″ paper pad was the perfect size. I covered the front and back of the box and lid each with a coordinating but different paper.   A little tip: Place the paper right side down over the area of the die you want to cut. Coat the matboard with spray adhesive and place over top of die. Repeat on the other side, add adhesive and flip matboard over and press down again. The adhesive will squish the paper and matboard together when it’s rolled though the machine to give a nice tight bond and cut all of the edges exactly to size! If you are adding paper to your matboard, always place the right side down because that’s where the score lines will be cut. Sorry this started as a little tip but is now more like a book 🙂
2. Roll matboard through Big Shot. Fold each scored flap all the way over and back, breaking the fibers.
3. Fold up flaps to form box and lid. Hold in place by wrapping rubber bands around them. Run lines of Zip Dry glue down the inside corner of each box and let dry for about 10 minutes.
4. Add pompom fringe to edge of box with Zip Dry glue.
5. Cut 3 yard lengths of twine in desired colors and wrap around the box lid  over pompom trim and tie in a knot.
6. Using your Epiphany Craft punch, find an element in the paper you would like to use as an accent and punch it out. Cover with acrylic bubble cap and place on jewelry finding- so cute! Add to the center of the twine knot. Finish tying into a bow.

Fringed Flower:

1. Cut a stack of 10 pieces of tissue paper in half. Fold in half and keep folding smaller until you have a piece about 5″ x 6″. Place on top of Fringed Flower die and cut out. You will have a good stack of pieces. If you want a full rounded flower, use pieces all of one size. If you want more of flat flower, use about one third of the stack of each size.
2. Stack flower pieces smallest to largest and add a brad to the center. Secure flower together.
3. For this project I used the medium flower shape using all layers which I cut from pink tissue paper.The smaller flower is cut from an old sewing pattern.
4. Start scrunching up the flower edges and squishing them into the center of the flower- very technical terms! It takes a while if you do each layer individually, so with tissue paper I will do a few layers at a time. With book pages, I do one at a time. You can spray the papers which helps make them a little more pliable, but it’s an extra step and it works just as well without it.
5. Once you have drawn all layers into the middle, start fluffing and fiddling with them until you have a flower you LOVE! If you want the flower to keep it’s shape, you can spray with a shot of hairspra, but again it stays pretty poufy anyway. If you need to mail the card and don’t want to have all the volume of the flower, you can tell the recipient that they may have the pleasure of the poufing and instruct them as to how this is done.( I would love to get a card like that that teaches me a new technique!)
6. Cut leaves using grocery bag fabric. Place on lid of box and adhere with glue dots. Place glue dots on the bottom of the flowers and position as desired. Add some millinery flowers to the arrangement along with pearl bling and you are in business!