Basket Flower

These are the instructions for the flower we did on the basket.

This works best with 2 sided paper. We sponged the back side of our single sided paper to create a 2 sided paper look! (Remember?) However in this tutorial - the paper is indeed 2 sided.

Using a scallop circle, (this one was cut with a Spellbinders die) fold in half as shown in diagram.



Count 4 scallops from the left and fold in with creased sides touching.

Count 2 scallops up from baseline and fold backwards from baseline to left side fold.

Now - your front should look like this.



Flip to back. It should look like this.


Fold right to left 3 scallops from the right. This picture is a little misleading. (It's a camera thing!!) You see a mountain fold (outward) - you will be doing a valley fold. (inward)

And now from the front - it should look like......THIS!!!!!!

Unfold to full circle and cut in half on center crease.


You now have 2 pieces that look like this...


Now - refold the pieces up to make them look like this....


Repeat with all 8 pieces. LOOK how BEAUTIFUL these are!!! FUN!!! EH?

Now you will begin to assemble the flower by placing the different sections next to each other as in this photo.

Keep Going........


Continue adding sections until it is all done!!! WOW - isn't this AWESOME!!!

If you so choose - you can then add some sort of embellishment to the center of your flower. A button, bead, small flower, jewel - whatever looks great!

Thanks to Christi Lee for all of the WORK behind this tutorial! I LOVE CHRISTI!!! :)