Carnation Flower Tutorial - Scrapbook Challenges

Hi all!  Today is my day to put up a tutorial on Scrapbook Challenges. I've really been getting into creating my own flowers.  Today I'm going to show you how to make Carnation Flowers.  They may have another name but this is what I call them.  They are pretty easy to make. This has a ton of photos so it may take a while to load.

Here's what you will need. Pattern paper, double sided cardstock works best; scalloped circle punch or regular circle (I used a 2"); brads.

First thing is to punch 10 circles:

Layer them on top of each other and make a hole for your brad. 

 I put them on a piece of foam to push a pin through.

Attach your small brad.

Take the first layer and scrunch it up around the brad like this:

Continue this layer by layer until you have all 10 scrunched up to look like this:

Now start opening up the layers a bit until you get the desired look. 

 Don't open up the inside ones because you want those to still be scrunched.

If you are wanting a more open flower put a larger brad in before you start scrunching and

you will get something that  looks like this: 

If you want to make smaller ones you can but you may want to reduce the amount of layers to about 7 or 8.  I did a smaller here below. You can also mist them a bit to make them shine.

I hope you decide to try them. 

 Hopefully next week I'll have a paper towel flower tutorial for you on video :) If all goes well!