My husband Paul was treated seriously wonderfully on a recent work trip to Hawaii. I wanted to see if once again I could adapt the Folding Flower pattern to make a few colorful giant Hibiscus flowers as thank you cards for his host's heartfelt gifts they sent back for me.Using the same pattern as the roses, I took the largest petal shape (petal no.1) and extended them a bit longer and more ruffled at the tips, made a double layer out of natural texture tropical-color papers from Paper Source, reshaped the stamen to be longer and made a dimensional criscross at the tip only.
I shaded the throat and edges on all sides of the petal layers with blending chalks in deeper matching colors. Big over-sized leaves added a nice contrast underneath as well as a little paper bees with glassine wings added on make for a little living touch.
Mahalo to all! Questions?
ENHANCE! Aloha! Close-er up of bloom by Paper Forest reader request! All the better to see it with? See the dimensional stamen tip?
19 comments:
Good for Anne! You are totally adorable in that poster, Wil.
Really love it! Great Idea. Any chance you can get a close up picture of the finished flower?
Absolutely! Close up, coming up! Thanks for asking!
your blog is very interresting !
congratulation .
now i have a lot of idea to make paper toys .
Beautiful! Thank you for the close up!
Nice Post. Thanks for sharing.
Ohana!!
Nice flowers!Great job.Wonderfull blog keep up the good work!!!
Ashlie Vinson
Thanks, Melvyn! I didn't know you dug paper engineering too! I'm all up into it.
I absolutely LOVE your blog, these flowers are beautiful!
Thanks everyone for the comments!
Jaime, I can't delete the Russian spam comment just above (no trash can icon lik eon others). Can you?
Wow! I just love your flower. What pretty colors. The little bee is quite cute too. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much, Meyer Lemon Designs! So kind of you to say! I hope you get a chance to try making one! The pattern (linked in the post) is easily adaptable. Show us what you make!
OMG this is sooo beautiful!! AWESOME job!
Can you email the flower template to me? the pdf you included was damaged.
thank you!
kuan_chenghan@hotmail.com
Yes, of course, Kuan. I just sent the pdf directly to you. Anyone else who would like it, please just put an email address here, and I'll send it right over.
Still having trouble finding a solid pdf link that also works overseas.
USA folks should be able to download from the link in the post.
Make roses!
Hi--Let me start by saying I love your blog, I can't tell you how many times I call my adult daughter in saying, "You've GOT to look at this!!!"
I have been asked to lead a class on how to make a pop-up card class. First, may I have permission to use your rose pattern (giving you full credit of course), I'll gladly take pictures of all the cards that are made and post them.
Second I simply cannot get any of the links to work for the pattern. I have tried and tried and tried several times with no luck. Thanks, Hilly
Hello, Hilly! Deligted for you to use the rose pattern for your class. How exciting. I'd be thrilled. Bythe way, the Paper Forest blog is Jaime Zollar's and she's asked myself and few other paper fans to guest post, when we find something great to share.
Now, to get you the pdf...
First I'll try tracking you backward through Blogger. In the meantime, if you read this, please email me at
nobledesign[at]sbcglobal[dot]net directly and I can swish it right to you!
That goes for anyone interested!
Cheers!
No luck, Hilly, although trying to track down an email for you was fun because I found all the blogs we enjoy in common!
However, please do write to me so I can send you the pattern. I'm stuck unless you do.
nobledesign[at]sbcglobal[dot]net
If you are in the US, the Google docs hosted pdf as linked now should work? I'm confused.
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