Cellllll-e-brate good times.  COME ON!

This is the last fabric flower project!  Can I get a WOOT?

Today I made a fabric-flower birthday card for my niece.  Incidentally, “niece” was one of my son’s spelling words this week, and it happens to be a word I always misspell, until I see it and I realize, “That is not how you spell that at all.”  Aren’t you glad we had this little chat?

So, punch out flowers, glue them to a card, badda bing, badda boom, yeah.

It was fine.  No major mishaps, and I managed to stay awake the whole time.  But…

I need to make an overall observation about this whole fabric-flower technique thingy.  It just does NOT work well.  I don’t know what kind of punches Martha’s peeps have, or what they do to sharpen them, or perhaps it’s the fabric I used.  But stiffened fabric simply does not cut well with a punch.  What you get, unscientifically speaking, about 85% of the time, are frayed fibers that have torn instead of cut.

See those threads at the bottom?  So you end up trimming a lot of loose threads, which is, to say the least, ANNOYING.

TIME INVESTED

This should’ve taken about 10 minutes, but because of all the trouble punching and trimming, it took more like

30 minutes

DIFFICULTY

Easy

TOTAL COST

• fabric charm pack, $9.99
• pack of blank note cards, $4.99
• fabric stiffener, $5.00
• Martha Stewart flower punch, $9.99

Total cost = $29.97  (You could make as many cards as come in your card pack for this price, though.)

WAS IT WORTH IT?

I’d say this is one of the fabric flower projects that is moderately effective.  It’s really a “meh” for me, but if you like to make cards it’s a new technique that could add some diversity to your repertoire.

And… curtains down on these flowers!  Next up, you will not believe it, y’all, but I’m going to be GILDING.  Oh yes.

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