How to create crepe paper flowers with Kirsty Vittetoe! :)

Today's guest is the lovely Kirsty Vittetoe of Handmade Little Things. I "met" Kirsty when she invited me to guest for City Crafter Challenge blog. Kirsty has a sweet, romantic style and loves to play with mediums to achieve great textured effects. She works the pastels really well and I'm especially enamoured by the beautiful handmade flowers on her creations. Today, she shares a tutorial on how to make crepe flowers. :) She is also hosting a crepe paper challenge with an awesome prize for the winner! 

But first, let's have a look at all the handmade flower goodness...

Hi, I’m Kirsty Vittetoe, born and raised in Sunny Island Singapore but now a resident in United States. I began scrapbooking way back in 1992, I could not find any scrapbooking store in those days, I got all my supplies when I visited Australia, New Zealand or United States.

It all started with the love for paper, from a mom trying to preserved the precious memory for her kids, to card-making, and now, I am the owner of a kit club, a full time designer, “playing” with paper is my job, as well as my joy.

You never know where you will find inspiration, for me, it can be from a cover page of Martha Stewart magazine to the basket of clothespin in my laundry room.

My favorite embellishment is flower, and I made tons of them, showing you here in my project is my latest new love, crepe paper flower, hope you’d like it!

You can see more of my work here - http://www.handmade-little-things.blogspot.com

Last but not least. A very big thank you to Yvonne for this amazing opportunity to be featured here.

Step 1 - cut about 9 inches out of the crepe paper, I love using white as you can mist it with any color you want.

Step 2 - fold it in half.

Step 3 - trim down a bit on both ends.

Step 4 - Gather the crepe paper using needle and thread. (I usually use white thread but here I am showing you with a darker one so that it is visible in the photo.)

Step 5 - I round up the end by pulling the thread tight at the bottom of the bloom.

There you have it...crepe paper flower! You can mist it with any color to match your project.

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Looks really pretty on her card right? So are you ready to play along? Post your newly-created crepe paper inspired creations (card/layout/off-the-wall projects) using Inlinkz (located at the end of the post) by Friday June 17, (11.59pm GMT +8). Kirsty is sponsoring a $15 gift certificate to Pixie Dust Paperie for the winner! :)

 For those of you who can't wait to get your hands on a Pixie Dust Paperie kit, she's offering all of my readers a 30% discount on all Pixie Main kits (November to May) from now till Friday June 17. Yay! The code is "Pixie-Garden".

If you've enjoyed the tutorial by Kirsty, please leave her a little love friends! :)