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Polymer Clay Poppy Flower

November 9, 2012 by Merry Leave a Comment

Poppies and their story have caught the household this week and another daughter got in on the act to produce this stunning piece of arty-crafty beauty. A really simple method produces a fabulous poppy flower from 3 colours of polymer clay and some seed beads.

As you can see from the easy step by step below, we used cutters designed for petal shapes. However, it would be really easy to fashion these petals by hand or by gently moulding heart shape cut outs. The red sculpey is in 6 parts, 4 small petals and 2 large ones while the leaf is another cutter. If you don't have anything suitable, flatten out an oval bead shape of green fimo and then use the handle of a knife to gently make dents in the side.

We used some sculpey texture plates to give it the pattern. These are lovely but you can easily recreate the effect. One way is to make a texture of squiggles in fimo and bake it, then press it into your petals, another is to use doilies or fabric to add pattern.

The centre is a heart shape with tiny black seed beads pressed into it. This poppy was baked flat, but with some extra leaves and a second flower, this could easily make a loop around a vase or be mounted on a canvas covered picture frame as a picture.

 

Filed Under: Difficulty 2/5, Polymer Clay, Remembrance Day Tagged With: fimo poppy, how to make a fimo poppy, polymer clay poppies, poppy, remembrance day crafts

Remembrance Day Poppy in Felt

November 6, 2012 by Merry 2 Comments

We’ve done some great Remembrance Day crafts before, using the opportunity to talk through the significance of the day and read some war poetry, marking the 2 minute silence with our crafty friends as we went. Today we thought we would have a go at making our own poppies, since we’ve not yet been past a seller. We can pop a £1 in an appeal box next time we see one.

I wasn’t sure of this for most of the time I was making it, but in the end I was fairly happy with it. There are step by step photos below.

Poppies have 4-6 petals apparently; I ad libbed a bit so you have to imagine the the base is two large petals. The shape on the right was a basic one and then I trimmed it down to look prettier once the 4 smaller petals were in place.

I held 4 small petals on top, making them overlap each other as the went round then stitched them down in red thread with a circle of stitches fairly near to middle. I pulled the thread a little as I went round so they puckered slightly and lifted. This gave the flower some shape.

Once that was done I added some stitched detail lines up and down each of the smaller petals. Again I pulled slightly to pucker the petals.

I added a circle of black felt to the centre and using black thread, I added lots of small black seed beads to the middle to give it texture.

Lastly I added one of my autumn leaves and a brooch pin. I’m pleased with it 🙂

As usual, Maddy totally outdid me with this very classy poppy. She cut two circles, one slightly smaller and stitched tiny beads all round the edge of each, pulling the thread as she went to make them cup slightly. The centre is totally black seed beads, all individually stitched.

I’m not really speaking to her any more 😉 Seriously, how can anyone aged 12 makes something so classy?

Lastly, I made one final simple one using two layers of easy shapes and some 2mm seed beads as the centre. I quite like really.

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Filed Under: Difficulty 3/5, Flowers, Maddy Makes, Remembrance Day, Sewing Tagged With: Armistice Day craft, easy felt poppy, hand sewn poppy flower, how to make a felt poppy, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day Craft

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