I finally got the chance to try out my flower-making on this Pressed Petals Card With Washi Tape Flower. The new Pressed Petals Specialty Washi Tape comes with two rolls of washi tape and one is really unique! One roll has floral washi tape with individual flower petals that you peel and stick! And of course, it all coordinates with the Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper!

Here’s how you make the washi tape flower with the Pressed Petals flower tape. Punch out a small circle for a base, like about 3/4″ or 1″. Use a larger circle if you want a larger flower using more petals. It’s a good idea to use the Silicone Craft Sheet so that the flower tape won’t stick while you work on the flower, or maybe some wax paper. For my 1″ punched circle, I started with 6 petals. Just peel them off the roll, then stick to the circle base. I put two opposite each other, then filled in with two petals on each side. It’s easy! I wasn’t able to stop playing with the petals, so I peeled off 4 more and made a second layer! You don’t have to do this. The petals seem to naturally curl up a little bit! When you have your flower made, take your Embossing Buddy and pat the backside of the flower petals to take away the stickiness.

When you have the flower made, put some kind of center in the flower. You can use cardstock, the Perennial Essence Floral Centers, or do what I did and cut out a flower center from one of the papers. My flower is popped up on the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The card itself is very easy. The card base is Crumb Cake and the beautiful paper is one from the Pressed Petals Specialty Designer Series Paper. I think this floral pattern is my favorite. Actually pressed flowers were photographed to design this paper. The ribbon isn’t one of the official coordinating colors but I liked it on the card anyway. The ribbon is the Old Olive/Pretty Peacock Reversible Ribbon. This is a very pretty ribbon with two colors and a sheen to it! It’s been very popular!

I don’t have a greeting on my card yet. Actually, I think it looks very full and pretty without a greeting, but mainly I thought I would wait and see what greeting I want when I send the card. It could be a thank you or birthday or thinking of you or almost any occasion. I could even leave it plain and just write a friendly note inside.

Inside the card I adhered a layer of Very Vanilla to make it easier to write or stamp a greeting. When I saw a strip of the same designer paper laying on the table, I cut it a little narrower and adhered it to the bottom of the Very Vanilla so there will be a little extra prettiness inside the card! Very often you might want to stamp the layer inside or add a strip of designer paper to match or coordinate with the front of the card.

Here is a different way to use another pattern of the Pressed Petals DSP, making a gift bag and small card.

This paper also comes with two sheets of a collage of smaller pieces that you can cut apart and use various ways.

Put the Pressed Petals Washi Tape on your next order so you can play with making flowers with this washi tape for your cards and projects!