EASTER
SHADOW BOX SECTION 5: FLOWERS OF SPRING
PART
3: IRIS
Iris
has always been a favorite garden flower.
There are many varieties and different colors…shades of purples, blues,
and white and yellow. Here I have made a
simple lavender, bearded variety but do explore others.
You will
need: #30 cloth covered wire + ¼” round
paper punch or ¼” long petal shaped paper punch + lightweight paper in your
choice of colors (purples, lavenders, blues, yellows, white) You may also
choose to color your own iris paper using an ombre method (a shading from light
to dark) + medium ball stylus + yellow
acrylic paint & small pointed paintbrush (if you are adding beards) + scrap
of thin Fun-Foam + medium ball stylus or metal nail file (using the
tapered/pointed tip) + fine pointed tweezers Crafter’s Pick The Ultimate glue +
green floral tape + leaf green color acrylic paint + medium weight leaf green
paper
Instructions:
Cut
wire to needed lengths and dip the tip of one end into golden yellow acrylic
paint. Poke into a scrap of Styrofoam to
dry.
These
flowers have three inner erect petals that surround the stamen and three outer
sepals between the petals that curve back.
To create the petals and sepals you may choose to fold/crease a piece of
your chosen paper, measure and mark a line 1/16” away from the fold/crease and
then use a ¼” round paper as shown.
Or
you may use the paper punch as shown or something similar to create the
petals/sepals.
If
you are adding beards to your sepals, use a small pointed paintbrush to feather
yellow paint out from the pointed end of the three sepals…I suggest you look
closely at actual photos. As seen, I
just paint an illusion but if you are so inclined you may be more precise with
the beard or markings.
Lay
the petals and sepals on the fun foam, bearded side of sepals face down. Using a stylus or similar tool, “draw” lines
down each edge and then the center of each petal and sepal, causing them to
curve and curl.
Using
fine pointed tweezers pick up a prepared petal by the rounded end, dip the very
tip of the pointed end in glue & place on a prepared stem, just below the
painted stamen. Add two more petals in
the same manner, evenly spacing them from each other and in an almost upright position.
Pick
up sepals in the same manner, add glue to tip and place them on the stem just
under the petals & in-between the petals, so they are curving out and
slightly down.
For
the ovaries cut 1/16” wide by ½” long pieces of floral tape and gently stretch
them out. Wrap one around a stem just up
from the bottom. Use fingertip to shape
it into a slightly elongated ball. Push
it up the stem until it snugs up to the underside of the flower.
Use
leaf green acrylic paint to blend the ovary and stem and to slightly feather up
and out on the bottom of the flower.
Iris
leaves are cut and prepared as was described previously for the daffodil and
narcissus leaves but with a more pointed, sword-like shape. Leaves may be attached to a flower stem or
surround the potted flowers.
Unopened
buds are made by wrapping ¼” wide by ½” long pieces of green floral tape around
the stop of a stem, stretching the tape as you wrap. Use finger tips to form the top into a
point. Add an ovary as described above
right under the bud and then use green paint to meld bud, ovary, and stem
together.
Partially
open buds are created by adding glue to the face of a petal and wrapping it
around the stop of a stem. Add 3 or more
petals in this manner, depending on how open you want the bud, and then pinch
and roll the top to a point. Add an ovary. Use leaf green paint to meld
everything together, letting the paint go up in points on the petals.
As with the
Daffodil and Narcissus, Iris may be potted, as is seen here, planted in a
landscape, or used in flower arrangements by themselves or with other spring
flowers. Surround stems by lots of leaves,
which should be of a height just short of the blossom or shorter. I used a clay pot filled with unbaked, scrap
Fimo. The Fimo was coated with a layer
of glue and fine dust from sphagnum moss (bottom of package?) was pressed
on. Holes were poked in the “soil” to
take the flower stems and after they were in place buds and partially open blossoms
were added. Leaves filled in space in
and around.
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Here
are some real-life images & illustrations to help inspire you to add miniature
Iris to your collection.
ARRANGEMENT BY CARL STARKERS
1953
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I will be
back soon with the Daffodils, Narcissus and Iris in place in the 5th
section of The Easter Shadowbox. BTW you may
be interested in making some other spring blooms too…
Calla Lilies, Pussy Willow, Forsythia…if
so they are to be found in my Easter Peddler’s Cart, Basket & Bunnies
Now just one more section
to go…like the flowers it will be miniatures that can be used in many scenes or
added to a collection.
Joann
Wonderful! Thanks for the tutorial.
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Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!!!
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ReplyDeleteEspectacular el resultado. Saludos.
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ReplyDeleteWow,they are beautiful! Thank you for the tutorial,
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Татьяна
thank you, your iris are beautiful
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ReplyDeleteCan you help me? Where I can buy these paper punch?
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ReplyDeleteUn tutorial estupendo, muchas gracias, las flores son preciosas!!
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Isabel
I saw your post on Facebook and am checking out your blog. I love the flowers! It looks like something you might see a the Philadelphia Flower Show!
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I have beeen looking everywhere for the way to do the Iris. Thank you so much for your time and help I can't wait to do my own.
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