Dough flowers

FLOWERS FOR FOREVER

Flowers always make people better, 

happier, and more helpful; 

they are sunshine, 

food and medicine for the soul.

This is such a reality that I think no one can deny it. 

Flower makes you happy from your heart ... 

a beautiful Rose,

a fragrant Jasmine, 

a Lotus swims on water 

all those beauties gives your heart a true sense of happiness,

and nothing can be compare to it.

But before I start my tutorial I want to say

 THANK YOU 

to

GINGER KNOX

author of

SAVANNAH GRANNY
who honoured me with

I am very much Thankful for her love for me.

SAVANNAH GRANNY

Visit her blog, I am sure you will enjoy her
pleasant and lively way of blogging.
Love you very much Ginger


My today's post is about flowers,

but they are neither fresh flowers nor the silk flowers

they are hand made dough flowers.

There are several methods and doughs for making flowers,

like Italian dough, ceramic powder, porcelain and bread dough as well.

I am here giving you a tutorial of Italian dough, 

because first of all its cheap on your budget

and as beginner it is better to work on it.

First we are going to make Italian dough 

and than I will show you how to do the flowers

Now lets start with making the dough

 Things you required

1 cup Cornflour

1 cup white glue

1 tsp glycerin

1/2 tsp Petroleum Jelly

 1 tsp lemon juice

 1/2 cup water

 First beat the glue, water, glycerin, lemon juice and
 petroleum jelly. Beat it very well that no lumps remains.

Now add cornflour and beat again for more mixing.

You can see clearly the consistency of the better.

Now start cooking, first cook on low flame and

when you feel that your dough become thick and

 forms lumps than increase the flame and stir consistently.

You will not stop stirring for a moment even.

And don't you worry if you feel that dough is not smooth.

After 2 to 3 minutes of high flame cooking you see that 

dough leave the corner and come into a shape of a ball.

When it is perfect? Simply touch the dough if it don't stick

on your finger, it is time to off the stove.

When it is perfect? Simply touch the dough if it don't stick

on your finger, it is time to off the flame.

 Now grease a polythene bag and put the dough in it,

  and over the bag knead it well, now your dough is ready.

Keep it in bag otherwise it will become dry,

it can be store up to 2 weeks.

Now we are ready to start making flower, 
here I want to mention some more things.

 Oil colours will be the priority, otherwise you can use

acrylics, water colours (tubes), even powdered food colour.

Some different colours stamens, different leaf cutters (optional).

Oil colours will become darker after drying so try a little amount.

 Always use Petroleum jelly when you feel it become sticky.

One more thing to remember... 

what colour you want to make just add a bit white always, 

it will give your flowers an opaque touch, 

otherwise they look bit transparent.
I added white with red for pink shade and 
green with white for leaves.

Here you can see the four colours
white, lemon, pink and green



Take a little bit of dough and make a ball 
and than press it in the shape for the inner bud of the rose.

Roll it like this, now your inner bud is ready, 
put it aside.

Now its the turn to make petals for the rose.

First make a ball than than transfer that ball into a tear shape,

and lastly in a petal as I show you in the above picture.

After the bud we need 3 petals for the first round, here you can see

that I attache only one side of the petal to the bud.

The second will be attached to the bud 

from almost to the half of the first petal 

and than first petal overlap the second one 

and in the same sequence the third petal also sticked.

It is the rose of three petals, by this picture you understand 

that how three petals overlap each other one by one.

 One thing that when you attached petals to the bud, 

be careful that your petals will not go up the bud.

They should be on the same height as of the bud is.

If you want to make a big flower 

than you should need 5 more petals for the second round.

As I completed my rose with the next round of 5 petals

with the same method.

Leaves ... 

Press the dough on a smooth surface with a roller and 

used  cutter for the shape of leaf.

But don't worry you can do it also with any knife, just mark

the shape of leaf on the dough and lift it up

Its a leaf printer, if you press the dough leaf on it the

print of veins appear on the leaf.

It can also be done by any fresh leaf which has very

prominent veins.

The method of drying the leaves ...

Take a newspaper and ruffled it roughly. 

Now it has a wavy effect when you open it.

Dry your leaves on it for a day, 

it gives your leaves a very natural look

Here you can see the different flowers, leaves and fillers to make

an arrangement.

Always used white glue because it will become transparent 

after drying, so there will no sign of  anything except your flowers.

On the second option you can use hot glue also.

 &

Always allow 24 hours for drying for individual 

flowers and leaves and 2 days for an arrangement.

This arrangement is made on a tile, normal ceramic tile.

.

It is on black glass.

Another rose arrangement...

First the frame is made than I arrange flowers on it.

Now I want to share some individual leaves and fillers for a closer look

Leaves with different shapes and vein pattern

The pink portion of these buds I made by the 

pressing of dough with a simple net.

A carnation, it made with three layers on a bud inside.

Hope you enjoyed today's post and may be give it a try,

its nothing difficult in it, I tried to write each and every little tip about

Italian Dough's making.

If still you have something to clear which make confusion,

please asked me here or via e-mail. I will reply you and try to solve the problem

Waiting for your love and opinions anxiously

HAPPY CRAFTING

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