Apologies, Foamiran Flowers...let's have a go!

Hello friends

Firstly apologies ....

if you tried to purchase the charity kit yesterday.

By lunchtime we realised the website was saying £5 min order.

Panic ensued! Oh no, my crafty folk are going to think I'm making

them spend more on the website!! 

I'm pleased to say Elliott worked on the website and altered this

so it is now possible to purchase the kit £4.50, free postage.

Seriously, this techy stuff will be the death of me! 

Now back to calm crafting stuff...

Following on from Friday Die Day featuring Cinch and Go Flowers III,

I thought I would show you how this die works with 

Foamiran.

Firstly have you heard of Foamiran?

If not, I'll do my best to explain... it feels like a mix of paper and fun foam

but much thinner.  It can be cut with scissors, dies and punches.

It can then be heated using a heat gun or an iron.

Here's a You Tube video that I found that shows great detail.

(She uses way more stamens than me!) 

I purchased a small supply of Foamiron through Amazon 

just to experiment with and it was fun! 

It die cuts perfectly and comes in a variety of colours.

I chose white because I wanted to add distress inks.

You can also use pens, inks etc.

It is worth noting that once heated the colours do change a little.

Here is the same flower at varying stages of heating.

If you flip them over they heat the other way to create tiny buds if you wish.

I did not use an iron I chose to use my heat gun because I have one of those 

in the cabin (ironing never gets done in there!)

I think possibly you have a more even curl if you use an iron.

They remind me of oriental flowers, not quite silk or paper, something in between.

I clustered them on a card front with Gossamer Knot die cut.

(Gossamer Knot back in stock here).

Interesting how the colour shrinks away from the edges so you have that white surround

for each petal.  Bound to be a baffling scientific reason for that!

I did try the leaves but they squished up very small when heated but I'm really

happy with the flowers.

Items used today with clickable links where possible: 

Foamiron (available Amazon and elsewhere)

Gossamer Knot

Cinch and Go Flowers III

Take care friends and wishing you a great start to the week.