Fabric Flower Necklace Tutorial {& a PARTY!}

ByMichele McDonald
88 Comments
The party is over and we have our winners! Click here to see who won!
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Who's ready to celebrate with me? 100 blog followers!! Yeah!
We're going to start the party off with a quick tutorial for making fabric flower necklaces.
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Ready?
Then let's get started!
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You will need to make however many rolled roses you want to use in the necklace. I'm going to use three.
If you don't know how to make rolled roses, Portabello Pixie has a great tutorial here.
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Stitch the flowersΒ together. Be sure and stitch up the sides between the flowers, too. We don't want any flopping around!
Don't worry if it looks messy. We'll cover that up later!
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Here are my three flowers stitched together. Go ahead and add any pearls or buttons to the flowers. You can stitch them on or attach them with glue.
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Turn your necklace back over to the back and cut a piece of similarly colored strip of felt that would be able to completely cover the back.
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Stitch or glue the felt to the back of the flowers.
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Trim off any excess felt.
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Add the necessary hardware to your necklace. You can use beads, chain, ribbon, or whatever else you come up with to make the flowers into a necklace.
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Viola! A unique piece of jewelry!
Okay, on with the party!
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To celebrate this milestone of the blog we're going to play a little game.
And we're going to have 2 winners!
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For the first part of the game:
1. Leave a comment telling me how many fabric flowers you think I have been hoardingΒ in this glass jar. The first one to guess the correct number wins!

ONE GUESS PER PERSON! Only your first guess will count if you guess more than once.

The winner who guesses the correct number will receive this:
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Ooooooh!
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Aaaaaah!
I'm infatuated with the fabric used in the middle rolled rose. Its a fun turquoise, cream, and brown. Love it!
This necklace ties on with a sheer brown ribbon so you can adjust it to any length you like.
To be in the running for the 2nd winner:
1. Become a follower of The Scrap Shoppe Blog and leave a comment that you're a follower or are already a follower.
2. Tweet about this giveaway and leave a commentΒ here that you tweeted. Click here to tweet now!

***Β Leave separate comments for each of the above actions to increase your chances of winning!

The second winner will get to pick a flower from the jar AND chooseΒ a digital download from my Etsy storeΒ (including the cupcake toppers I showed off last weekend!).
I can put the flower you choose on a small alligator clip, pinback, bobby pin, or leave it as is with just the felt backing.
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Things to know
1. The giveaway will close on Saturday,Β April 24, 2010 at midnight EST (any entries after that will not be considered).
2. The second winner will be randomlyΒ chosen using the random number generator from random.org.

3. The winner will be announced next Sunday, April 25th. If I don't hear from the winners within a week,Β new winners will be chosen.

Thanks for partying with me!

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88 Comments

  1. love your creations , i think you have 23 flowers in your little glas jar , have a pink rainbow day
    georgia from ohio

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  5. I am so glad I found your blog and you have so many fun tutorials here I would like to try! I love these even though late for party, I shall enjoy anyway!

    Thanks for all your share!

    Smiles, Cyndi

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  7. Thank you for joining my hodgepodge party! I love it! I hope you will join again.
    ~Gay~
    itsahodgepodgelife.blogspot.com

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  9. GORGEOUS!!! This is stunning! Great tutorial!!! Sorrry I missed the giveaway!

    Thanks for linking up!

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  10. Michele, your necklace is beautiful!! and i'm so sad i missed your giveaway contest! πŸ™ Thanks for joining the Craftaholics Anonymous party! I had fun stopping by and checking out your craftiness!
    Linda

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  11. I just became a follower. So glad I found your blog. Thanks so much.

    Denise Foor
    denise_in_pa at embarqmail dot com

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  12. My guess is 28. I love these. My first visit to your blog. Off to sign up.

    Denise Foor
    denise_in_pa at embarqmail dot com

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  15. I love this!

    Thanks for linking up to Saturday is Crafty Day @ along for the ride! Hope to see you back next week!

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  24. AHHH i have to make this!
    I can just picture all of the clothes I could wear this with....EXCITING!
    Thanks for sharing.

    xoxo
    bB

    p.s. Im a new follower!

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  28. Oh my... I stopped by to thank you for the sweet comment on my blog and behold... what a darling blog you have! And I'm digging these flowers. I've had "make a flower necklace" on my to do list for waaayyy to long. I need to get on it.
    I'm going to take a guess here... I say 27 in the jar;)

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  33. I guess 15? πŸ™‚

    That necklace is just divine!!! And the jar too! πŸ™‚
    Thanks for stopping by Bird Crafts and for your sweet comment!

    Hugs,
    Bird

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  36. I love that teal and brown flower - such a good combination!

    Thanks for linking at Lucky Star Lane!

    Reply

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