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Pansy Floral Tutorial
Apologies to those
WetCanvas folks to whom I promised this would be done two days ago...
Please bear with me on
this as I am in Atlanta at the moment at a trade show. The morning I left
for the show I made a pansy bead and photographed the steps as I
went. The pictures vary wildly in quality but you can get an idea of
what I did. The real tragedy is that when I went back home to get my
suitcase for the trip, I got the bead, cleaned it, and then LEFT IT ON MY
COUNTER! So you'll have to wait until Feb. 20th for the actual
bead. I do have a picture of the first one that looked remotely like
a pansy and then the second pansy bead I made (a bit overly ambitious and
I was so sick of it by the time I had finished the pansies, that I forgot
to dimple the bottom petals, but again I think it's worth showing as a
stepping stone in my progress on this bead.
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| Start
with a base bead of your choice. For the purple pansy, I start
with two dots of periwinkle placed reasonably close to each other
with some room on either side. Partially melt them in. |
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| Add
dots on top of the periwinkle ones in ink blue. |
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| Melt
them flat. This is important because you don't want them to
cause the other petals to distort. |
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| Add
two periwinkle dots slightly overlapping and to the outside of the
original ones. Add another larger dot to form a triangle. The
important part of this step is placement and size of the
dots. The two smaller ones should be about the same size as
the original dots. Partially melt them in. |
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| Add
ink blue dots over the periwinkle ones and partially melt them in.
Focus the heat in the center between the dots. You want to
start to draw the three dots together and the heat will begin that
process. |
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| Add
black dots on the center edges of each of the three dots. Slowly
melt these three dots flat. Again, pay careful attention to the
center. It's OK if they don't exactly meet as we will finish
that process in the next step. |
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| Super-heat
the center of the flower and plunge a yellow stringer into the
middle of the flower. Let it cool enough that you can break it off
(if you flame-cut the stringer, your stamen will be much more
pronounced. This will finish drawing the petals together. |
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| This
is what it should look like after you have broken the stamen off. |
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| Pull
a point from a periwinkle stringer. Heat the bottom of the large
petal and use the stringer to dimple the petal slightly.
At this
point you can melt the flower flat or encase it, whichever you
prefer.
I'd love to
have a picture of the finished bead, but you'll have to wait a few
days... |
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