Flowers convey lots of different feelings and sentiments in card making crafts and stamping projects. Silk and paper flowers are an ideal medium for using with your clear hobby rubber stamps to theme scrapbook art and card making crafts. The effects are elegant and simple to accomplish! Adding silk flowers that have been enhanced with rubber stamping techniques is not only easy but creates additional texture and interest in your creative projects and ideas.

On this page you will learn how to use silk and paper flowers as a stamping medium. Examples of card making crafts and other applications are pictured below the instructional material.

 Choosing the silk flower

When clear stamping on silk flowers, you will find that the stamped images will show up best on pastel or white petals.  It is simple to use darker colors for contrast.

To begin, select the flowers that go best with your project considering petal size and shape.  Slide all the pieces off stem to separate the petal layers.  Discard the plastic pieces.

Using your clear stamps and clear acrylic stamping blocks, stamp your chosen image on the petals.  You may wish to stamp down the center of each petal or stamp the design evenly over the entire surface of each petal.  Background clear stamps will stamp larger parts of each silk flower, where border clear stamps are great for stamping a patterned strip down the center of each petal.  Stamping in one color or multiple colors will add yet more variety on your silk flowers.

To attach your stamped flower to your paper, simply punch a small hole where you desire the center of your flower.  Use a large brad or combination of round paper layers with a smaller brad to form the center of your flower.  You may wish to clear stamp leaves or use silk leaves for foliage.

 Clear stamping on silk flowers will add a new dimension to your scrapbooking and clear stamping projects.  It’s not only easy but FUN!

NOTE: The above silk flower stamping techniques are also ideal for paper scrapbooking flowers.