Flower Pounding for Prints

1. Introduction : Tataki zooming, an ancient Japanese printmaking technique, also known as Flower Pounding or hammering. Using an hammer to pound flower dyes onto fabric and paper to reveal the transferring of natural flower dye colors onto beautiful projects. Tataki Zome can be applied to any season, anywhere in the world where beautiful flowers and leaves blue. This is a simple to do, perfect for beginners. Easy to create class with no special skills required, except using a hammer safely to pound away onto fabric or paper to create spectacular Floral and Botanical patterns onto Wall Art, Birthday Cards, Bookmarks, Gift Tags, Cotton Napkins and Tea Towels for your home. This is an Art Full technique useful to use for Art and Junk Journaling. It's a great way to capture flowers from your vacation spot onto your travel journals. This is an ancient technique so relevant today that it just won't stop flower Pounding for Prints and Decor in your everyday life. I hope to see you in class to explore different projects using this ancient Japanese technique of Tataki Zome 2. Supplies: The first supply you'll need for this Class is a sturdy hammer, which are comfortable for your hands. I chose to use the smallest size hammer, which was a light weight, and I could easily use it for a longer period of time. Hemos are measured by ounces. I used an eight ounce hammer for this entire project. So next, we'll need some cotton or linen fabric. I used 100% Cotton Fabric for all the projects in this class. I used a mix of thick and thin. We've caught him. So choose a Cotton that you prefer. You have a choice if you prefer, you can also use a heavier stock paper instead of using fabric. Now, we can't use our hammer fabric and papers without flowers, as they are the source of our dyes. You can use any flowers you have around you, which have thin petals and a vibrant in color. If you have some flowers growing in a pot, try these for this project. Oscar neighbors, if they can spare a few petals or just visit you Trustee garden center, or just take a walk and look for flower petals in different kinds of botanicals to pound for your project. Next, you'll need some sort of like plastic. Here we have a plastic container which you can cut off the bottom to get a foot plastic cover. This will be used to cover our flowers before we pound on them. You can use any plastic besides this. We don't have plastic. You can very easily use paper towel. For this class. I used both plastic and paper towel for most of their projects. They both worked brilliantly. In this class. We pounded flowers on a napkin, but you can easily transfer this technique onto a Cotton Tea Towel for your kitchen. Now, for pounding on paper, we will need an envelope, some Greeting Cards, stock, Bookmark, and a Gift Tag. And please note, you can easily create your own card stock Bookmark and Gift Tags at home with heavier stock paper. And you'll need a Coffee sleeve from somewhere. And Also, we'll be using watercolor paper. I will only need to use what? Your watercolor paper is optional. So next we'll need some Ribbons or Bakers Twine. So you don't need to go out and buy them. If you have any bits and pieces at home that you can repurpose again, please do that. And this will be, of course, for our bookmark and Gift Tags. So the remaining supplies we need now, or just our Masking Tape. And any double sided adhesive or glue eraser, a pencil, scissors, and a whole patch. This Hole Punch will be used for our bookmark and Gift Tags. And then we'll need some green Paint and we won't be using too much. It will be very small amount. So it can be any shade of green. You can either use a light cream color or dark green color. All you can mix these colors are completely and make a brilliant color. Next, we will need a cutting board. So if you haven't all cutting board laying around, use that or something where you can hammer on top of the last supply. We need our Frames, and you can use any size frame you prefer to display your work in. A quick tip here. If you don't want to buy a frame, you can repurpose all Frames you have at home. You can also very easily use matching Frames to create a three-piece Wall Art for your home decor 3. Measuring Fabric to Frame: I wanted to start this project with three White Frames as I wanted to create a set. And in it I wanted to pound a mix of flowers in botanicals. In the next couple of videos, we will work on these three White Framed pieces before moving onto other exciting projects. So here I have laid out my piece of cotton fabric. And on it, I'm just going to assemble my frame. And remember your frame can be any size you like. And you can apply this same method that you'll be seeing in this video. Now you can also use this plastic cover for what I'll be doing next. However, I'm just going to put it aside for now. And I'm just going to take the back of my frame and I'm going to place it down onto my fabric. So here you can see with my pencil, I'm doing an outline which will serve as our guide. And within these lines, and sometimes out of the lines will pound or Flowers in botanicals. So I'm just going to turn my fabric around. And I'm just going to take my scissors. And I'm just going to cut along the pencil lines, but keep a few inches from it, so don't cut on top of the lines. I'm keeping a little bit of space from the lines. So just a couple of inches. Because the reason why we're doing is is we need enough space to fold it extra piece and place it inside all frame. So no matter what size frame you are using, this is how it will actually be looking if you've measured out the squareness of your frame onto your fabric or onto your paper. This is how it should look, is a very simple procedure and very quick to do 4. Hammering Delightful Pansies: So here's my Pre cut fabric that I did from before. And Pre cut three of these sites are three of these for my Frames. And I just can't wait to get started on my first one. Now there are so many flowers around us that transfer that cause brilliantly onto fabric and paper. Pansies are one of those special ones that never, ever disappoint because of their exuberant colors and thin textured petals. Actually make them highly popular. And we'll all pound is. So here I'm just adding to place my first yellow pansy right-side down. Now, don't worry if you see those tiny branches here and my Pansies. I purposely left it there to see how it looks when I pound. And I'm using Vibrant Coloured Pansies and different sizes as well to create some sort of a visual pattern. So you can place your followers in a pet, in a pattern that you like. I'm happy with the way this is looking like now. Then what we'll do is we'll place our cut out plastic cover on top. So you can also use a paper towel as well, which I also use. However, I favor using the clear plastic most times because this way I can see how my Pounding is progressing. So I'm going to take, and I'm going to start Pounding right around the flowers. And because these flowers have thin petals, I don't have to work too hard to pound, pound around the flowers of few times to make sure that is enough bruising by the hammer to transfer the GI onto the fabric. I tried to concentrate on the edges of the petals. This way the outline of the flower will be Vibrant and obvious of its shape. In don't hesitate to go back and pound again. If you feel like it needs it. What you are doing is really bruising the flower petals to transfer the natural dye onto either fabric or paper. And as you continue to pound, you'll start seeing through the plastic that the petals are just releasing the liquid dyes and everything is just getting wet. If you see that, this is pretty much normal, so don't worry about it, you're heading the right direction. So while I continue to pound away, I just wanted to quickly mention here that it's best to do this outside. Especially the weather is warm. It's such a great activity to get everyone involved to make their own projects. And it's great to do with kids as well. As long as the adult is hammering for younger kids or child who's old enough to handle safely within the supervision of their parents. Now this is such a therapeutic activity. You feel great after doing it and the project for your home or gift to give away. As you see here, I'm just going to take off this thick branch of out from the center and cover back with the plastic on top. Again. Now, this part here has an orbital with thickness in the center. So I'm going to pound it a thickness down first and then I've gone back and then my, my circle right around. So if you've come across flowers that have like thick centers like this one, do the set thick center first and then do you round circles around just so that it flares of flower out nicely. This way you're ensuring the color transfer well onto your paper or fabric. Fine part after you've pounded everything. All you need to do now is just have to peck at the edges with your fingers a little bit. After all the Pounding, they get wet and stick onto the fabric. I'm just going to slowly roll and prod the Petals bank. Now I'm soy bothers shadow. But you'll be able to still a bit more clearly as I pull back yet and you see the color transfer on this is amazing 5. Mixed Pansies & Ferns: Now I've just started to pull back on the smaller Pansies. And you can see how vibrant the large Purple Pansies turned out. So I'm going to continue pulling the smaller Pansies. And I'm always actually so excited to pull back on the petals. And I know you will too, because you really don't know sometimes how the color transfer we look. Some and sometimes you'll be pleasantly surprised from the unexpected. This is the one I eagerly waiting to see the results. Because I saw this the garden sudden, I'm thinking I really need to see how this looks. Well, that came out not bad at all. So after you've pulled out all the petals, they're transferred petals might still feel a little wet. So when that happens, I just take a paper towel and I down here and there just to likely try it. As I'm doing this, actually, my mind is rushing as to what can I pound more to fill this fabric up? Because I feel I want to fill up some of the white areas. Here. I decided to pound. Ferns and France are quite popular to pound because of their distinct shapes. And they do leave a wonderful impression on paper and fabric. So all you do is just your place, your Ferns or any other leaf you using stem site down the right side, up. And like I've gone on hikes and I found interesting leaves and stems that I bought back to pound and I'm really enjoying doing this. And the best part of Tataki Zome me. He said there are no rules. You pound whatever flower leaf you want in whichever pattern that you like. And doing this journey, you'll see what works best and give, and what gives you vibrant colors, designs, and patterns. I really enjoyed Pounding these Ferns. I really did. I just tried to make sure I hit all the corners and the center. Don't ever worry, you can always go back and double up a little bit more. Although areas you don't think you Pounded enough on. Let's just see how this looks. There you go. I hope you like what you see because I really liked this. I'm just going to continue doing more. This is how it all works now. And before actually frame this piece. And I'll be showing you how I frame it later on. What I did was I just took a light to a warm line and it just very lightly on the upside down of the fabric. Not they're not the right side where we pounded, but on the other side, the back part of this fabric, I just took it in to it and unlikely I ended just to straighten out any wrinkles. And you can do this. They're very easily. And in case you're wondering, there was no leakage of dye set pretty well, but you can, of course, you can watch this fabric Buzzfeed wash. It is natural, Diana come out and this is how it looks when it's all Framed. And what the best part of Tataki Zome me. He said you can change up your fabrics anytime of the season. You can alternate your designs for, for, for summer, for spring. And I think that's the best way to, best and versatile way actually to decorate your home with florals and botanicals and give you walls and natural look. 6. Japanese Maple Leaves & Pink Impatiens: So I'm starting off on our second of fabric piece here. This will be for our second white frame. And I'm using a Hot Pink Greaniums sewing up. There are Impatiens, not geraniums. And I really liked the colors like it's Rui so deep. And I know it will transfer perfectly onto on my fabric. If we ever find that your petals have broken off, just like I've done here. Just placing back into its spot next to another petal and Pounded and no one will ever know it actually broke apart. So that's always a good trick to know. The next thing we'll be doing, the next row. I just wanted to use japanese Maple Leaves. And they transfer very nicely to these ones. I'm just going to actually put them, the vein side down and the right side up. So anytime you do flower petals, you put the rights, the beautiful, the right side, the beautiful part down in the back part of and full Leaves. You put the backpack down and the right side up should always be showing that way if you're guaranteed a beautiful transfer. And for the third row, I'm just using these large yellow Pansies. Usually very light colors and, or white petals or yellow colors don't, they do transfer but not as bright. And depending on the shaded is because a deeper shade, it'll transfer nicely. So just be aware of that. But some white petals have believed, surprised me. I've pounded white Pansies with loop purples in the middle. And it actually came out quite nicely, like you do transfer. Beautiful. And it was surprised because I thought whiteboard and transfer it is nicely. So it's still, the trick really is to just try as many flowers. It you can pound to see which one works. That's the best part is that we live in different parts of the world. Any different variety of flower that maybe somebody North America wouldn't know about. So this is really a very cool technique. You might not see this brings to really getting wet under the plastic here, I'm using a clear plastic instead of my heart plastic container. And you can just see the transpire. Can just see if if you look a little bit closely, we able to see as you pound yourself, we able to see how the color goes on to the thread, onto the texture of the fabric. And some leaves will need a little bit more Pounding, a lot more Pounding than the flowers. Because sometimes I find it in the Leaves and it'll be dense. And just looking at this yellow one, you can see it getting bruised and it, It's assuring us that, hey, hey, I'm getting all the fabric okay. Is getting into the fibers of the fabric. That's a good indication that you're getting a good transfer. You'll be able to see it as you pound. Then it's getting into the fibers of the fabric. I'm just going to carefully lift this. So as I remove the dried crushed petals, what I'll do is I'll just give dabbing. Each pedal is I go just because it just became so wet. And it's surprising how these petals have so much liquid in them. And you don't realize until you actually pound. Just peeling back the japanese Maple Leaves here. Just trying to reveal the shape and the color here. And it seems like it seems pretty light. So it shows me that I should have Pounded a little bit more stronger. Oh, my heart actually stronger than the world. I should have pound a little bit more harder. For some names. If you feel like it's not as vibrant enough. The way weights come out in the wave shape is. So you can actually go back and pound a lot more harder way, a little bit more force on your hammer to reveal those really strong colors. But I still like the way it turned out. I mean, it looks beautiful here is every, every frame has its special story and special colors 7. Hammering Hot Pink Greaniums: This is my last piece for my setup, three White Frames. And I thought I wanted to go with a bag with these Hot Pink geraniums. And ever since I got these from the garden center, I was so excited to see how we will look on fabric and on paper. So I'm just going to start here. Just snip off just the tips here. And I'm of each of the geraniums and just look how beautiful this is a more deeper Hot Pink, a center. And it has like sheets or dark and light pink touches a light pink here and there on the edges. This is really, really excited to do is just, it looks so beautiful. I'm going to start placing this in a pattern that I like, reading a cleaving two rows. And then I'm just going to pound it and see how it looks. So if you come across geraniums, if you've come across a color like this, you can really think of so many ways to present it on your fabric. So while I'm pounding these geraniums, I just wanted to another video in here, which is a video of a geranium I did on paper. So just wanted you to quickly see this while I pound on this one. I did this geranium on paper. And I just took the whole long Stemmed and I saw affects everything around. So if you need to pick some petals out, you can print the bottom and then just covered up with your plastic and just hammer away. And this was very exciting for me. I just hammered away like crazy. And I did all the stamps as well, the long Stemmed. Just so that I wanted to see how the impression came out of that. And take everything I look at that. And he said that color, amazing, chest, beautiful, just beautiful indeed. Anyways, I hope you like that. So getting back to our original project, I'm just finishing up the last petal here and just see how it looks now, this is the best part, the reveal. Oh yes, I can see the color noise, how the petals are like white marks in-between. That's actually because I'm holding the hammer at a slot. So you how much should never be at a slot? It should be just touching flat. Like when you going down on your fabric or paper should just be going down flat. Who hammering it flat. Worse for me. I'm just sort of I think my right-hand is it'll be weak so I can go as hard on it. So I have a tendency to solve slant, my hammer saw, EPC, those white marks in-between your petals like you see for mine. You'll know that it's your hammer. You're just slanting it to one side. But I still like it. I'm not complaining. Absolutely not. Like I just loved this. This is so magical. It really is this Technique. Tataki Zome zooming technique actually is the Japanese technique. I love it. I wish I had started on this earlier. The last time, the first time actually I saw this was this technique being used was by my Art teacher and a, and at that time I don't think I was really interested in in Flower Pounding really. When you're 15 years old or 13, 14 years old, I wasn't really interested, but I thought was really cool. But now I'm just crazy for this technique. And I hope that when you do this project and you try out the different flowers and leaves, that you get as much happiness in Delightful illness. Like I felt doing this project. This is the exciting part. We have finally finished our tweet fabrics that we pounded on flowers on three different varieties. And this is what we've got so far. In the next video, I'll be showing how, how I frame. And then after that, we're onto other amazing projects. So I'll see you in the next video. 8. 3 White Framed Wall Art: In this video, we're just going to be finishing up. And I'm going to be framing or geranium. The pencil line that we did earlier in the beginning of the class. I'm just going to fold my fabric on the other side of the back part of my geranium. So I'm just going to run my finger across my line, along my pencil line. You can is this if you prefer? I'm just using my fingers to straighten it out. I'm just going to put some masking tape. It it sits flush against the fabric. I'm just using the pencil as my guide. Falling, falling, falling the fabric inward. My actual design is flat on the table. So make sure that you don't do it the other way round. So this is the right-side-up. And then I'm just going to see where my folders this side. And you know how he wrapped gifts. One is here because I wanted to sit flush against the frame. I'm just going to fold it at an angle like this and just fold it in from both sides. And just put some tape. Just what everything looks nice and neat. And when it goes inside the frame, you just sit in it nicely without having, without having any fabric poking out on the corners. And just do the same thing to the other side. A good time to cut away any stray Cotton Fabric. And then just take your your fabric and put it, place it against the glass. I haven't in this. Just to show you. So when you do yours do in it so that you'll take out all the crinkled up the fabric. So that's how it then if you need to reinforce with some all or Tape, we can do that right now. Just so it doesn't unfold. So we want to just make sure it's nice and secure. All the four sides and everything seems to sit flush against the frame. Then we just put up put up the backing and cons everything in on all the four sides. So you can do this to whichever size way that you are using. This is how it all looks. Then you have a three White Framed Wall Art. The best part of these Framed Wall Art is that it captures your happiness from a particular day. Like you can easily pound your wedding bouquet of flowers given by someone special. Or you can just create like a large scale of pounded flowers for your home or your office. Or just make a lovely gift to give you a mom or your friends. So I really hope you enjoyed this section because we will be coming back later. Do two more Wall Art Decor 9. Hammered Gift Tags: So for this section will be heavily on a Gift Tag. And I loved Gift Tags and I'm sure there's so many people are double love it equally as I do. And this is such a great way to make a Gift Tag unique to the person you're giving it to. So I thought, okay, let's just try with them. The best flowers I've experienced to this project versus being geraniums. So I thought, okay, let's just pound one single Pink geranium pedal and see what the result is. And let's start, let's start doing this. And I hope you do try this at home. If you enjoy it, I know you will. You'll probably end up pounding a whole bunch of Gift Tags for like weddings or birthdays, which come more often in our lives, and maybe weddings and Christmas time, like Christmas Tags with Winter flowers. I can see all this Vibrant Purple underneath that, all these Pink Palace and look at that way this is coming out. This makes me so happy to see workout like this, so nice and I hope you find the same happen is I'm finding right else's beautiful, so beautiful. Now I just wanted to do this. I wanted to put a section where I wanted to wrap a gift or asphaltene and attach our newly made Pink geranium Gift Tags. As far as this show you how beautiful it looks when it's when everything is wrapped up in the Gift Tag is on a gift, so I need a few here. This was a rather impatient sided. So I'm just going to work with the one we just have it. I'll ping geranium. Can depends whichever gift you rapping no matter what size, it doesn't matter whether you're using and you can use a rivet or you can use Bakers Twine. I'm just using a very simple soft ribbon here, making it a nod. And I'm just going to put my Gift Tag and right through, take the center and just make a lot. You can tie a bow as well if you prefer. Let's make it really pretty any see how already it just has elevated the whole entire gift. So this is just beautiful way to present a birthday gift for either special occasions, for weddings, mess. You can do Winter flowers and whatever is available for Winter, for seasonal flowers and pound them as well or Leaves. So this is just a wonderful way to save money. To be creative and be happy what you do. And it's such a stress reliever twin, it gives you instant happiness. 10. Print Napkins & Tea Towels : So in this section, we're going to actually be pounding on a napkin. So I'm just going to open up our napkin here and I'm just going to fresh from the store. So I know this is the part where I want to pound my flowers because that's how it will be sitting on the plate. It's going to open it up and I know which which rectangle pipe will be folded down to the front part wave will be shown on the plate. So I've just marked pet here. I know which one it is. And I'm just going to place my flowers. I can mixed Pansies. And I'm using actually here for first-time me using hydrangea, wanted to see how hydrangea would look. So hydrangeas go right into Fall. So if you're looking to do this in fall, they can also use hydrangeas at time. Two other flowers to bleep me that I haven't even tried it. I know I voted on weight. So the ISO in a little bit of a pattern here as you can see. I'm just excuse the shape. My camera here. It's right above me and it's attached to the table. So it's it makes shakes with the tail as I hammer. So let's see what we come up with them. This step can have this style. You can actually or rather this technique and can transfer this technique onto your Tea Towels as well. So Napkins, here we go, We're coming back everything, so we're getting this beautiful color, honest, natural, dynamic go. I love that prevalent in these small ones. Never disappointed. And I really like how the hydrangea came up to. Maybe I should have done a little bit more Pounding, but I am still very happy with it. This is how it looks. And this is how it looks when you place it onto our playing in the folded neatly on it down. This is like a beautiful summer setting that you can do for. You can take this technique to Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter with whatever flowers there that are available to you. Come up with this beautiful design, this beautiful pattern and all natural, naturally dad, and it makes you happy, right? Pounding is such a stress reliever. And you end up with this beautiful Home Decor. Guests. We love your Napkins and Tea Towels and the way it kinda gets into the grain of the fabric and just becomes been Vibrant. Hope you all try this too. 11. Gallery Style Birthday Card: So in this video, in this class actually are going to be doing a couple of Birthday Cards. And here's our first one is called a gallery Style Birthday Card. And as you see here, I've just folded over my card stock. And if you don't have a card stock, you can use any other heavier paper if you have around in your home. And I chose to use watercolor paper to pound my flowers on. The reason being it's a lot more heavier than the card stock. And it's also a little bit of a texture as well, which I'll show me in a moment. And I just wanted it to fit over my card stock and give it a gallery feel. If I pound on my flowers onto this paper and put it onto my card, stock election look like a Frame painting hanging a gallery by famous artists. You'll be the famous artists because you'll be Pounding you flowers onto it. For this one, I've just taken a watercolour paper in empty is going to actually tape it down with my masking tape. This is just so that it doesn't move while I pound. I'm going to go down if my first petal here and that's my white pens, either the peripheral designs in the middle. What do you walk into? Work it into a sort of a pattern here I have a lot of flowers this time. For this particular ones, I was wanted to fill it up as much as I possibly could and get as much pounding down into it. And have a lot of colorful varieties. So it would look like it looked like a painting. That's what I'm actually going for him. He's going to arrange it here a little bit anyway with a white Pansies had mentioned earlier that sometimes white doesn't come out nicely. Well, I'll show you how in this class, in this piece actually, how the white turn a little bit yellowish, which I kinda liked and I didn't, it didn't disappoint me this particular white Pansies, the one the middle of the Purple design. How do we can read everything, something attached to the table and that's why you're experiencing this. Alport. Apologize for that. But if you look at my hammering, write down all getting wet, especially the ones at the top of the three petals see of the side to the, to hear the site. And some surprises me how these, It's so much liquid in them when you pound them, don't and you have to go really hard and pound to get a column. Here. We aren't just going to live this and see how wet it is. Because all it Pounded all that extra liquid that came off from within the petals. Here me go. Look at that. And the white ones see it leaves that sort of a yellowy feel. The cortisol, why it is has a yellowy maybe light is not green but light yellow color to it. I like it. I'm glad I place it in the center because kinda, kinda like the main focus. This is how it looks. For some of them. I've actually left the Petals on and I didn't remove them. Now show you that in a moment. So here I'm just going to take my double sided adhesive tape here. Want that center roll. Just going to go around the four corners. And you can even double-sided tape or any other team that you have. Anything is true as well. Eyeball it to the center. This way, Gibbs, the Card and gallery feel like card is still a little bit wet. Take place on the strike panel. This how it looks. See these petals here. I didn't remove them, I just let it sit there. Was stuck. So nice to end. It looks so pretty so. It's a quick tip here. If you want to leave some of the petals in your work, you don't need to pull them out. Keep them there because it does look very I truly think that people are actually going to love to receive a card where all the flowers and his pounded by hand. And it's being memorable and Delightful to receive something like this 12. Long Stemmed Farm Flowers: In this section, we're going to be creating long Stemmed Farm Flowers. And I use 100% Cotton Fabric in a more heavier we've so I've already pre-measured my frame and I've already penciled in an outline. It I'll flower Pounding inspiration for this project is coming from Farm Flowers. I wanted to create green stems from my flowers. So I mixed two colors together, green, light green and dark green paint together. You can use either color or mix it. So just by taking my brush, I'm painting long green stems across my fabric. So you end up with something that looks like this. So you can go right across you fabric and make these long Stemmed. They don't have to be really straight lines. They can be whichever lines you prefer, you can have them bending over or have them little bit straight a little bit off to this side. You want to have given natural log. So this is what I've done so far, and now I'm just putting in some leaves. And basically I'm just loaded some on my paintbrush. I'm just pulling it it loads it into right into actually the stems. So you don't have to be a brilliant painted in doing this. You can just make your, even when create your own Leaves and just keep them as simple lines. I'm just doing it. I'm doubling it up as Leaves. But if you're a great painter and you have some ideas of how you wanted to Leaves, go ahead and do that. You can keep it as simple as you want. Filled up my entire fabric. Wherever I wanted, Leaves, fill them up with Leaves and His word, god. For this one, I want to try out carnations, and then I have some light purples and a little bit gives reddish, reddish orange ones in the pink ones mixed and I have dark purple tube in a dark pink one. So I'm just going to mix them up with my Pansies and see what sort of effect I get with carnations. Because they stick at the bottom. I just peeled pill them apart, made them into small pieces so that I can I could work with them much more easier way. I just took the pills, take them apart and I just said, tasted in a floral pattern. We can round circle. So they're not attached at all. Knows. You can use whichever follows you want and you can create it exactly like this. Or the different way that you prefer. This is how it looks when I've finished, when I finished Pounding. As a ligand is still very light. The formula, and I love that you like the Purple it. But I wanted to have a little bit more depth to them. I could've just used used all carnation on this one. I thought we just mix them up a little bit with them with Pansies. I've pounded some Pansies here to show you how it looks. And I've yet to peel back the, the petals. But this just, so you have an idea what I did. And I'm going to show you right now the finished product. And this is how it looks, is our finished frame of long Stemmed Farm Flowers. And I went back like Pounded few more other colors into it to give it a for loop. This piece is a great way to capture your Summer, capture particular season. Capture a travel destination where you pick flowers and you hammered it onto your fabric to bring back home. And this way, it'll become a great piece to display by your bedside table in your office, in your home office, or in the bedrooms of your children. And there's also a great piece to put on the mantle. It's a perfect piece to put on a wall or on a table where you're serving afternoon tea or high Tea. It's a great accompaniment to your Home Decor. 13. Starbucks Birthday Bouquet Card: So this is going to be the starting of our starbucks Birthday Bouquet Card. And we're going to use our coffees Leaves from our starbucks to create a flower pot. If you don't have a Coffee sleeve, No worries, use any other small piece of cardboard. So open up your Coffee, see a wide-open. So it should look something like this. You'll be able to see all the groups at the cardboard. Turn it over and draw the line right across the girl's eyes and two lines on the opposite sides of the cheek going down. So your drawing will look like a flower pot. Then take your scissors and cut up your flower pot. And this is the way she looked the groove side up. Take a double-sided tape or your glue and glue, you flower pot down onto your card stock. So for this part, we need to gather some nice beautiful, Vibrant Coloured petals. And we are going to be pounding them onto our flower pots so that it looks like we have a Bouquet in a flower pot. So here I've already Pounded some of my geraniums onto the flower pot. So it feel it looks like it's a Bouquet. I've used two colors of the geraniums. I've used the orange one and the purple one, but I still see those whitespaces just above the flower pot. So I want to put maybe some extra flowers on, maybe flowers that are more defined so I can see the shapes. So I'm going to go with my tried and tested my small Pansies, the yellow and purple ones here. So I'm just place them onto the spaces where I think I wanted some, some, some definition and I wanted the shape of the thought pills who really show up. This is how they look. I find this pretty so beautiful because the way the lines have just just define themselves and the petals, I actually don't have proper, they look blue. So that's blue and yellow and didn't have those. The center part of it looks beautiful. So anything that will make it look like a Bouquet, any flowers. So any flower petals, that's what you need to use. So you will give you some natural definition. On your flower pot. You can create just about any message on this card. You can by thinking of you and you can do a happy Mother's Day card. In all I used was a little bit of Plain washi tape to write it on, right. My message on. Another one I tried was these maybe go Leaves, the stems. So I just took to the two stems and put some plastic on top, just like the way we do regular Pounding. This is how our Leaves looked after we pounded it, and then when we remove the plastic cover, this is the impression it left. A quick tip. You can always do a combination of Leaves and florals together. Wanted to make a proper stationary set for our birthday card. And I thought, okay, let's pound on our envelope and see how that looks. If you have Plain simple envelope, they take a hold of that, insert a couple of paper towels folded in half, inserted inside the envelope. Turn it over the she looked like. Then choose a flowers you want and preferably have those flowers match the card inside. And then just pound on your, onto your flowers. In this way, the impression, just stay in the front of the envelope and you won't see to the back of the Cards. So a backup the envelope because in-between you have a paper towel. This is how you card. We look very pretty addressed to the person with the pounded flowers next to it. I hope you enjoy making this card because I think it'll be a cardinal. Make anyone stay where they to mom, your grandparents, your friends, your sister, your daughter. At the you could definitely put a smile on someone's face. 14. Hammering Matted Purple Pansies: This portion of the class, we're going to be using a Matted frame. So I've taken them on my frame apart and I've taken the mat out here. The mat has that groove, it's slanting group. And what I would do with that, if you're using something like this, it flip it aside, flip, flip it on the other side. Take your pencil to trace the inner lines of the mat. If you're using a frame that has a mat on it like this, this is what you want to do, is draw the line inside the mat, not outside. So then when you're, when you're actually putting a frame together after you Pounded your flowers. Flowers are going to be a Pounded inside the square and your mat will be on the outside a little look like a gallery framework. I found this really beautiful white frame. And I thought, I'm just going to make it all Purple, make all the flowers purple. Then the white matting on the frame and the framework itself. We'll just, because who calls up the purple flowers will just pop out. So that's my experiment for this one. I'm just going to be using all Purple Pansies. And I'm just going to hammer them all. And it will see what the result is. This is how everything is coming along. So far. I've three large Purple Pansies and all the rest of them, the rest of the space, I'm filling them up with the smaller Pansies. This is how my final setup looks like. If for some of the petals, I've actually put them below the line as you just saw. So you don't need to have it all inside the line. You can have them coming out of the line is all going out of the line so that it looks very natural and it look like as if it was just placed there purposing or just throw on on the frame. These large Purple Pansies actually took me a long time to bruise. And I really don't know why. I'm thinking maybe the petals for more mature. I think. I don't know. I'm not a botanist. But he just felt like that you might come across a few flowers that are like that and some of petals will be just like so easy to do. But anyways, this is how everything looks down. If I was having second thoughts, I was thinking I would just not even remove the petals. I will just leave it as it is. So you can do that as well. I'm definitely going to, going to go ahead and try that for one of my other frames that I have, I won't remove the flowers, I'll just leave it as it is and have it all dried up against the glass case. The frame. I think there will look very pretty. But here I've pulled out all of the, most, all of the petals here and this is how it looks. I think I like that. The fact that everything is Purple and you wish you can do the same, you can do it on pinks and purples or yellow flowers or all orange flowers maybe for Fall. I'm just going to pick away at some of the last ones, few last ones here. And then together, we'll frame this and map this properly 15. Framing Matted Purple Pansies: So this is our final piece, and we're done taking out all the dried Petals. Enamel is going to put my mat and white on top. Then you can see how, how it changes the whole look of the flower petals. And what we need to do for this one is we need to actually turn this over. We need to just see how much excess fabric we have on all the four signs. They'll just take a Scissors and we'll just snip and all the sides. So I suggest don't see bidding large portions. Snip each side in increments so that you don't go so deep where the opening of the matters. So then if you were to do that, you wouldn't be able to have the Fabric stay flush against the matting. So just keep checking that you don't go into the empty space of the mat and then you'll just that you fabric is within the outer limits of the opening of the rectangle of the mat. So I'm just going to do all the sides here a little bit and keep turning it over to check. And if you see any pencil marks at this point, you can erase them. Now I just want to put my mat, my matching actually on top of my fabric to see if I need to do anything extra or if anything is missing that I can do now. So I was thinking this part here was looking empty, that I should maybe Pounding other flower or maybe just pound a half of it just so that it comes out from the side and into the center a little bit. If you feel like at some point when you were doing this project that you feel like something's missing or there's a white blank space. Go back and in pound sum of Floral, some flowers into it. And I'm just Pounding actually half of the pedal, not all of it was only half of it will be exposed to us. See the difference? You just put your mat right there. You can adjust it to how much you want it to be seen. I think I like it like this. I'm just going to keep it as it is. But I'm glad I did that. And then just like the rest of the frames that we worked on previously, you just want to use your masking tape and taped down all the four sides and continue to cut the edges as you go by. And you can use the mapping as a guide. So you know how far you've reached your cutting. So you don't make deep cuts. Just a quick tip here when you're placing your masking tape on your fabric, just give a little bit of pull towards yourself. When you tape it down. Just to stretch their fabric out a little bit. You in wouldn't way like just pulling it slightly towards yourself onto the Masking Tape just so that everything else in the middle and older sides gets treated out. This is how our piece looks all Matted and came down and put the glass back onto the frame. And I'm placing the work in the middle. And I'll final cover of the frame work here at the backing goes down. This is the piece that we have. Imagine this piece on a buffet table at a wedding, or we used all on your patio. So you can do so much with the flower pounding and just create your own Art Decor. It's actually a great idea. If you have all Frames laying around in your home, you can actually paint the Frames and even Paint it to match though your Pounded file is a great way to decorate your home. 16. Floral Bookmarks: Bookmarks, I loved the world over buy book readers. Nothing is more exciting and FUN. Then an inspiring bookmark to insert in your book. Here. As you can see, I've just finished pounding on this Bookmark and I've used some of my favorite flowers. I've used my different colors of geranium. So I used to have a pink ones and one orange, and I used one pansy on the side as well. Now, you can make your bookmark as exciting and adventurous as you want by using the most prettiest unusual flowers that you can find from wherever you are in your part of the world. And you'll be pleasantly surprised by the amazing color dyes that gets transferred by these flowers. You Bookmark should be as beautiful and interesting as the stories you read. So here, I've just removed all of my hammered flowers from my Bookmark. Going to double hope Punch my whole here. I'm just going to make it a little bit larger so I can just put my ribbon through it. All my string. Oh, my Bakers Twine, whichever one that you using. So I'm just going to use my purple ribbon here. I'm just going to cut it through. I'm going to fall it in half a little bit here and take the half part from the middle, twisty a little bit and put to the whole just open up the other end. Would these to loose ends right through it and pull. I didn't take the ends of your ribbon and they just wanted to fold it. And doing angle cut, this cut is called the duck tail cut that you do at the end of your Ribbons just to keep it a nice slope. So next, I wanted to do a different looking bookmark. So I just took a single watercolour paper and glue down a page from an old book. I wanted it to have a different shape and not to have the usual bookmark shape. So what I did was I loaded it with different looking flower petals in, experimented with a field. So finally I got something like that. Then what I did was I painted my Gift Tag with a couple of petals and attached it to the larger bookmark with a ribbon. I hope you enjoy making these Bookmarks and I would like to wish you happy hammering and pleasant readings with these Bookmarks. 17. Large Floral & Botanical Print: This last, final Floral, Botanical Print, I thought to myself, I better go big. Go home. Went and got a large frame, measured my fabric and frame up the center with Masking Tape instead of using a pencil like we've done before. So for this last large piece, all the flowers I had a hand and combine a variety of leaves to this piece of fabric. As you can see him. So I started off here with geraniums and I want to place them in a row. And then I use these very small intricate Flower Petals. There are called Collin County. And actually I came across them maybe for the first time. And they look very pretty and very educated. They come in like purples and pinks on one part and fill up my as all the blank spaces I filled out minus, we'll just finish up using all my beautiful Pansies and fill them in, into all these corners and they'll spaces and get as much color as I possibly could into this fabric. And I wanted you to botanicals. And I thought to myself, instead of a Pounding my botanicals, I'm just going to take my leaves and I'm just going to paint turn them over and paint the vein side. So then I just saw if you're doing the same thing like me, just get it gets skipped some colored paint, some greens, some light dark green to light greens, and just load your paint into all the crevasses and all the corners of your leaves? Just over here. And they want I did, but you just turn it upside down. This is something we had done in school. I know most of us have done this because I didn't plan this out and I didn't have some sort of a rolling utensil or or, or rolling pin to roll over my Leaves. I just go to I just grab one of a hat on my desk and I just got this empty tin and just press down onto the leaves. I hoped I'd have my fingers crossed that it would come out nicely. So if you already do this, use some sort of a rolling pin or something or small bottle that you can just roll. Audio Leaves are Book is pressing down. So I also want to just sort of not just have one carve-out, one club Gouin. I want to just mix it up with light green and dark green paints and mix those two paints together. And I love more. As you see here. I'm just, I took the empty bottle, bottle and I just wrote it on top of the leaves. So we can do it a few times and just so that you can give some good, some sort of a leaf Print. And it came up very nicely. So this is what I've got so far. Some hydrangea leaves, I used up, some marigold Leaves. I use some level the leaves as well. And I just loaded them all up and I kinda figured out how I wanted to do. We're gonna use the paint and just went for it. I just went all over the spaces. And this is what I came up with. And I'm quite happy with this because I really do want to produce something really large like this and have all my petals here. This is for me, this project was more like on to other projects that I'm planning on doing. A great way to decorate your home. And I know that I'll be doing this more often and for every season. And just look at the vibrancy of this fabric, the designs on it like this. It will look very pretty in your living room, in your home office or anywhere you want to decorate. A gorgeous piece that it's a piece that you can create yourself and be very proud of. And definitely will give you a smile at the end of the day for sure. 18. Pounding on Clothing?: This is just a FUN piece. I'm just inserting at the end here. I was wanting to see how it would feel to pound some flowers onto Clothing because we've done it on hundred percent Cotton Fabric. But I thought let's try and do it on our t-shirt or a cotton shirt. So this is just a FUN experiment and I'll let you decide if you like it or not. I used, took my cotton shirt here and you can all shirt. It's totally worn out. But what I did was I thought I'll just take some files in pounding on the pocket section of my shirt. So I tucked, enfolded some people Towels and it took to it inside the pocket. And then I chose some flowers that I had. I'm like hydrangea. And I'll put my hydrangeas in a pattern here. And then I use some other flowers and then I just pounded it like crazy. And I'll show you the result in just a moment is, and here it is. And here's how it looked. Now remember you can use any flowers that you want. I have actually Pounded most glue, all of all of my potted flowers. So this is how it looks close up. So it's nice and vibrant. And I, one thing I realized I should have pounded it a lot more harder than I was actually doing. And why did was I felt okay now that I've had this design, let me just go put it into the wash and then I put it to my first cycle, and then I put it through the dryer as well. So this is my result right here. So this is the first wash and dry. And it can still see the sustains, but a lot of it have have gone, but you can still see, I think those yellow stains right here. And the blue from I think it was from the Pansies. So anyways, just be aware that these flower dyes are permanent. He had washable. But from what I've seen, it is washable but it does leave some stains. So I did another experiment. I did, I took my t-shirt and I made a design here with some Pansies and geraniums and some Ferns actually was, it wasn't Ferns, it was some other Leaves. So I took my t-shirt and I do the first cycle of my wash and I put it into their drawing and I took it out. And this was my results from my first washing. So this is my first wash and you can still see the steam. The flower colors are gone, but the deeper in a stains are still there. I will suggest if you are going to be doing this, always pound on to really all calling to see if you like it. I personally not true if I wanted to do this in room my good Clothing. So what I did was I did this a second time. I took the same shirt, went through the washing machine again and drier. And this was, this was the result and it didn't make any much of a difference. So I might go back to Pounding again if I want, maybe later you want to give it a shot again. But for now, I don't think I want to palmar my clothes to get all those things unless unless I figured I might as well just when I take my really all white t-shirt again, just Pauli's much flowers as I possibly Claire can all over my t-shirt. And then maybe after I've washed it might look like I titled t-shirt or something like that. So I hope this experiment helps you to see the result of it after your Pounded work is washed. So I hope it answers some of your questions, but if you love what you see, please do pound on your clothes. Just be aware that they do leave some stains 19. Our Class Project: For your Class Project, there are over 300,000 flowering plants in the whole world with more discoveries made by botanists continuously around the world. So be assured. You never, ever run out of flowers, botanicals to pound for your Class Project. Your Class Project is versatile in front, which means you can create any one of the projects you've seen Class. Choose a print that you like in this class and create it using flowers and leaves available to you in your country. If you love creating hammered prints for your home or office, then do so for your class project. And to share with the class as to how you powdered work. It looks inside a frame. If you feel like you want to keep your Class project light, then create a fund bookmark. The whole idea of creating this Class Project is for you to have FUN finding flowers and botanicals and pounding them into Creative Projects. And don't forget to upload your project to Skillshare, to share your project with me and the rest of the class. It's always so nice to share and see each other's projects. I'm so excited to see your hammered flowers on your projects. Remember, finishing up your Class and uploading your projects. You'll receive a Class Certificate for watching and participating in all the lessons today. Here at Skillshare, rewards, just keep on coming to you in badges, which you can earn by submitting a project, leaving this Class, giving feedback. And I look forward to be seeing all your wonderful Class Projects and feedbacks for this class. Thank you for spending your precious time with me today. I appreciate it. And I look forward to be seeing all your wonderful Class Projects and feedbacks for this class. Until then, I wish you happy Pounding