Floral inspiration- 44 ideas for Mother’s Day and our March Challenge

Today I’ve got lots of inspiration for our March challenge- flowers. The challenge topic (flowers) just needs to be a starting point for your inspiration so you could do a creative project made from flowers, using flowers, featuring flowers, inspired by flowers….anything you think is linked to flowers.

The Creative Loops challenge is for all types of creatives and is truly anything goes- art, mixed media, sewing, knitting, quilting, card making, papercraft, crossstitch, photography, altered art, creative writing, graphic design, floral design……if it is creative and inspired by the challenge theme you can join in. The idea is to connect and inspire creatives. We are a local group that meet weekly but anyone is welcome to join the challenge and link up their project.

Feel free to add any ideas and to chat about inspirations in the comments.

Here is an inspiration board of ideas you could use with the links listed below. Links with tutorials or patterns are shown with a *. Links to items which you could buy are shown with **

Please add your finished projects at the bottom of this post.

By members of Creative Loops

1. Carrie Trigg (cut ’n’ sew) teaches sewing and she taught the Creative Loops group to make this floral organiser.

2,3,4 Carrie also makes beautiful clothing from retro, vintage fabrics. These makes from floral prints are great inspiration…..or you could just buy one from her Etsy shop CarrieJTrigg and make something else for the challenge 😉

5. My colouring calendars feature a couple of floral images **
6. One of my hand painted bags with a floral henna style motif I designed **
7. This was made by Annette for the challenge last month but as well as featuring a heart it also has some beautiful flowers. She drew using a fine black pen and then coloured with watercolour pencils.
8. My Lord of the Rings inspired woodland scene **
9. A colourful floral card from Kristina
10. Beautiful artwork by Jocelyn Leigh on display at a local tea room

Inspiration from others

11. Nail polish earrings** by SenJewelry with video tutorial*
12. Felt rose mobile tutorial by tiffercolabear
13. A list of 16 free flower knitting patterns at in the loop knitting*
14. Flower vase card tutorial at notableNEST*
15. Chocolate flowers….who would not love getting these!! Photo tutorial at all day boutique*
16. Using forced perspective to photograph flower girls. Love this technique. It has taken me half an hour to track down the photographer- Tatiana Mikhina
17. Blooming monogram with silk flowers tutorial at Urbanic Paper blog*
18. I believe the original tutorial for this picture is at icreativeideas.com*
19. How about making a floral Easter style bonnet like this one shown in CountryLivimg.com
20. Tutorial for felt hydrangea cushion*
21. A 3D card I made for Mother’s Day featuring lots flowers
22. Beautiful textures in floral art by Paula Nizamas
23. ♫ I’ve got one hand in my pocket and the other one is giving the peace sign ♫ Hand embroidery by Mariana on Flickr
24. Tutorial for needle felted flowers at craft me happy
25. 10 free crotchet flower patterns collated at Chaleur Life
26. In series 1 of the Great British Sewing Bee Stuart Hillard added tulip pockets to his skirt in a refashion project. Great idea executed in double quick time!! He brought out a book called Sew Fabulous but I’m not sure if it features this project.
27. Delicate cut paper flower by Maude White at Brave Bird Paper Art
28. Loom knitting flowers- I’m not sure where the photo originates from (please contact me if you know). Video tutorial on loom knitting flowers here.
29. Why not try a tulip style dress or skirt. Free tutorial for this tulip dress at The Felted Fox
30. Several patterns for this hippo available using African flower hexagons
31. Beautiful altered shadow box scrapbook layout at The Dusty Attic Blog
32. Caught in crystal technique with flower stamp
33. Painting watercolour hydrangea- step by step tutorial*
34. Mixed media art by Toni Burt
35. Altered art shabby chic clock attributed to Asuka Miyamoto. Definitely uses her chipboard layout.
36. Alcohol ink painting by Teri Jones
37. accredited to A Fairy’s Dream at afairysdreamonline.com but blog appears to be inactive
38. zentangle meets embroidery by hoooooplaart on tumblr
39. Altered frame using products by ArtC (Momenta) at CHA 2016 and shown on Create and Craft TV
40. Vase book folding pattern and tutorial* for sale on Etsy by Foldilocks**
41. Vase and flower book folding at Bev’s Book Folding Blog with link to YouTube tutorial on making the flowers*
42. Wet felting by Renata on Flickr
43. Screen printed t-shirt with dimensional flowers added was available at Zara
44. Recycled denim bag by Alla Larkin. She has a shop on Etsy and a blog

Hopefully that provided enough ideas to inspire you. Now all you need to do is

1. Get inspired
2. Create (original and new creations only, please respect copyright)
3. Take photos of your creation
4. Link up
5. Check out the other linked projects, comment on them etc. We want to build a community.

If you have a blog please write about your inspiration, how it links to this challenge and include a link to this post. Add a photo of your project with your name and a short description below. If you do not have a blog post you can upload and share your photo or email me a copy of the photo and details. If you have any problems linking up there is a how to video and tutorial here.