For myself, I spent a long time trying to figure out how to make these beautiful folded flowers out of fabric scrap (and man, do I have a ton of scraps!) - I bought 3 books imported from Japan, and still had a difficult time figuring out how to make them. And then, I stumbled upon *Kurokami-Kanzashi and her wonderful tutorial set on making tsumami flowers.

And I became hooked on making them!

So, since summer is here for some of us, and it's an easy project with minimal materials necessary, I thought this would be a good way to kick off some news articles highlighting the tutorials that are to be found under Resources -> Tutorials -> Artisan Crafts and to get people making things.

In addition to her tsumami flower tutorials, there is a tutorial on making them with clay (which I never even thought of!) and a cute five petal clay flower cane, that would make wonderful accent beads!

*Kurokami-Kanzashi's Tsumami Kanzashi Tutorials



~HanaClayWorks's Tsumami Barrette Tutorial



~Glori305's Five Petal Flower Cane Tutorial



If you use these any of these tutorials, comment with a link to your deviation, and I'll put up a thumb of it here for everyone to see what you've made!

Tutorials are a wonderful resource here, especially for the Artisan Craft community. Take advantage of them - you never know what you'll learn from them!

_{Also, since this is my first news article, would you like to see these regularly? And do you have any comments or whatnot on it? Any feedback would be awesome!}