Rotation Flowers


I love flowers, is there anyone who doesn’t? They come in such a abundance and variety of shapes and sizes. I never cease to be amazed at their simplicity and yet they can be so complex in design. I have a large number of flowers in my cutting file collection already, but I am always looking for more. Apparently, one can never have too many flower designs. Today, I have created a video tutorial that will guide you through the process of using the Rotation feature found in the Transformation window. Using my method you can create an infinite number of flowers for your cutting file “garden”.

Before I discovered this method, I found it hard to make my petals evenly spaced. No matter how hard I tried, the petals were always a little bit off. Being the perfectionist that I am, this frustrated me. With the rotation method the petals are always exactly where they are supposed to be.

Making Rotation Flowers does take a bit of math. You need to divide a circle, which is 360 degrees, by the number of petals you desire. For those of you who don’t want to work that hard 🙂  I have created a chart that will help you make flowers with up to 12 petals. If you want more petals, you are on your own; just remember to divide 360 by whatever number of petals you want. Once you know the spacing, you use the Rotation function to rotate the flowers exactly the right amount.

It is so much easier to show how to do this so be sure to watch the video below. I think you will find that, just like me, you will want to create different petal variations just to see what kind of flower results.

Happy Tuesday and Have Fun!

Chris

rotation-flowers

Make flowers with the petals perfectly spaced using the Rotation feature found in the Transformation window. In this tutorial you will learn how to determine the correct spacing for the petals to make flowers with 5 to 12 petals or more. The lesson will also show how to create an infinite variety of petals to make beautiful flowers for any project.

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24 thoughts on “Rotation Flowers

  • Christine Post author

    Elvira, try again. It seems to be working on our end. Perhaps your Internet is a bit slow this morning. Just give it a bit of time to load the video- also try the Low-Res video since it is a smaller file.

  • Christine Post author

    Be patient while it is loading. It seems that our service provider might be doing some maintenance that is slowing things down. It should improve soon.

  • Paula Massey

    OMGoodness, another awesome video showing how versatile the PI software is. Am off to play to see how many different shapes i can make.

    Thanks Christine for another winning video tutorial:-)

  • Debbie Stinchcombe

    the video is not working for me either have waited 10 mins for it to come up but nothing

  • Victoria Kee

    It stops at the words “Like the ones shown here”. I have waited and nothing happens. Looks like it would be a nice video too. Will try again later.

  • Christine Post author

    If you have problems viewing the video please email webadmin@pazzles.com. The problem seems to be sporadic so it would help to hear from those who can’t get the video to load properly. Thanks!

  • Victoria Kee

    I waited awhile and it worked. Maybe there were too may of us at the same time.

    It was a great video…that once again….has the old cogs “rotating” with ideas! Thanks Christine!

  • Astrid

    Hi Afraid the video still doesn’t work – get the first 16 or 17 seconds and then stops

  • Amanda

    *’*’*’*’*If the video pauses or stops, pause the video and let your internet catch up. Then start the video again. You can also try a lower quality of the same video by selecting the “Low Res” or “ipod/iphone” link beneath “watch now”.*’*’*’*’*

    Because these videos are high quality it may take longer for your internet to download the information than if you were watching something on you tube for example. If your internet can’t download the information as quickly as you are watching the video then it will simply pause or stop the video. If you are still having trouble after trying all these suggestions please email us and we will help you.

  • Sofia Martinez

    Hola,soy de Colombia, yo comprè la màquina y estado jugando con ella, estoy felìz, me gustarìa saber como obtener la membresia para poder ver los videos pues casi todos la exigen y no se si la tengo o no.

    Gracias

  • Christine Post author

    ¡Bienvenidos! Usted puede encontrar más información acerca de ser miembro de la Sala de Arte visitando http://www.pazzles.com. Se puede ver un breve vídeo sobre la Craft Room y aprender cómo registrarse para ser miembro.

  • Phyllis Weaver

    This is great,more on this for the retreat. Maybe, snowflakes for a winter scene layout would be great.