Adding Patterns and Shapes to Your Paper Flowers 

Often I will get asked, how do you design your files? The long answer to this is I use an open-source program called Inkscape.

Let’s take a look at how to get a totally plain petal to dress up into a two-layered pattern.

Instructions

The first step is to bring the images into Design Space. Navigate to the Upload button on the left side of the Canvas in your Design Panel.

Next, decide on your pattern. You can either bring in an existing pattern such as my mermaid or polka dot pattern freebies or you can create a pattern from the basic shapes panel.

Next, group the pattern line by using the group button at the top right and start to duplicate that again as well as offsetting your lines a little bit.

Once you have a healthy pattern created, it’s time to set it up to be cut out of our petals. In order to slice this pattern out from our petal, you need to Weld all these circles together.