Accordion Fold Flowers

I've seen these accordion-folded paper flowers in a lot of scrap layouts, and I wanted to see if I could create one digitally.  This tutorial is my result, and although it's not an exact match for the ones which look like they've been scanned, it's pretty close.  I may have to tinker with this one some more to see if I can make it look a bit more realistic.  Hope you'll find it useful!

This tut was written 9 September 2012 using PSP 9.

Create a Jewel 2

After posting the last tutorial for making a gem or jewel, I spent some time trying to figure out how to make it look more like a faceted cut gem.  This tutorial and the sample shown in the image above is the result.  It's still not 100% photo-realistic, but it's a bit closer than the last tutorial which is below this post.

This tutorial was written 20 February 2012 in PSP 9 but should work in other versions of the program.  There are some optional basic vector editing steps at the very end of this tutorial so this one may be of interest for that reason even if making a jewel is not.