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I wanted to, as part of the Tropical Beach House build last year, make a passionflower vine, but the build was so complex I didn't leave myself much time to craft incidentals.

Since I am waiting for the last of the Mobile Studio items to arrive in the mail, I played with the passionflower, to satisfy my curiosity.

A copyright free botanical print, for reference...

My first, unsatisfactory, attempts...

I like the frilly corona in the middle flower, it's the most accurate, but it was a fiddly task to cut it by hand, and I need to produce multiple flowers for a vine.  For ease of manufacturing, so to speak, I decided to use only shapes which I could punch.  I may hand cut a corona for a single specimen flower, but I don't have patience to hand cut dozens of them at a time.  I did end up cutting petals off two of the punched shapes, but that is fast and easy.  Snip, snip.

This is where I ended up...

The little circles are the most important bits.  When I stacked two of the same flower shape atop each other I got a large round shape.  Using the little circles as spacers between them offset them enough to solve that problem.

The corona is too thick in my finished bloom, and the ovary too large, but I think I've replicated the feel of the flower well enough.  I have five petals, five sepals, a corona, five anthers, the ovary, and three stigmas.  I'm pleased with it, and it will be easy enough to predictably reproduce.  I will keep my eyes open for a punch that will work better for the corona every time I'm in a craft store, though.  I will most likely find one immediately after my vine is complete.  Smaller seed beads the right color would be useful as well.

Now I have to figure out buds, fruits, and leaves.