Need some fun flowers to pick up your day and make you smile? Know someone else who could use a few? These paper flowers are cut with the Fun Flowers Big XL Die for the Big Shot.
This is another of those "Just Get it DONE!" projects. I always want everything to be "perfect." I'm learning that it's OK to not be "perfect." One of the reasons I haven't done a bouquet of these flowers is my desire to match colors, get it right, etc. We've had a lot of rain lately. After a summer with barely any, we're grateful, but my yard is all turned around. It's February, the temperature last night was at least 34 degrees, yet my thirsty plants are blooming many colors simply because God has watered them. My water bill last summer will attest to the fact that I watered them, but now they are blooming and not one of them is "perfect!" So I decided to just do it and not try.
I cut a 5" strip of every kind of paper in the Just Eat Cake Designer Series Paper package. (2 of each sheet comes in each package, I just used one of each.) I then cut 5" strips of every color of card stock that is designed to go with that DSP collection, Poppy Parade, So Saffron, Early Expresso (yes, there is brown in my yard also!), Baja Breeze, Peach Parfait, Blushing Bride and Wild Wasabi. I ran all of these through the BIg Shot with the Fun Flower Die in 2 runs. I LOVE the fact that the Big Shot will cut multiple pieces of paper at a time when no scoring is involved.
Then I separated them into stacks by shape and took a deep breath and started putting them together! I punched a hole in the centers (I just eyeballed it!) with the Paper-Piercing Tool and the Mat underneath! ( I don't want my glass table scratched up!) and pushed them down onto a wooden skewer like you would use on the grill for shish-kabobs. I used a Glue Dot to put the smallest circle on the top of the skewer. On a few of these, I tried using a retired button also.It gives it a little different look.
I put some marbles in a vase and added some silk greenery that was lying around the house. It adds the garden green as well as "hides" the wooden sticks. (Let the breath out.......) It may not be "perfect," but it's done, it's cute and it makes me smile so it's fulfilled it's purpose. I hope it makes you smile also! Make a few, you don't have to put them all in one vase. Divide them up in groups of 3 or 5 and give them to teacher's, secret sisters, put some on your desk...... spray a little perfume or drops of your favorite "smelly" oil and they'll even smell good!
Here's a close up of just one:
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