Showing posts with label crepe paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crepe paper. Show all posts

Friday, June 19, 2009

Diecut crepe paper flowers

We also diecut crepe paper yesterday. What I absolutely love is that you can cut at least 9 layers at the same time. Sure takes the "work" out of making flowers! Here I used a sizzix die....so I could have done at least 20 layers at once.




And here's one of the many cute flowers we made.



Well, I have a problem! I was trying to upload even more flowers to share and can you believe - I have used up my entire 1M of free space at Picasa! Wow! That's a whole lot of photos. So now, I have to pay $20 a year because I'm way too lazy to learn another system for my blog. They take 24 hours to process my payment (yeah, I know, I should have done this days ago when they started sending me alerts- but I didn't!) So tonight, just 2 pics and hopefully tomorrow night I can share even more. I found crepe paper flowers to be quite fun....but I'm not so sure how small you can go with them. Susan was best at making the tiny ones.

Today, we had our "Fun Friday" and it was just a hoot. Karen was making paper dolls with animal heads and putting hats on them and I laugh til I cried! Kathleen and I were working on metal clay diecuts. Susan and Marcia worked on nicho boxes. Shelly made gorgeous polymer clay beads and Kathy worked with diecuts. It was just a fun day and I spent all morning playing the "ornery one"!!! Tomorrow is "shopping saturday" and I think I need to get to bed early so I have a little energy left!

By the way - day 5 on Weight Watchers. We'll see if I can make it to day 7 or not! It's so much easier to diet when your husband is out of town!!!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Revival time

HA! As in reviving the past art of crepe paper flowers. And then vintage tissue paper garlands, and then honeycomb cards!!!

Today - it's crepe paper flowers. So, I have to tell you, my good friend Torrey Scott once did a layout that was beyond amazing. She went to the thrift store and bought up all kinds of silk flowers. Took them apart. Traced each petal in white paper, then took those paper petals, reassembled them into all white flowers and framed her page with them. It was amazing!

But I'm not quite that industrious!!! But I still like my results:



and I did mine the lazy way. I folded 9 layers of crepe paper together and cut them with Spellbinders rose die and paisley die. Yep, you can cut 9 layers in one pass - the paper is that thin!


 Just pull them apart..... 


and layer smaller sizes between the larger sizes - here I alternated with white and pink


wrap a wire around the bottom and cover that with florists tape - 2 of the absolute cheapest products ever!


and then just twist as you pull the petals apart and give shape to your flower



So pretty!!!








OK, your turn to give this a try!!!