I fully intended to make gift tags yesterday afternoon - but it was so hot and I still felt very flu-ey, so I plopped myself down in the lapa with a stack of magazines and a tall icy lemonade.
One of the magazines had some lovely ideas for using up paper scraps. In one of the designs they use tiny punched flowers and leaves to make a Paper Flower Christmas Wreath on a card - very pretty. I am down to my final heap of scraps - but I figured I would have to make about forty cards if I used such a small design, and I wanted a quick "final" make.
I decided to "upsize" the idea!
I drew around the lid of a big cake tin onto a piece of sturdy cardboard (a cereal box will work quite nicely), and then around the lid of a smaller cake tin placed centrally inside the big circle to for the base of the Christmas Wreath. Cut out the ring and punch a single hole fairly close to the outside circle - make a loop using twisted paper ribbon.
I made as many flowers as I could using the same technique as for the Poinsettia decoration HERE. I also made as many shapes and sizes of leaves as I could with whatever bits of green paper and board I had left. I then started by glueing the flowers to the board as closely as possible without squashing them too much. I then started filling the spaces with leaves and small bows made from paper ribbon. I then added a bit of bling in the form of some shiny red beads and some pearl beads. I added big paper ribbon as the final touch to my Paper Flower Christmas Wreath.
One of the magazines had some lovely ideas for using up paper scraps. In one of the designs they use tiny punched flowers and leaves to make a Paper Flower Christmas Wreath on a card - very pretty. I am down to my final heap of scraps - but I figured I would have to make about forty cards if I used such a small design, and I wanted a quick "final" make.
I decided to "upsize" the idea!
I made as many flowers as I could using the same technique as for the Poinsettia decoration HERE. I also made as many shapes and sizes of leaves as I could with whatever bits of green paper and board I had left. I then started by glueing the flowers to the board as closely as possible without squashing them too much. I then started filling the spaces with leaves and small bows made from paper ribbon. I then added a bit of bling in the form of some shiny red beads and some pearl beads. I added big paper ribbon as the final touch to my Paper Flower Christmas Wreath.
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