Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Dreaming of flowers

I've  got  a  cold or whatever  the  nastiness  that's  going  around  is called.  I   hate zinc  even  if  it  helps.  I   have   only  a  thimble  full of ambition.  So  what  to do?  Curl up  with  a  cup of hot  tea and  pin things, of  course.  Mostly  I've  made  flowers  that  look  good  to me;  labeled  in my mind as roses, daisy  type, spiky  type, carnations, and  leaves.  I   made  a pinterest  board  of  actual  flowers  I  would  like  to  make  with  paper.  My  favorites  are orchids   (they  look  so  simple  and  the  real  ones  cost so  much), calla lilies   (I  love  them  they  are  easy  and  the  exotic  ones are pricy) and peonies  cause  they  are gorgeous.    I can't  wait   to  get  myself  back  together  and  cut some  out.  Mine are sneeze  and allergy free by the  way.   If you  have  a moment   stop by  and  visit  my board  so  you  to  can dream  of  flowers.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Boutineire inspiration

I  want  to  try  my  hand  at making  some  boutineires.  I  made some   yellow  roses  to  use in the  project but  how  to  transform  a single  flower  into  a  bout?  I  think  they're  important  cause  they're  the  only  flowers  the  poor  dude gets.  His love  gets  an arm load  of beautiful  flowers so  his  simple  boutineire  needs to  be  special.

I  love  these  from  The  Knot.  I  think  my  yellow  roses  would  work  as nicely  as the  red ones.  I  think  they're  simple  and  elegant  and  the  natural  flowers  are lovely  but  mine  would  last  a long  time.


I  also  love  these  tiny  white roses.  My  flowers  are bigger  but I  might  try  to  make  some  smaller  ones. This  is  a  slide show  darn if I  could  pick  out  just  the  one  but  the  others  are  cool  maybe  a bit  of  a  challenge  to  make  in paper.



I love  these  from  The  Knot  even  though  they  have  nothing  to  do  with  roses.
I just  love  calla lilies.

Now  I  want  to  use  natural  flowers  as inspiration  but  I  just  couldn't  resist  having  a  peek  at  Etsy  to  see  what  other  crafters  have  dreamed  up.  I  learned  I  don't  know  how  to  share  photos  or links  from  etsy  or pinterest  which  makes  me  sad  cause  there's  some  cool  stuff  that  deserves  a  share.