A DIY Crepe Paper Flower Book giveaway - now translated into Estonian too!

It's Spring!!  - or rather it is kind of spring here so it is time for a giveaway. I will be giving away one book of my DIY book "How to Make 100 Paper Flowers" in English along with a crepe paper bundle to start you right away with making the flowers! You can enter you entries via rafflecopter below.

I come from  a crafty family..My sister who is an amazing florist as well as a creative crafter used my new book and created some of these creations below for a shop window. You can do amazing things. She was one of my constant source of support when I wrote the book and a sounding board.Many of the projects in the book were contributed by her!

She sent the following pictures she created using the book!!!

The paper tulips in the book were super sized to create a potted plant in lavender with some twigs to accessorize.

Large paper flowers inspired from the book!

Flore be papel flowers from the book

Have  you created flowers from the book? Snap a picture using your phone and email them to me or post it my facebook page! It will be featured in my readers gallery..

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glamelia bouquet for a canadian bride! crepe paper flower wedding

Glamelia's are an old tradition and soo beautiful and here is an order for a 13 inch glamelia  in crepe paper! I have done a few of the glamelia wedding bouquets before and they take a huge amount of time and patience and it is indeed worth the effort and how I would love to get back pictures of the bride holding this!

I was thinking it would be awesome to do some in pastel shades,enjoy the pictures!

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Stephanotis wedding bouquet for a bride in UK

I had been on a month's vacation for my brother's first death anniversary and I am catching up on  orders.One year has flown by and life goes on..

I was thrilled to get an order from UK for a stephanotis wedding bouquet.This bouquets came out so beautiful,they look so elegant and beautiful each time you make them that you want to gaze upon them again..

If you would like to order one for yourself do visit us at my store here we offer customization to suit your needs! They are wonderful keepsake after the wedding and very light and yet so hardy - a beautiful memento to keep of your wedding day for years to come!

Wishing a blessed married life ahead!

How to Make 100 Paper Flowers in Czech!

I received a surprise in my mail today morning! It looks like "How to Make 100 Paper Flowers" will be now available in Czek and with an absolutely wonderful cover.This edition will be in paper back equally cute as the hardbound.

Note: it is Czech - please note correction..

That aside I went shopping ahead of the winter storm here in New England and here is what I found there.I just couldn't resist picking these beauties up. Forced crocuses in a dutch croc and a windmill.SO gorgeous..

A beautiful verse that came to my  mind when I saw these!

"And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship," Exodus 31/3

How to Make Shell Flowers Anemone DIY idea

Last summer while my mother was visiting we had taken my kids to the beach and of course at the end my daughter had to collect some shells.This time with my mother around with her eye for crafting she saw these amazing translucent mother of pearl like shells right where we were standing.She immediately asked me to collect them,she had a great idea to make flowers out of them..which is no surprise as I do remember when I was my daughter's age creating flowers for a wall hanging out of shells.It hung many years on our wall..

Shells collected we went ahead and made these terrific anemones.

Materials

1.Shells - collected on your next summer vacation trip to beach.Make sure to pick translucent shells and evenly shaped.

2.Glue gun

3.Any wooden button or black clay to form center

Method.

1.Cut a small piece of thick scrap paper. (if you have my book you could follow the same directions of the punched out dahlia/camelia to create  this)

2.Apply glue to the shells and stick to the paper rotating the direction of petals to form flower.

3.Alternate the next petals between the center and keep building the flower to form flowers.

4.Attach a stem to the base using glue gun.

5.Use a black button or form a button out of  black clay.Stick your center to the shell flower.

Leaving you with this I snapped of the paper flowers from my book "How to Make 100 Paper Flowers"

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Happy New Year and an update Wreath to match the season

Wishing all of you a happy, healthy and blessed New Year.

I changed up my DIY Xmas Wreath and transformed it onto a wintery valentine wreath. Of course since I had pinned them it was breeze.

1.Create burlap wreath like this

2.Use boutinerre pins to pin on the leaves.

3.Pin the balsa wood flowers.

4.Punch out paper heart. Pin them to the wreath interspersing them..

5.I used a Xmas left over pearl string.Would it around one side and pinned the ends keeping pins to the back.

New Year Wreath Done!

Have a Blessed New Year.

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Easy Paper Flower Topper Tutorial

It has been a busy and blessed season here and we have a wonderful tutorial from BlossomsAndPosies but before that  here are some eye candy for you of my Christmas gifts I gave this time.I tried to do handmade gifts.A gorgeous white peony and anemone arrangement laced with some succulents. 

A poppy based arrangements this time it is all artificial to match a poppy painting hanging in my uncle's room.Some Hair flowers for cousins..

Head on over to make this simple origami pointsettia gift topper inspired from my new book "How to Make 100 Paper Flowers". BlossomsAndPosies  won the challenge on TotallyTutorials  and created this flowers inspired from the Sunburst in the book!!! With 100 flowers to choose from I am sure you too will designing many new flowers with the book.

Happy Crafting!