More roses

 I wanted to see how much bigger the roses made with the Island Floral Bigshot die were.
The original post can be found here:

http://papercraftsloveaffair.blogspot.com/2010/10/long-stem-roses.html

Here are the results:

This picture shows the difference in the two sizes.

Hope this inspires you to experiment as well.


Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

Long Stem Roses!

I have been playing with the 3D flower ideas that are out there and had made the roses from the fancy flower punch. They are lovely but as they sat there on my desk I thought that they looked so real surely I could make them with a stem. So........

I love how they look.
I've added a small scalloped oval leaf that has been double punched to get the right shape.

 They are built on a wooden skewer and then wrapped with floral tape I then glue one of the small flowers from the Boho blossom punch to the underside of the flowers.I punch a small hole in it then slide it up the stem and glue it in place.

These were all made with the directions from this Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1M49FXhmPI (no longer available, thanks, Jenna!)

Try these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYuESyUsVgc&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URaKSZ3YxWo
 
I built them on the end of the skewer instead of having them sitting flat. I didn't have to cut the bottoms off of the pieces either because they were wrapped around the skewer; instead I used a standard hole punch (1/4 inch) to punch a hole in the center of the paper piece so it would fit around the skewer easily.
I hope you like my flowers that will never fade.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri

Giant Acrylic Clothes pins

I found these giant acrylic clothes pins at our local dollar store and decided I could alter them with paper.
Well this is what I came up with and they are very cute/pretty if I do say so myself.
They came in different colors but I picked up the clear ones and they measure 6 inches long by an inch and 3/8.

There is a space on the back side of these so the DSP just slides into it and I secured it with some mini glue dots ; I then just added punches and ribbon to decorate them.
For the pink and red one I used the new Sending Love Specialty paper and the With All My Heart stamp set, the new Extra Large Flower punch, Pretty in Pink Epoxy Brads and the Beautiful Wings embosslet all from the new Occaisions Mini catalogue.I added a Real Red gross grain ribbon bow( I haven't got the new satin ribbon yet, but it is on it's way), there is also some dazzling diamonds on the red areas of the flower at the top but the picture doesn't show this.




The second one; I used the Tea party DSP from the IBC, I stamped the scalloped circle from the Vintage Labels set in the SAB catalogue in Certainly Celery then added a Cameo Coral mini flourish and a basic black "friends" from the Tiny Tags stamp set in the Occaisions Mini, a celery ribbon from the retired SAB from last yeat and a tiny tag "for you" punched with the new punch in the new mini was tied on with a small piece of linen thread.

Hope you enjoy!
I am off tomorrow for a stamping/crop weekend retreat that my upline is having. It should be a blast and I hope to get alot of stamping done. I will share when I get back.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharri