Holiday Crafting

I was standing in front of a display of huge lilies at the grocery store today, recalling that the last time I had purchased them. Kittens and fresh flowers do not make a great combination and within a day, they were mangled all over my floor. I decided this year instead of purchasing flowers, I would make them out of paper and display them around the house. Stampin’ Up!’s Idea Book and Catalog for the Fall-Winter year had a really interesting take on a paper flower that I wanted to recreate.

I also have been thinking about this vase I purchased last year at Target’s annual “day after Christmas, let’s mark everything down 70%” sale. I am determined to use the vase in my home decor for this holiday, so I have been playing with ideas for a few weeks now. One problem is the cute snowflakes on the outside; you can’t really see them unless you get close to it. So, I thought if I slid a page of Stampin’ Up!’s Baja Breeze card stock into the base it might show the snowflake pattern better. It does, but I think it would look even better with a brighter color. One of the good things about this is that you can put florist foam in the base of the vase and arrange your flowers exactly how you want them to stand without having to see the foam.

This is my first stab at creating paper flowers for my house. You can play along too- here are the directions to make one flower:

1. Using a scallop punch:  punch 3 times in patterned paper and once in coordinating card stock.
2. Cut the 3 patterned paper scallop punches in half.
3. For each 1/2 scallop, curl them until one scallop edge is overlapping another scallop edge and adhere together. I used mini glue dots and it worked perfectly.
4. Once all of your patterned paper 1/2 scallops are curled, you want to use additional glue dots to adhere them to the card stock scallop.
5. Adhere a button to the center of the flower to hide the paper tips… and voila!

I put two of these flowers back-to-back on decorative twigs I purchased from an area craft store (some how buying them at the store is better than picking them up from the yard and cleaning them?). I’m not 100% liking them in that particular vase, so I will need to move them. I am thinking a shorter vase with a smaller opening at the top.

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