Last night and this morning I was working on a red, white and blue bouquet. I cut 8 to 10 petals with the Spellbinders scalloped hearts for each flower. After cutting the size I wanted I cut out smaller hearts with the leftover paper. The scraps that were left will be processed into paper. Then I glued them together just as in the tutorial on this blog. Finally I edged the flowers with gold ink by brushing the ink pad over the finished flowers. Next I started the arrangement. I took a canning jar and took out the center and glued a large Styrofoam ball to the lid. Next I alternated red and white flowers, low temp gluing and pushing their dowels into the foam. To go with the July 4th theme I wanted blue in the design but not as a flower. So I took a yard of blue gingham and filled the jar with it. After three rows of flowers I realized that it was going to take to many flowers to finish any time soon. So I left off at that point. But here are some pictures of what is done.
So far I think they are coming out well. I really like the blue gingham inside the jar. I could change it out for green for Mexico's Independence Day.
Today was also turn projects into the fair day. I brought several wrong projects but I got seven right and into the fair.
It hasn't been the best of days because a kidney stone is doing it's best to irritate me but I'm bigger than it so I should win!
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