so I thought I would share a few little papercraft projects with you.
Its a ball made from Kusudama flowers, I found the tutorial online at Folding Trees.com .
The tutorial comes in two parts, the first part is how to fold and glue the individual kusudama flowers.
It was quite a fiddly task making all the individual kusudama flowers...
They require lots of patience, careful cutting, plenty of fiddling with glue & many, many clothes pegs!
But I really liked the look of the finished ball featured in part two so I had to keep going..........
until finally TAAA DAH!!
I had THIS !
Glueing a combination of the 3 different coloured flowers all together, I made this pretty hanging decoration.
The next papery project concludes with a bit of a mystery...
Well it started off happily enough, my beautiful sister and her equally beautiful (but much sassier!) daughter celebrate their birthdays this week.
I made two cards; one for my sister.....
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| featuring watercolours, pen and the recycling of a bunny from her last years birthday card to me! |
And one for my niece....
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| featuring some lovely little felt bunnies I picked up in Paperchase last year. |
so I popped the cards in my handbag and headed off to the post office to but two envelopes ...
got to the post office...
hand in bag.......NO CARDS !
Decided I had left them at home (could even picture them , back home on the kitchen counter!)
Went home .... NO CARDS !
So SOMEWHERE in this sprawling metropolis
SOMEONE is in posession of these two handmade cards
and I am hoping that when my lovely sister sees that I DID make her a card
she'll forgive me for not having had one from me to open on her birthday !
I have a crafty plan to make it up to her that I might just share with you next time ...
Thanks for visiting,
Siubhan x
hi there and welcome to the world of blogging, thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment its a great feeling when you get comments, makes it all worthwhile, love your crochet especially the shawl, what a shame about your birthday cards
ReplyDeletehi again forgot about sock monkeys, first one was made from a kit then I did find a tutorial online for them great fun to make and so easy
ReplyDeleteThanks Joan !
DeleteFor visiting, your lovely comments & of course following little ole me! I think my sister has forgiven me already about the birthday cards!! (luckily I had the photographic evidence!)
Did you know my name, is your name, in gaelic !?
S x
Well, you are certainly off to a great start to your blog! Wonderful cards and the crochet... wish I knew how to do that! The paper flower decoration is precious! I would be making those for every room in the house if I were you! Too cute!
ReplyDeleteThanks you Amanda for your kind words & encouragment ! I really love your blog too !
ReplyDeleteThese are LOVELY!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, and your mohair shawl is lovely too! SO happy you stopped by. I'm now a follower :)
Thank you so much ! & SNAP! I'm a follower of yours ! x
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