showeredwithgrace

This week's  unplugged project:  Wrinkle

We made paper flowers in anticipation for spring.  First we tried these which were too complicated for Rose Red so I ended up making only two by myself.  They ended up looking more like full blown roses rather than the shapely young roses they were supposed to end up looking like (however, I think we liked the romantic look of our full bloomed roses better)

  

   

 

But prettier still were the ones we made together.  They were very simple ~ just colored tissue cut into two size circles, stacked and pierced through with pipe cleaner which was then twisted into a stem.  Finally we wrinkled the colored tissue into beautiful flowers.

 

   

   

 

 

So cheerful !

 

 

Tomorrow's the day ~ we've been creating lovely valentine suncatchers this afternoon to prepare.  If valentine's has crept up on you too, this is a simple and quick craft.  All you need is clear contact paper and cut up pieces of colored tissues, scissors and ribbon to hang if you like.  We cut the contact paper in squares, littered the sticky side with colored tissue, topped with another square of contact paper and pressed them together.  Then we cut them out into heart shapes and hung them up.  Easy peasy.  And soooo pretty.