Inspired by Eloise Corr Danch's beautiful paper flower designs, I attempted to make a paper flower bouquet as a centre piece for my birthday party. Aren't her designs beautiful?
Using scrap booking paper, tissue paper and good ol' PVA, I had a go a making a few. I used some of the skills my Nan had taught me in quilling. She always sends out birthday cards with some of her quilling artwork. Beautiful stuff. This isn't a card of hers, but it gives you an idea of what quilling is:
My own quilling samples (with horrible lighting):
While smaller flowers can be fiddly, they are more co-operative with PVA glue. I swapped to the hot glue gun a couple of times for the larger flowers. The larger ones were surprisingly time consuming, but those that I did make I'm quite proud of.
My baby bouquet
I think the above pink one is my favourite paper flower creation.
The red flower had a bit of zing and attitude to it.
I'll need to make a few more before I get a collection worthy of a centre piece, but I thought I'd share anyway. Until then , I shall continue to admire Eloise's beautiful work.
Oh my goodness, quilling! That brings back memories! I used to have a quilling set and I really enjoyed playing with it. Oh, I'm going to get all nostalgic now...
ReplyDeleteLove your efforts, by the way, you look like you had fun experimenting - that purply-pinky one is gorgeous.
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