Flower 8

Here's a little bunch of teeny weeny flowers toward the top of the card. Easy and fast to make, this is flower 8 from book 1, Floral Punch Craft by Leone Em. My speckled purple paper makes another appearance. Hello again.

You're in the middle of a deconstruction of the project shown on 3 September. Scroll down then back up again if you missed it.

It may seem repetitive to regular readers, but if anyone new pops up, I need them to know... :)

Tomorrow is Crochet Wednesday on the blog, so we're going to take a little break for crochet, and we'll be back Thursday. Stay tuned, flower-lovers!

Flower 5

Ah, flower 5. This one's quite large and is great just on its own, but I used it as the corner anchor piece for my arrangement (3 September entry). Colour was added with water-based brush pens. The leaves were shaded with pigment ink direct-to-paper. It makes a big difference.

You're in the middle of a deconstruction of a project shown on 3 September. Scroll down to there and back up if you missed it. :)

Flower 4

This isn't what flower 4 is really supposed to look like. I don't have the right punch for the orange bits. The purple paper is speckled because I wanted to vary the colour a bit and used a pigment ink pad direct to paper to just shade it a bit.

This flower was really fun to make. At first, it was completely flat. Then I followed one little instruction in the book and the flower just sprang to life! This is so much fun...

I know I've mentioned it a lot... Floral Punch Craft, Leone Em. :) Great stuff.

Flower 3

These are flower number 3. They're made with stars of two sizes and a teeny weeny flower. I'm not sure they should look quite as crumply as they do but they're still a good part of the arrangement. Check out 3 September for the finished product.

A Study in Purple, Yellow and Orange

This FPC Friday features a card that will kick off Floral Punch Craft week. I call it "A Study in Purple" and it is made up of flowers 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 and 11 from book 1 of Leone Em's Floral Punch Craft series. I made them all up in purple, yellow and orange because I intended to use them all together.

Here's the card. Also included i this card is a little orange Tiger Lily that I learned in a class. I think similar flowers are in Book 5.

I think the card needs a bit of improvement, the arrangement is top-heavy so I'm going to have to add more to the bottom of it.

Every day this week, I will feature a close-up of each flower used on this card. We take a break for Crochet Wednesday and then we resume, concluding on the next FPC Friday with the final flower used in the card.

I hope you enjoy it!

Stash-busting!

I've been papercrafting for quite some time in one form or another and as with any papercrafter, my "stash" of paper and cardstock tends to pile up and get a bit heavy. It's not just whole sheets of paper or card waiting to be used for a project. Sometimes it's the scraps-- those pieces that are just too big to throw away or recycle, but too small to stay in the new paper pile.

The other thing that tends to build up is kit leftovers. When you buy a whole selection of supplies and use them for a while and then forget about them, the dregs tend to hang around and take up space.

I have combined these two things quite well and made something not only useful, but current with the scraps and kit leftovers.

For the uninitiated, these are seen quite a lot on cards. They're scalloped circle mats. They're also useful for writing on scrapbook pages, etc etc... I took my scraps of card from my box and cut the scalloped circles out on my Craft Robo. They were sized specifically to fit the circles that I already had-- the kit leftovers. I had a bunch of card blanks with apertures in them and I kept the circles and squares that were cut out but left in the pack. I've had them for years and I've only just now done something with them.

Yeah, I'm pleased with myself. It's one of those things, if you're not a crafter you won't understand. Just smile and nod.

Art of Crochet Square 29

Check this out- basketweave pattern! I made a bag with a similar pattern s couple of years ago, but this one seemed to take a long time and use up a lot more yarn. Still fun to make though. :)

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