Hi guys! This is part two of my submissions to Somerset Life magazine. I showed my tart tin ornaments yesterday. This challenge was for items made from newspaper. I make a lot of paper flowers and roses so this was a good fit for me. I love making roses out of alternative paper. I have used maps, monopoly money, dictionary pages, sheet music..newspaper was not a big leap! I never really noticed how much color is in your average newspaper. I sorted my petal shapes into piles according to their color, black and white for some and the more colorful ad pages for others.
I varied the sizes of the roses also.
Then I arranged them on a cardboard ring shape until I had a pleasing arrangement. Then out came the glue gun.
I alternated colorful ones with black and white and little ones next to big.
I felt it needed leaves and I thought since it was already an unconventional wreath, that black leaves would look sharp. I gave them white "stitch lines" with a white gel pen to give them a bit of extra "pop". It seemed modern yet old fashioned at the same time if that makes any sense!
It is funny what different light and background can do to a photo. This was on my dining room wall..I like the direct sunlight shot better, it's much clearer.
I also made a paper bloom out of the comics, sports section and sudoku section.
I added vintage buttons to the center and black leaves to this also. This has a pinback, but could also easily have a clip back or magnet depending on where you wanted to use it. I have made similar blooms to these in my Etsy shop before. I love layering vintage papers of all sorts. I am into Dr. Seuss-like flowers! The wreath was sort of a first, now I need to make some for my shop. Here's to unconventionality! Hope you have a great day! Til next time! Julia
Hi guys! This is my latest clothespin wreath. I had collected some really pretty scrapbook paper in aquas and reds and they sparked the idea for this wreath's theme.
Also, I remember when I was little going to my grandparent's church for a dinner and walking in the kitchen to see Gramma who was in there with a bunch of other ladies..all in dresses and aprons! I must have been young because they were tall. I remember perusing the buffet table with my cousin Greg, deciding what we were going to eat when time came. Two things I remember making an impression were macaroni salad with marshmallows and fruit cocktail and whipped cream in a big white Fire King bowl with red dots and a huge angelfood cake with sticky pale pink marshmallow frosting. I have since collected and been gifted a set (and a couple more) of those Fire King nesting bowls..some of my favorite items! (Thanks again Debbie!)
So here are the red dots and the pale pink!
The red roses I made from cardstock.
The pale pink rosebuds are made from cupcake liners because it was the only pale pink paper I had in the house that day! I like how they turned out.
The rest of the flowers have layers of vintage and antique sheet music (Mozart), vintage French lit pages, vintage French to English dictionary pages, vintage Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice pages (I always read as I snip!) and antique German bible study book pages. The middles are vintage mother of pearl buttons and pearly jewelry beads and bits with touches of pink glitter. I just could not hold back the glitter on this one!
The leaves are aqua paper encrusted with crystal glitter. I have a different one that I am working on flowers for now..different scheme of course. I will share it when it is done.
These are the flowers my daughter's boyfriend picked for her and left in her car while she was at work this weekend. Awwwww! My husband said he needs to tell him he is setting a bad example! I told him that is how it is SUPPOSED to be! LOL. Hope your week is filled with flowers! Til next time! Julia
