Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Organza Flowers

I went to buy some flowers the other day and was truly horrified at the price! Being a relative newbie to papercrafting I naively thought that they'd be a couple of pounds - how wrong was I? The unpriced pack I'd picked up were in excess of £4 - yikes! So I decided that I'd try and make some! Fortunately I didn't have to look very hard, as SJ at Little Musing had a fab tutorial to make some look-a-likee Prima flowers and then I found this tutorial.

The organza cost me £1.25 a metre and the large beads I have used were very kindly given to me by Jennie (The Wife from MSE) and the smaller seed beads were in a huge pack from Poundland.

I have made the flowers in different sizes and have also combined the two methods to create a slightly different bloom. I'm going to try colouring white organza ones with my Promarkers. Additionally, I have purchased some pearl bracelets from Primark for £1 and got somewhere in the region of 150 beads, I will also try colouring these.

Anyway, here are my attempts:

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9 comments:

  1. Unknown6 April 2010 at 19:40

    Your flowers look really good Claire!

    Poppy x

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  2. Susan (aka TomsMom)6 April 2010 at 19:42

    These are fantastic, well done!

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  3. dragonllew6 April 2010 at 19:45

    They look fab

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  4. Karen6 April 2010 at 20:15

    WOW!! they are really beautiful and so elegant x

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  5. Sarah6 April 2010 at 22:30

    Wow they are gorgeous!!! I love all of them, did they take long to make?

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  6. Angie - Bumble Bee's Craft Den7 April 2010 at 00:03

    Lovely flowers,all quite different looking also. Very pretty.

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  7. Marg7 April 2010 at 00:10

    Oh they are lovely, so pretty - off to look at tutorials now!

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  8. Jennie - The Crafty Wife7 April 2010 at 10:10

    Fab and defo something I'm going to try. Thanks for the heads up on the tutorial.

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  9. hassy7 April 2010 at 20:53

    They are gorgeous, the colours are lovely... Good idea looking in Primark for beads .. very mse.. where is my nearest one??? :D Christine x

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