Scrap Paper Flowers - by Michele

Ingredients:

Paper scraps from MME “Mary Mary” paper pack and EP “A Walk In The Park” paper

MM brads

Letter cut from MME “Lush” paper

Stickles (Eucalyptus)

Second hand wood plaque painted with MM “Dusk” paint

Butterflies made from EP “A Walk In The Park” paper

How to make paper scrap flowers:

Round scrap flowers

*Take 6 circles and tear them each to a different size (NOTE…..save the paper that is torn from these circles….you will need them later!!!).

*Putting the largest on the bottom, stack the circles so the littlest one is on top. Using a paper piercer, make a hole in the center of the smallest circle and insert a brad.

*Bend, fold, crumple….however you want to distress your flower and adhere to your project.

Scrappy petal flowers

*Using 6 pieces of scrap paper (make them no bigger than 1”), gather the pieces by a corner and staple together.

*Fold, curl, or crumple the corners and sides to add a little life to the flower.

*Remember the paper torn from the circles that I told you to keep???? Curl them.

*Take the curled up paper scraps and form a center to your flower. When you get it to the size you want, use some adhesive to seal the end.

*Glue the center to the flower.

Leaves for the flowers

Need super easy leaves??

*Cut out some hearts.

*Cut them down the middle.

*Attach to the bottom of your flower.

*Curl the leaf if desired.