Flower Tutorial & A Tea Party

Today I am sharing with you a special tea my daughter Tammy had for a fellow blogger, now friend, Miss Sherry of Country Wings In Phoenix and also a flower tutorial below. Sherry was here visiting her parents and Tammy offered to have a tea in honor of her visit. As always, Tammy out did herself in all the preparations of this beautiful tea. Lots of good eats and eye candy all over her home. I am sure she will post about this tea herself so be sure to check on her blog, not sure when she will post it.

This is sweet Miss Sherry and Miss Tammy.

And Sherry and myself. We didn't plan wearing the Halloween colors, just turned out that way, lol.

The beautiful tablescape Tammy designed for the tea, see the little name place gift boxes at each place setting. It was full of treats and love.

I brought these cute little acorn treats. Donut holes dipped in Nutella and dipped in pecans with a pretzel stuck in top. Good too. A good time was had by all. Sherry called Marydon while she was there and we all got to talk to sweet Marydon which was a treat for me. Be sure to check out Tammys blog for more on this great tea party.

Now, onto the paper rose tutorial. I love making these flowers, so fast and easy. I think I have shown these before but wanted to try my hand at a tutorial, so here goes.

You will need some pages from anything, but I used dictionary paper, I have also used music pages, but any paper would work. Also two sizes of scalloped punches as shown in picture above (you could also cut your own with scalloped scissors. Also if you like the old look, use distress ink to ink the edges of each petal. To hold them together I used a pearl brad but you could use buttons, glue or whatever you like.

After punching out the petals, (I used 4 larger ones and two smaller ones)

use the distress ink on a sponge and go along the outside edges of each petal. This is optional.

Then wad each petal in a little ball to give it some crinkles, then unfold them.

Place in a stack with the two small ones on the top and punch a pinhole in middle and add your brad.

Then starting with the top one, wad each petal up to make it fluffy.

Now you have a flower. I opted to put silver stickles glitter on the edges for more glitz but do whatever your style is. So easy peasy, I told you!!!!

My finished flower. Now you can add these in groups on anything, like gifts, antique books without their covers, wreaths, etc. The sky is the limit.

I glued my flower on the top edge of a clothes pin and used it on this paper bag gift bag. So cute. Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and hope you will give it a try.

I am linking to Pink Saturday, Show and Tell Friday & White Wednesday

and Feathered Nest Friday

Hugs

Ginger