Completely AW- my craft project is actually working!

Re: Completely AW- my craft project is actually working!

• beachyone15 member

  

  July 2014

  That looks great! I love the colors!
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• theartistformerlyknownas member

  

  July 2014

  Oh my goodness, my fingers hurt just looking at that. Nice work!

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• emmaaa mod

  

  July 2014

  A lady I used to work with loved making paper flowers. She ended up making paper flowers for her daughters wedding for everything! Centerpieces, bouquets, bouts., you name it. Very talented.

  
  

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• wandajune6 member

  

  July 2014

  emmaaa said:

  A lady I used to work with loved making paper flowers. She ended up making paper flowers for her daughters wedding for everything! Centerpieces, bouquets, bouts., you name it. Very talented.

  I thought about doing that. My mom loves real flowers and it's the only thing she's really pushed on for the wedding. I'm having fresh flowers for centerpieces for our centerpieces and bouquets. It will make her happy.
  

  

  

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• emmaaa mod

  

  July 2014

  wandajune6 said:

  emmaaa said:

  A lady I used to work with loved making paper flowers. She ended up making paper flowers for her daughters wedding for everything! Centerpieces, bouquets, bouts., you name it. Very talented.

  I thought about doing that. My mom loves real flowers and it's the only thing she's really pushed on for the wedding. I'm having fresh flowers for centerpieces for our centerpieces and bouquets. It will make her happy.
  

  I think that is a good compromise! In the end, it is only flowers. I will never have the patience for paper flowers though so more power to you.

  
  

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• mrsmorales2be mod

  

  July 2014

  Beautiful!     Nice work!

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• wabanzi member

  

  July 2014

  wandajune6 said:

  I'm not crafty. I love craft projects but usually screw them up so badly that they're unusable. However, I got a bit obsessed with @wabanzi's topiary shortly after joining TK and decided I had to do it.
  
  I'm doing a matching pair but have only completed the first one. The second one is halfway done- I have most of the flowers made but haven't added them yet. I still need to get fancy planters and add ribbons, etc. but I'm super-excited about how they've turned out. I've also made pomanders/kissing balls (what's the difference?) out of the flowers for the flower girls to carry. If I have time/paper, I'll make some extra pomanders to decorate the ceremony site.
  
  So excited!
  ETA: the pictures looked better on my phone last night. Sorry!

  Thank you for the compliment and I love your work. What a nice post to read after returning from our honeymoon :-) We ended up using the topiaries for the ceremony and reception. Guests kept going up to them and touching, examining, talking about them. So yeah a lot of paper folding (but hey, I also folded a 1000 cranes) but I would do them all over again. Besides, it was a great excuse to re-watch Breaking Bad.

   

   

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• ashley8918 member

  

  July 2014

  OMGosh. Please tell me that there is a tutorial for this out there on the interwebz. Those are beautiful!

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• Peaseblossom55 mod

  

  July 2014

  wow they are beautiful!

  
  

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• wandajune6 member

  

  July 2014

  wabanzi said:

  wandajune6 said:

  I'm not crafty. I love craft projects but usually screw them up so badly that they're unusable. However, I got a bit obsessed with @wabanzi's topiary shortly after joining TK and decided I had to do it.
  
  I'm doing a matching pair but have only completed the first one. The second one is halfway done- I have most of the flowers made but haven't added them yet. I still need to get fancy planters and add ribbons, etc. but I'm super-excited about how they've turned out. I've also made pomanders/kissing balls (what's the difference?) out of the flowers for the flower girls to carry. If I have time/paper, I'll make some extra pomanders to decorate the ceremony site.
  
  So excited!
  ETA: the pictures looked better on my phone last night. Sorry!

  Thank you for the compliment and I love your work. What a nice post to read after returning from our honeymoon :-) We ended up using the topiaries for the ceremony and reception. Guests kept going up to them and touching, examining, talking about them. So yeah a lot of paper folding (but hey, I also folded a 1000 cranes) but I would do them all over again. Besides, it was a great excuse to re-watch Breaking Bad.

  Thank you! There's still more to do, plus more pomanders. But I'm excited!

  

  

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• JoanE2012 member

  

  July 2014

  Very pretty!

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• ashley8918 member

  

  July 2014

  @wabanzi I am totally making your topiariy. They are beautiful!

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• wabanzi member

  

  July 2014

  ashley8918 said:
  

  OMGosh. Please tell me that there is a tutorial for this out there on the interwebz. Those are beautiful!

  I posted here how I made them.

  And my cat liked them too :-)  Still waiting on pro pics...

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

   

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• ashley8918 member

  

  July 2014

  wabanzi said:

  ashley8918 said:
  

  OMGosh. Please tell me that there is a tutorial for this out there on the interwebz. Those are beautiful!

  I posted here how I made them.

  And my cat liked them too :-)  Still waiting on pro pics...

  
  

  
  

  
  

  I may or may not have stalked your TK posts to find this earlier! My first practice flower was not as nice as yours or @wandajune6's, but I think I can manage to get them a little better.

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