Paper Flowers

Sorry, we took a little break. Both ladies in this blog are now expecting, and have been dealing with this excitement. Here is the one project we have accomplished. It's super-easy. You should try it. Here is the original tutorial. I'm not sure if we used this one, but I forgot to save the link, so I googled "Paper Flowers" and chose this link.

1) Find or cut a small piece or card stock and begin drawing one continuous, dizzying line

2) This is what the paper should look like. You can skip these steps, but it is easier to follow a line.

3) Cut along the line. Also, make sure that the outer edge is round, not square.

4) You get a cute swirly paper that could probably be used as a decoration at this step. SEE? Even though we left everyone hanging for a few weeks, we gave you TWO crafts in one. Your welcome ;)

5) All you do at this step is start rolling up the paper. My cousin used to have ribbon with her all the time and would constantly roll it and unroll it. OCD  maybe, but this is the idea with the paper. Just don't unroll it.

6) When you are done, let go! What should happen is that you will have a loose rolled up paper that looks like a rose. 

7) Make more! As you can see, we mostly used solid-colored card stock, but I also tried a couple with some printed paper. Printed paper is a bit flimsy, and would be more interesting with colors on both sides.

Ideas for use: 

• Put on wrapped present instead of bows
• Attach to small short (or tall) branches and use for home, party, or deck decor.

Those are the only two ideas that we came up with so far. There are probably more-feel free to use you imagination!