DT projecct for Craft-Room challenge 'make your own flowers'

Well we had some truly inspirational entries to our travel/postcard challenge this fortnight, so let's see what you can do with our new challenge at Craft-Room challenge this time.  Our challenge is 'make your own flowers'  Now I did wonder what to do for this challenge until I thought 'My husbandnever buys me flowers!'

Well nowhe won't have to as I have created my own that sit on our dining room table!  I hope you like them.

Here is a photo of the items I have used for this project, A vase that was on sale for £3! a bag of pot pourri, some garden sticks,green and black card, and a spellbinders flower die.

here are the flowers cut out and partly put together, I have used a flower on each side of the stick and glued the largest petals together so that you don't see the stick inside!

Here is the fininshed project

A close up of the floers, I have used a large pearl gem at the centre the gems around it to create the flower centre, I have just trimmed thick card stock very thinly  and it swirls naturally for the black stalks 

A close up of the vase decoration, created with the same flower but I have added a marianne creatables die swirl to it with gems

I will be entering this project into the following challenges

http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/2011/11/fbc-74.html Black for black friday

http://inkyimpressionschallenges.blogspot.com/ Handmade embellishments

http://www.papercraftstar.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://ynschallenges.blogspot.com/ Die cuts

http://www.palspaperarts.com/ Pearls

http://outlawzchallenges.ning.com/group/prismaandothermediums/forum/topics/twisted-thursday-nov-24-anything-goes Anything goes

http://clearlyistamp.typepad.com/my_weblog/ Flowers

http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.com/ Sparkle

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/ Sparkle

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

NIKKI