Flowers that don't need watering!

So as I have mentioned several times over the last few weeks spring is here and things are blooming all around.

Love these!

 This rose bush is covered in flowers... so many it's laying on the ground now.

I can't remember what these are called but they are so pretty, I wish I had a field of them!

And this little surprise! It's a pumpkin plant, a pumpkin rotted in this last fall and now we have one on the way!
Anyway I thought I would try to make some flowers for the inside of the house, don't need a green thumb for that!

I have been craving ( do you crave design???) something with this kind of vintage feel.

I love the newspaper print with the icy blue colors. This one is 2 layers, the blue paper I cut with a border punch.

And this paper I am just in love with. You may remember I used it for a dress on my paper dolls here

This paper has a little sparkle to it too. I had intended to use my Silhouette for the centers of all of these but someone was on my computer, so I went old school and used punches and scissors. I love how they turned out.

I shredded up some newspaper to use for grass. Notice the stems on the flowers, I used 3 different kinds of ribbons to wrap the dowels with. Such a simple thing but I love how they look.

 Another little peek, I wish I had used this ribbon on one of the ones in the front, it's my fav.

 I didn't make a tutorial on how to make these. I found all kinds of sources on Youtube. I will tell you that some suggested a die that you put thru a machine and some suggested scoring and measuring. I did do some like that but then got tired and again went old school and just accordion folded them. If you are going to go that route I suggest get about half of it done by scoring it and then go on your own. The larger flowers are made with 2 pieces of paper 2 1/4 wide and 12 inches long and then glued together. You can find one video I used to learn how to make these. So which kind of flowers are you going to try out, the ones that need tlc or the ones that don't?

Partying at Gypsy's Corner