What you do
Take 2 small bowls and place 2-3 tablespoons of water in each. Add 3-4 drops of
food coloring (color 1) to one dish and 3-4 drops of
food coloring (color 2) to the second dish.
Scrunch the coffee filters up and place one in each dish so they are covered with the water. You can remove the filters right away for a light color or leave them in for a while for a darker color. Remove the coffee filters when ready and squeeze the excess coloring out over a sink.
Lay the filters flat to dry on a paper towel.
When the filters are dry, take the center color and fold it in half to make a half circle. Fold again to make a quarter pie shape. Fold twice more so you have a narrow wedge. Cut a curve around the wedge 1/2 inch from the wide end. ---practice on plain paper!
Repeat with the outer color except cut the curve right at the wide edge. This will give you large flower shape and a smaller flower shape.
C
enter the small flower shape over the large flower shape. Poke the skewer through the center of the circles and slide the skewer all the way through leaving 1/2 inch in the flower. Twist the bottom 1/2 inch of the flower around the skewer and tape with clear tape to hold tight. Push the petals down adjusting them until you are happy with the way they look.
Cut a few leaves from the green construction paper and glue to the stem. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brown Bag valentine heart---so cute!!!!
brown grocery bag
acrylic paint in red and pink
toothbrush- or something to spay tiny splatters with
paintbrush
fine tip black marker
pinking shears
small material scrap in gingham or other pattern of your choice
heart shaped buttons, small pink, medium red
cotton batting - I used scrunched tissue paper
white craft glue of sort
craft wire-the easy bendable twistable kind
pencil
raffia for bow
hot glue gun
What you doLay brown paper bag on flat work surface. Cut out two large sections from the front and back of the bag. Stack those sections, one on top of the other, then fold them in half. Draw half a heart, with the fold being in the middle of the heart, then cut it out with the pinking shears.
Beginning at the bottom of the heart, use tacky glue to connect the two layers at the seams, stuffing the heart as you go with cotton batting (Fiberfil). Work your way around the edges, carefully stuffing (but not too much!) until heart is completely closed.
When the glue is dry, paint the heart red, leaving the decorative edges plain as seen in the photo. When the red paint is dry, dip the bristle tips of a toothbrush into the pink paint. Test your flecking ability on a piece of scrap paper before doing this on your heart. Hold toothbrush horizontally and drag your thumb across the bristles, causing the paint to fleck spots wherever you aim it. When you are comfortable with this method, go ahead and fleck some pink paint on your heart.
When pink paint is dry, use the black fine tip marker to write BE MINE, placing decorative dots at the point of each letter. Use pinking shears to cut out a small heart from the gingham scrap material. Use white glue to adhere the material heart to the upper right hand corner of your brown bag heart. Use white glue to adhere a small pink heart shaped button to the material scrap.
Cut a piece of craft wire long enough to wrap completely around your heart. This should be enough for your hanger. Find the middle of craft wire, wrap the middle section of the wire around a pencil about 6 or 7 times. Pull the pencil out to create the curl at the top of your hanger. Curve the wire into a hanger shape and poke each end carefully through the sides of the heart as shown in the photo. Use the skinny end of a small paintbrush to curl the ends of the wire that you poked through.
Using raffia, tie a bow out onto the craft wire just before where the top curls begin. Using a hot glue gun, glue the medium sized red heart shaped button to the center of the raffia. Spray the entire heart with a coat of acrylic sealant.
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How to Make a
Mexican Paper Flower
Materials needed for one flower:
4 sheets of tissue paper (any color) 6" x 12" each
1 pipe cleaner
scissors
ruler
coloring marker
perfume
1. Stack 4 pieces of tissue paper together.
2. Fold the tissue paper together starting at the bottom allowing 1" folds. Fan fold back and forth making a 1" by 6" piece.
3. Cut the folded tissue at both ends as shown, rounding off the corners.
4. Fold a pipe cleaner in half. This is used for the flower stem. Squeeze the tissue paper in the middle and twist the piper cleaner tightly to secure.
5. Fan out the piece on both sides of the pipe cleaner. Remember there are 4 layers. Begin pulling up the petals. Start with the top tissue being careful not to tear it. After you have done the top layer, go on to the second layer, then the third and the fourth. Straighten out the flower to your liking.
6. You may use a marker to highlight and add more color to your flower.
7. The pipe cleaner may be shaped into a leaf on one side.
8. Spray a light mist of perfume on the flower.
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