My friend Jenny and I love to craft together. She and I started a Silver leafing project awhile back and although Jenny has finished her beautiful jewelry cabinet and posted it on her blog, I have not finished my cabinet. I ran out of silver leaf and knowing I would not be able to work on it for a bit, did not order more right away.
I placed the order and I have worked on my cabinet again and it is almost finished!
Silver leaf comes in "books" with each delicate sheet of silver between two sheets of orange tissue paper.
As each book of leaf is used up, you have a lovely book
of orange tissue sheets left over.
of orange tissue sheets left over.
Being the thrifty person I am (OK, really a pack rat!)
I could not bear to throw them away!
I could not bear to throw them away!
The tissue reminded me of the delicate petals of poppies, especially our beautiful California Poppy,
our state flower, that is a bloom all over the state right now.
our state flower, that is a bloom all over the state right now.
Since they reminded me of flowers I got out a Sizzix die and cut the tissue books into flowers. I could cut a whole book of flowers out at once, 25+ sheets with the Sizzix die and my Cuttlebug.
After the flowers were cut I used some Shimmerz spray ink on each flower.
I then dried each with my heat gun to give the petals a soft crinkled look.
I then tore some book print paper from Stampin' Up into strips and stamped stems,
leaves and grass on to the book paper.
I mixed some Close to My Heart stamps from two different sets for my grass and stems.
To give the flowers some more dimension, I folded and pinched just the centers together. I placed a drop of glue at the stamped stem ends and pressed the flower centers to the paper. A final touch to the flowers was
a bit of yellow Stickles in the center.
I adhered the book paper to an orange card, added a bit of twine for an accent and all done!
If you have a ??'s about the stamps, papers or would love a field of poppies of your own (believe me I have some poppies to spare), leave a comment!
oh Berta! Are these your lovely swap cards by chance?! I love that you found a great use for the orange tissue pages. You are living up to your blog name!
ReplyDeleteO.M.G. These are BEAUTIFUL!! Why, oh why did I throw my tissue out? I hope these are for the swap, because I will so never give this card away!
ReplyDeleteI knew that I should have done the swap... those turned out so great!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Berta, I left you a little something on my Thursday post. You will have to check it out :)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you did this with something most people would just throw away without even thinking. They are so beautiful!
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