Happy Easter to all reading my blog in this beautiful season of Easter, I love Easter as it not only reinforces my faith as a Christian, but it signals better weather on the horizon. Having lighter days is a delight as the flowers and plants slowly emerge from their winter bliss.
I love flowers as they bring a naturalness into your home and surroundings, Stampin Up are retiring the Climbing Orchid stampset and the Orchid Builder framelits dies, and I wanted to showcase them and to encourage you to purchase this set as a staple for paper flower making, for home decor pieces.
I have created a paper vase and paper Orchid display to showcase the set, paper flowers are beautiful for any occasion and you have the satisfaction of making them and being able to see them all year round.
For the centres of the Orchids I used glimmer paper as I feel it just adds something blingy.
I stamped and embossed the orchid images onto whisper white cardstock, I then lightly inked the images with Petal Pink Ink. I gave the flowers shape by using my bone folder and gently shaping them. I attached the flowers to florist wire and florist green tape and then arranged them into the oasis that I had put in the vase. The buds were made using the four petal punch, cutting away one of the petals and glueing the other three petals together. the large leaves I cut free hand.
The vase is made from velum and one of the other papers in the pack of DSP. The Butterflys were from the Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies
If you want to make the vase check out this tutorial Enjoy xx