Paper Doilie Flower

Sorry about the grainy photos.

While shopping at Walmart I picked up a pack of paper doilies.  I've seen so many crafts done with them that I thought I'm sure I'll figure out something to do with them.

Tutorial to come and hopefully with better pictures too!

What to do with those flowers...

I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what I could do with these paper flowers.

I couldn't figure it out.  So, I began looking through the best place for ideas, my list of blogs that I read.  Here's what I found.

These were created by Heather @ Me Making Do.  Can you believe she made these out of SOUP CANS?!?!  Well, what are you waiting for?  Go check it out, you know you're wondering how she did it.

Paper & Fabric Flowers, & Craft Fail

I have been on a roll lately making this cute little things.

I think this one is my favorite.  Instead of the constant circle shapes in the middle I did a square and a pin wheel.  I really like how it turned out.

This one is full of recycled materials.  The book page in the back of course, a pretty flower image that I cut out of an old magazine, another book page, a luffa I had laying around and some fabric from an old makeup bag.  I love the button I found in my SMALL stash.

I love the look of burlap but have none on hand.  I found a Starbucks advertisement in a magazine and the background looked like burlap!  I cut it out and used it for this paper flower.  LOVE! <3

This is the most colorful one of them all.

I was attempting to make a notebook cover following By Small Means directions.  I found this about a week ago and decided this would be the craft that we did at the Crafty Gathering for June.  I don't sew... much (or well) so I wanted to see if it was possible to do a no sew version.  I picked up the fusible stuff at Walmart today and some $1 fabric.  After 2 attempts so far, I'm not having much luck.  I'm not giving up yet though.  I'm learning a lot.  Needless to say I had a lot of wasted left over fabric that I just refused to let go to waste.  It was fabric that had been fused and was thick and it had my mind going.  All I could think of was flowers.  LOL!  What can I say I've got flowers of all kinds on my mind.  Here's what I did.

I also tie dyed some napkins tonight while making cup cakes so I add that into these fabric flowers for some extra texture.

*Update * See what I am going to do with these HERE