Saturday, January 9, 2010

Wanna recycle your telephone book? Make flowers


I found these flowers on this blog but I see she now has the photo out for publication. She found the idea on this blog so I decided to look through my old telephone books and make flowers using some of those pages. These flowers are super easy to make. I used my Stampin Up flower scallop punch and punched out 5 flowers. Put them together in a pile and attach a brad in the middle of the flower. Then, crinkle each piece up (see other blog) till you get to the bottom flower. Un-crinkle (is that a word?) the flowers and attach a button in the middle. I sponged mine with a little pink ink to match the paper a bit. Isn't it cute? Hopefully, it will mail ok!
Card size 5x5
Girl stamp by Hero Arts
Paper by Bo Bunny
Recycled phone book pages for flower
Button with thread
Stampin Up flower scallop punch
Oval Scallop punch

7 comments:

  1. These are super-duper AWESOME!!! I may have to give it a try...

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  2. I have seen this done with old paper tissue sewing patterns. Your card is great

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  3. what a great a idea! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Sherri, I positively love these flowers! What a very clever idea! I know I'll be 'boring' your idea for these lovely flowers. Thanks for sharing! :)

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  5. Great flower! I love that you added in a vintage look flower with this image.

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  6. What a terrific idea. I'm going to try it right now!!

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