Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Stop & Smell The Roses....

Today I have a new inspirational post at DCRU and I wanted to share the rest of the details of my project. My post at DCRU is a tutorial on making these beautiful flowers:



They are so fun and easy to make. All you need is ribbon, felt, and a hot glue gun. I'm sure most of you already have everything needed! Visit DCRU to see the details.

Now for my project I made with these flowers. I decided to make a wall hanging.

First of all I took a cheap chalkboard that I found at an antique store and decided to paint. I painted the edges of my chalkboard with sage green paint then let it dry. I then painted over the green with my pink Tim Holtz crackle paint. When the paint crackled it let the green show thru and gave it a very neat distressed look.



I then took a small hanger that I got from Emmas Paperie and glued it to the top of the chalkboard. Then I wrapped 2 different shades of tulle around the chalkboard. I added a Melissa Frances vintage embellishment, Prima bling & Fabric Letters. I added a Jenni Bowlin butterfly and added my flowers. I just layered them on top of eachother and made a few paper leaves and stuck around them. Easy Peasy!



And here is a close-up:



Enjoy!!!

10 comments:

Mary said...

Very cute!!

Jessica Diedrich said...

This is worthy of a magazine-like, the COVER of one! WOW AMBER! BEAUTIFUL!

Tammie said...

AMBER....OH MY WORD....these are gorgeous!!!!! I want to make these flowers! Beautiful.

Sheri Gilson said...

Gorgeous project!! Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial with us!!

LollyChops said...

Of course I adore these Amber! I cannot wait to go see your tutorial on how to make them!!!!!!!!!!

Stunning!

Katherine Dunn/Apifera Farm said...

What a refreshing blog with happy, kind things...Thanks so much for writing me with a pic of your ADORABLE equines....I loved it!

Leigh Ann Baird said...

Good gravy! This is wonderful!

Unknown said...

WOW...Amber...it's much prettier than your description. I believe I could make these little flowers. They are beautiful and the tulle just makes it looks so fancy!!!

Unknown said...

Gorgeous Amber! LOVE those flowers!

(-: Heidi

Annette said...

Absolutely beautiful! I'll have to check out the tutorial on the flowers, I love them!! Love your wall hanging, it's gorgeous! Hugs, Annette

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