Washing Hands

I think that every mother of a just two-year-old has spent mucho tiempo in the bathroom watching her little sweetie wash hands. Lyssie spent months washing her hands. She was the cleanest little girl on the block, I tell you. But, like all phases, this one ended before I could even blink. I'm so glad that I snapped these pics of her with her joyous hand-washing face.


My journaling.


A close-up of my flower. For some reason this picture turned out quite overexposed. I really like how it highlights the flower though.


A week or so ago, Erin asked me to do a little tutorial on my dimensional flowers. I actually learned how to do from Lucy Edson and Tricia Peever. So they aren't much of a secret and I most certainly cannot claim them as my own. However, I am more than happy to share the knowledge.

This is what you need to do.

1. Cut circles out of pattern paper. You can punch them or freehand them. I usually freehand them because I'm too lazy to get out my circle cutters. Your largest circle will be on the bottom so you can gauge how big your flower will be by that. The more circles you cut, the fuller your flower will be. For the above flower, I cut 6 circles in 3 different sizes.

2. With your scissors, working from the outside of the circle to the center, make snips. These will be your petals. You can make your cuts close together or far apart. It just depends on what kind-of flower you want. When I make my snips, I don't remove anything from the circle, I just make little cuts.

3. Spray your snipped circles with mist or water and scrunch them up individually to make them look like flowers. once they have dried, place the biggest circles on the bottom and the smallest on the top. You can hold it all together with a brad or you can just glue each layer on separately and glue beads in the center. It is all up to you!

I hope that this mini tutorial makes sense. If you need clarification, please let me know. I'd love to see your beautiful flower creations so make sure you leave me a link when you upload your projects!

Happy Creating!

xoxo
Bethany