BHG Holiday Craft Magazine Feature

I know I teased you with this yesterday…...

so now I will show you the inside!!

I was honored to have my drop cloth flower swag included in the Better Homes and Gardens Holiday Crafts magazine 2014!

They contacted me last November to see if I would let them include my swag in their magazine for this years edition…..ummmmmm, HOLY CRAP! 

After my husband revived me, I had to read the email again. Of course I said yes and then waited. I stopped holding my breath in May when they sent me the contract but then held my breath again. I have been contacted twice before and had things fall through so I figured when I see the magazine then I'll not only share the news, but dance with glee.

Well, the magazine came in a plain white envelope with Media in large letters on the return address. It was a busy day so I only glanced quickly and almost through it out with the rest of the junk mail!!!!!

I realized it was fairly heavy so I had better take a quick lookey loo…

OK, I started crying when I pulled it out…I'm a wuss and I don't care. It felt incredible to see my name and my idea in print.

And it felt even more incredible when I showed it to my husband and he got this big grin on his face. Even after all these years together, it means the world to me that he was impressed and happy for me.

I will tell you that this issue has an incredible abundance of adorable and classy ideas for holiday decor so please go get it and get your craft on. 

Thank you again BHG for this crazy gift!!

Always being renewed,

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Sawtooth Flowers

So this is the last in the series on the Valentine's day posy flowers. We are going to make the two small flowers on the left. Both are made the same way.

You can see the original which included how to dye using cranberry soda, rolled fringed rose, and teacup rose tutorials by clicking on the name.

We are going to make a slightly different version of the rolled fringed rose. I call it the sawtooth flower. They differ only in one was made using pinking shears and the other I cut deeper grooves in to make it more petal like.

What you need:

Drop cloth scraps washed and dried and maybe dyed

Hot glue and glue gun

silver glitter glue

needle and thread

 Cut one edge with pinking shears or cut grooves like above. Now all you do is create the rolled fringe rose but instead of having a fringed top you have a saw tooth top or a more subtle pinked top. 

Yep, that's it!

Add your glitter glue to the petal tips, let dry then assemble your posies.

I used a scrap piece of cardboard and covered it in with drop cloth. Then hot glued my larger flowers in place. I made a little platform for the smaller flowers to sit on with pieces of cardboard and then hot glued them in place. They were getting lost with out the platform. I still needed to fill in a little bit of space on the left so I just added small triangles that had fringe on one side. I like that they look similar to leaves. 

Thread your ribbon through holes punched in the cardboard and hang. To make hanging easier because these flowers are a little heavy, make your holes more towards the center than the ends. 

swoon

Have you tried any of these yet? What makes you swoon?

Always being renewed,

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Teacup Rose Drop Cloth Flower Tutorial

Okay so are you ready for the next flower in this little posy? Again, get ready for a super easy but beautiful flower made of drop cloth in under 10 minutes.

Please see the whole doorknob posy put together here and

 and the rolled fringe rose here to see the first steps needed to complete this project.

What you need:

Drop cloth scraps washed and dried and maybe dyed

Hot glue and glue gun

silver glitter glue

Start by cutting a circle about 6-7" in diameter. Then starting on the outside, cut a spiral into the middle.  If you want greater uniformity, draw your spiral lines on the circle then cut. Or you can eyeball it like me and try and keep the spiral the same width all the way around.

Grab your hot glue gun and roll the middle into a cone about a half turn and glue in place.

Cut a piece of scrap drop cloth in a circle about 1.5" in diameter and put a dab of glue in the middle

Glue your spiral circle cone to the dot. Hold upright until dry. Now all you are going to do is ad some glue to the scrap circle and then keeping your spiral on its edge, glue the edge to the scrap. As with the fringe rolled rose, the tighter you roll it the smaller the rose and the looser, the bigger the rose.  I kept my gluing medium tight so it made the rose about 2.5" wide.

When you get to the end, just hot glue the end in place well.

Here it is un-embellished. At this point you can leave it plain or dress it up with some silver glitter glue. I have tried crystal glitter glue and gold glue and I think the silver complements the grey and the pink the best. But these are your flowers so use what you want!

Here they are embellished. I just ran the tip of my glitter glue tube around the edges and put three dots in the middle.

Big glitter glue dot hint: To prevent your dots from being gloppy, release all the pressure on the tube before you lift it out of the glue dot. This way your glue dot does not become a glue string and drip over where you do not want it. It's a lot like an icing bag, if you have ever done that. If not then I've lost you obviously. 

Here is a pretty close up

Check back in a few days and see how we make the two little flowers on the left. So is any body trying these? Please let me know and also let me know if you have ever done any other material flowers yourself. I'd love to know!

Always being renewed,

Please see the link party page to see where I link arms with those blissfully beautiful bloggers that host every week. So gracious they are along with these other sweet ladies!