Flowers...

I do have several photographs that I desperately want to scrapbook, but my mojo is somewhat deflated right now... so, instead, I decided to use up the last few scraps of paper I had put by to make some paper flowers. I only had a few bits of paper left over... but enough to make 5 flowers in all...

I always spray the 'raw' petals with a mixture of water and gum arabic (usually found in the watercolour/acrylic painting section of your local hobby/craft shop). After drying them a little, I manipulate or scrunch the petals, and then heat set them with my heat gun. The added gum makes the petals harden a little bit, and the finished flowers keep their shape beautifully.

The blue ones I spritzed with some cosmic shimmer, and the reverse of the red ones are daubed with a water and re-inker mix (tattered rose).