All Paper Arts

I was going through one of my many drawers of “Stuff” today. In one of them I found some of my vintage jewelry. Before children I use to love going to estate sales and finding old funky jewelry and hats. My favorite jewelry to find at that time were flower pins. I don’t know what the attraction was but I loved them. Since having children I had passed on most of my flowered gems and pill box hats to my girls dress up box. However, this one somehow was missed. I remember wearing this on the hip of my jeans (back when I was a size 2 and didn’t mind my waistline showing that is).
Thus, my inspiration for today’s paper arts project came to me. I have a sizzix die that has two different size flowers. I haven’t used this die in a long while. It was my first to die to buy. So I started thinking what paper would have enough texture and be strong enough and still be light at the same time? DING! DING! DING! Mulberry Paper! I found several sheets of pastel mulberry paper and cut them out with my sizzix. To add just a little bit more texture and color I inked a few of the flowers. I then used foam to apply the flowers to each other. The foam helps give dimension to the pin. You can use jewelry pin backs from the jewelry making department for the back. I was in a pinch and couldn’t find mine so I used a regular safety pin and glued it down with a piece of felt.
My seven year old got to model the finished project. Sorry the digi pics are kind of yellow I had to turn of the flash or else the light pastel was washed out. My 8 year old now wants us to make them in jewelry making club next week. I can’t see why not. Although as fast as they are to make we might have to make several. I think I will hand draw some flowers to use as a template for more floral variety.
So I am interested would you like me to do a tutorial on this fast and easy project? Just in time for spring. I had an old friend get back in touch with me the other day. He said he checked out my blog and it was so very Kari. I can’t wait to go make more of these and see how much more I can Kari them up!