Making Blom!

I made a bunch of Jurianne Matters lovely BLOM for a friend the other day and Ffion took some photos of the process so if you're curious here's how you do it....

There are three sheets of coloured paper flowers in a pack.

First you have to press out all the flowers.

There is a generous reel of wire in the pack too so cut this up to make your stems...roughly 30cm each. Use wire cutters if you don't want to ruin your scissors!

Then thread each flower onto the end of a stem. There are little slits in each flower to do this.

You may want to thread some leaves further down each stem too. That looks pretty.

When they are all threaded on they are ready for a vase or perhaps to give someone in a bunch.



There is even a little gift tag on each page of flowers for a note.

Perfectly lovely! You can buy them here at Radiance.

Turn your old lightbulbs into hanging vases

This is a brilliant idea! I never like throwing away my used up light bulbs. This is a tutorial by Veronica Peterson that i found on Care2 via Craftershock and if you'd like to have a go visit their blogs for a full tutorial.