Remember when you were a little girl in school and you made a string of paper dolls? Well.....I think I've been out of school too long, and I'm far from being a little girl....As you can see from the picture of the flip flops they didn't come out as a string of them as planned. After folding up the brown wrapping paper and cutting them out I got pairs instead of a string.
After playing around (3 times) I figured out how to cut the flops to have them come out in a string. I felt so silly not knowing how to do this right away. LOL
I found these cute little paper mache flip flop boxes at my favorite local craft store. Thought they would make a cute little memory box. I toyed with the idea of painting the flop but then decided to keep it natural and only accent it with a flower on the top.
I made two different color flowers, but I thought the blue one would look better as it matched the strap on the flop. Although the tangerine tango flower looks more tropical to me.
I only used the 5 petal punch and Boho punch to make the flower. I used two of the Boho flowers with pink cardstock for the center of the flower. The next two layers of the flower where made with the 5 petal punch. After they were punched from Marina Mist I took each petal and inserted it into a 1/2 circle punch to round the edges.
Each layer of the flower was sponged and molded them a bit with my fingers to curve the petals up. The leaf of the flower was done with Wild Wasabi cardstock that was embossed with a embossing folder just to give it a little more texture. Brad through all the layers held the flower together.
Still raining in Ohio. Although Skip caught a bit of a break yesterday morning and we mowed the grass. I say we, but he did the mowing. I went along ahead of him and picked up all the twigs and branches that littered the ground from the wind storm we had the night before.
Stamping Trails
Karen
