Paper Posies

I have been listening to documentaries and minimalist organization inspiration videos on the internet. Yep, I am filling my ears with knowledge on a variety of subjects (because we are to never stop learning!) and motivation (through other people with a whole lot of great ideas and even more energy levels!) as I sort through in effort of downsizing my craft supplies that I will never live long enough to use. Anyone planning to live 110 years like me to get everything done? On the list: letting my craft containers breath a little more with more empty space, which involves weeding out my one of a kind Paper Posie creations. 

 I admit I have also done some watching (or listening mostly)  of favorite Twilight Zone episodes and other things that make you fall down the rabbit hole of TV nostalgia on the Nflix arena.

The cheery flowers are in the Etsy shop (click over in the side margin where you see them to get to the listings). I have so many to group into fun lots and then photograph their unique character close up, and write listings so that they can go to nice new lovely owners! Each flower reveals its one of a kind traits. They bloom into my hands and no two repeat exactly, just like when nature blooms the color and shape into a garden.

Paper Posies for Springtime

This is a project I completed with some of the hand made, one of a kind, Paper Posies I made. It is a canvas covered, magnet backed photo frame. I laid out and glued down a free form pattern of randomly squiggled lines of vintage cotton rick-rack and clustered a grouping of blue shades of Paper Posie flowers in the bottom corner and flowing outward. A very fun project.

Here I took a sweet little tossed aside vintage oil painting and rescued it out of a very ugly frame by adding twisty wire and a vintage ribbon tied in a bow. Paper Posies were added to the painted flowers to give it a 3-D effect. You could do this with just about any picture, painting or card for a bit of "pop"!

This was a past project that I sold but I have also done this same thing to keep for myself. It is fun to glue Paper Posies onto vintage (or new) rick-rack. It can be used as a garland (you could even glue the Posies back to back so they show no matter how the garland twists!) or to attach onto a lamp shade for trim (you don't even have to glue it on permanently--just wrap it around and glue the ends together... if you are like me and you like to change things often!) or to dress up a boring or thrifted/painted up photo frame or to drape over the top of a mirror in a powder room or maybe over a little girl's vanity. It would also be great to add to a wreath! I'm sure there are oodles of other ideas if you let you imagination run free.

I used some to make a cute little last minute tag for a gift and also a birthday card that you can see and read about HERE.

You can see some projects done by my friends using my Paper Posies HERE on an ATC and HERE on a faux cupcake, of all things. Really, you have to see how cute!!

I once had an order for 100 custom made Paper Posies flowers for a shop owner to use in her glass display cases as props. That was hard work, but fun!! I took them "on the road" as a work in progress while my car was getting "road worthy"...a very funny story indeed. You can see them HERE, and WOW!! they look pretty cool photographed all in a big group!!

The below photo shows examples of my bouquets of one of a kind Paper Posies.

I hope I have provided some inspiration. These flowers work great for crafting of all sorts- altered art, collage, ATCs, card making, scrapbooking, etc...
As well as for decorating- add them to lampshades, photo frames, mirrors, window shade hems, baskets...the possibilities are only limited by your imagination!!

creating...

I needed to make a gift tag for my niece for her baby shower

and so I gathered some supplies...

and ended up with this...

(The baby image is on one of the collage sheets available in my Etsy shop, my handmade quilled paper posies are available there too)

My dear hubby gave me a great compliment and said,"I don't know how you come up with these things (tags/cards) so quickly!"

This is on the back of the baby shower tag I made.
It is a vintage flash card. Perfect, don't you think?



Then I made a card for a birthday...

I used more of my paper posies. I printed and cut out one of my colored pencil art birds and attached it with some foam tape to give it some dimension.

(The bird is included on one of the collage sheets available in my Etsy shop)

Lastly, I made small tags to attach to some little giftie bags I gave her...

The Canary is another one of my colored pencil art endeavors.

I am considering offering prints of it in my shop as well. What do you think?

Paper posie surprise

I gave my friend, Sharon, some of my Paper Posies. She was so creative and surprised me with this...

She used my handmade brightly colored posies and embellished them with a spray glitter (which I love! *my brain gears are turning*) and then made them into this!!

 Maybe you could make some posie bouquets, I know where you can find some posies!

 I will continue to supply the Paper Posies.  I am wrapping my brain around the idea of glittering some of my posies!! After all, you can't go too wrong with glitter...on just about anything!

Thank you Sharon, for my posie creation. I smile each time I look at it!!

Paper Posies have bloomed

Hand made by me. Each one unique.