Dragonflies in December

Yes,...dragonflies... what could be more Christmasy?
:)

Well, ok, maybe dragonflies don't spell Christmas, but these larger-than-life-size paper dragonflies were made to embellish creative gifts this holiday season.

Custom-made for a friend.

Paper Confetti

These are my newest paper confetti. Each butterfly, dragonfly, flower and dot has been hand-punched from pretty paper. I mostly use double-sided, card stock or shimmer papers.



You can see the latest confetti packages in my Etsy shop here.



The idea for creating paper confetti came to me as I was planning my wedding. I think these are a lovely alternative to tossing rice (which can bloat birds' bellies), or harmful plastic throwables. Instead, these paper thingies are all bio-degradable. They can even be used for embellishing albums, cards, invites, and so on.

I re-use everything, plastic bags, cereal boxes, you name it, so the plastic bags for the confetti come from other small items that I've purchased at craft stores. I make the little paper packaging add-on myself, and sometimes even the little tags (depending on the moment of inspiration).



Anyways, if you have a party coming up and would like to go for greener confetti, check out my little shop. I post new things almost every day.

Cheers!

Dragonflies, Flowers

These are some of the flower and dragonflies combo embellishments which I made since last week. I used layers of mulberry paper flowers and pretty metal brads to create the flowers (this way they can be easily attached to any sort of paper). Also, note the inked edges...
:)

The set below has metal brads in the form of cute green (and amazingly detailed) dragonflies. And for those that like dragonfly sticker embellishments, I created ones with jewel accent bodies that hover above flowers thanks to bits of foam tape.

You can see more embellishment sets here.