Green Orange Paper Roses in Re-Purposed Packaging

Give a plastic egg packaging a second life by letting it house pretty paper flowers.

In this case: half-a-dozen green and orange paper roses.

Use them to cheer up a small vase, to adorn gift boxes, as bookmarks, as napkin rings or anything else you can think of. The package also makes a charming gift in itself.

See my pink paper roses in an egg box, too.

Paper Flowers, Wall Flowers, Gift Toppers

New paper flowers with buttons made from designer prints in vintage themes.

Great as wall flowers, gift toppers, wedding favors...

Paper Roses in Egg Packaging

I've been hogging plastic egg packaging for a few weeks now and this weekend I've decided to use it for storing pretty paper roses.

I made these from pretty pink paper with added wires and paper leaves. They are about 2" in diameter - perfect for decorating something small, like a vase, or a gift box. Or as wedding favors.

I also use them as bookmarks :)

The packaging used to hold organic free range eggs coming from a local farm and I don't think I'll switch to other eggs any time soon. The only thing I didn't like about my eggs was the plastic packaging, but now, after finding a second use for it, I think I like them even more :)

Purple Butterfly

This is one of my new purple butterflies.
It's made from purple card stock, white ink, white gel pen, and crystal jewel accents.



Happy Weekend!

3 Deep Purple + Green Flowers

Last night I played with my pretty double-sided paper and a new batch of cat-eye inking pads, and these 3 flowers came out as the result.

You can see that the deep purple leaves are handmade too. I used my lovely new gel pen in gold (from Paper Source) to draw the lines. They glitter in the sun - and stand out in such an awesome way against the dark purple.



I also had pretty buttons laying around, so each flower has 2 layered buttons (purple and lilac) for its center.

More Handmade Paper Flowers

These are some of the new paper flowers I've created.

Each flower is constructed from nice paper (K&Company, and Basil Basics). Several layers of petals that have been cut and formed by hand are glued together to form the peony-like shape. I then add the final touch - a simple pearlescent bead for the center, or several tiny handmade paper flowers.
Some of the new flowers have leaves that have been cut out of shimmering paper (I plan to add leaves to all of my gift toppers).

The whole process of making a single flower is a bit time-consuming (what with all the tracing, cutting, folding, and so on), but holding the actual results in my palm is so rewarding.

Nothing like making something fabulous out of paper on a rainy afternoon...









These flowers can be used, not only as gift box embellishments, but also as wedding decorations, as party favors, for constructing flower spheres, or simply as a single-flower-vase to cheer up a dull corner...

In any case, they look charming, don't they?

Wedding Favors

Instead of sugary treats, my husband and I decided to give something more romantic to our guests: a handmade wedding favor that would say something about us as a couple.

Also, we wanted to tie the favors to the general color palette for the wedding: red, white and aqua blue, and to the handmade quality of all of our decorations. So, I spent a good portion of the year cutting and folding favor boxes, favors tags (each tag was cut and decorated by hand - yes, even those tiny flowers on the tags were cut and glued one by one), making paper flowers and paper butterflies to decorate the boxes, and so on...



It seems like a lot of work (and it was), but it was absolutely fun to do it, a great joy :)



Inside each box was a scented rose candle for our guests to light on a special evening. The floating rose candles also came in red, white and light-blue.