Pretty Paper Flowers

Happy Thursday!!  Last week I blogged about this oh-so-lovely rainbow collage...

...and may have mentioned a little upcoming tutorial for the pretty paper flowers.  Well here is that little tute!  To make these pretty, fluffy, mini-flowers you will need a few VERY simple ingredients:

• Few sheets of paper towels (and some newspaper or water-proof surface)
• Watercolors (stolen borrowed from your son's stash)
• Water
• Small Round Object (ie: lid from a Diet Pepsi)
• Thread
• Seed Beads

On a little side-note, I love bullet lists.  They're so clean and organized, which is the polar opposite of my house... Okay then, we will now return to our regularly scheduled tute:

Step 1 - Spread out the sheets of paper towels (obviously white ones work the best) on your newspaper or other water-proof surface

Step 2 - Let loose and watercolor all over the paper towels.  I liked the hues that resulted from brushing colors on with a damp brush and then using a pastry brush (I gotta use what I got) to really saturate the towel with water.

Step 3 - Let em dry really well (I left them for a few days purely because I was busy with other things, but I'm thinking that a good 24 hours should do it)

Step 4 - Use your round object to trace circles onto the now lovely colored paper towels

Step 5 - Cut out all those little circles (I used 3 circles for each flower)

Step 6 - Seperate the layers of the paper towel

Step 7 - Stack up your flower circles (6 layers) and sew 3-5 seed beads to the middle of the flower (securing all the layers together)

Step 8 - Scrunch and scrunch and scrunch the little layers to fluff them up

Just like the collage itself, the flower assembly is a nice meditative task (which is a VERY welcome activity during naptime!)  They're a little time consuming (for being so tiny), but I think they're worth it :)