Paper Flower Crowns

It's been raining here. A lot. We've gone to the library, done our target and Costco runs, built forts, had dance parties, and read every book we own at least three times. But on about my fourth reading of "George and Martha: Round and Round", I decided I'd had enough. With Lukas down for a nap and Cora plopped in front of the TV.... I got my craft on.

I had been wanting to make paper flowers for a while, and a rainy day seemed the perfect reason. I loosely followed these tutorials from Craftberry Bush: here and here.

Cora's crown was really easy, I cut party streamers into petal shapes and glued them around a florist's wire stem. Voila.

My crown was a little more time intensive. I cut the petals from gift tissue and then dyed them using water and food coloring. Not more difficult, per say, they just took longer because of drying time. These gift tissue flowers were really pretty and delicate. It was a fun project!