Wreath with peacock colored foamiran flowers

Making foamiran flowers is very addictive. I had just finished my bell cups project and was already planning a new project. I wanted to make something in peacock colors because these colors are so beautiful together. A wreath is what I came up with. It's a small wreath, about 15 cm and made from moss.

I started with making the poinsettias. For this I used the dies, stamens and foamiran from 14 craft bar. I used 3 shades of blue foamiran.

Other flowers are made of green foamiran and the turquoise ones are colored with soft pastels.

I added feathers, leaves and little Christmas baubles (Hema shop)  to fill in the empty spots.
On the branches I glued beautiful metalized micro beads.

The wreath turned out very nice and I can't wait to put it up in a few weeks for Christmas time.

I hope you like it and are inspired by it. Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Henriette.

Cupcake inspiration challenge

Inspired by stamping  is sponsoring the Cupcake Inspiration challenge and these are the cupcakes to inspire you to make a project with the suggested theme or colors.

My inspiration was the wonderful color combination teal, orange and white. I've made this card.

I used a stencil and white pigment inkt on the teal diamant shaped piece and I made the little flowers myself  using foamiran.

I used a white sheet of foamiran and with chalks and a baby whipe I colored the die cut flowers teal and orange.

The sentiment stamp is from the inspired by stamping cherry blossom stamp set. The label dies are also from Inspired by stamping.

For the finishing touch I've added some teal colored pearls and sequins.

For more information on the challenge and for entering the challenge please visit the cupcake inspirations blog.

Happy crafting and thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Henriette.

Foamiran chrysanthemum

I've made another foamiran flower and this time it's a chrysanthemum or dahlia kind of flower.

I watched a (Russian) video tutorial on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkoBGDAZe1I to learn how to make this kind of flower and there are also some templates links.

First I cut out all the leaves and colored them with pink oil pastels.
For a full flower you do have to cut out about 9 to 12 pieces per leave. I cut a few less and the flower in the video is more full then mine is.

First leaves are on

Next leaves

Finished flower

Thanks for visiting my blog. Have a wonderful day.

Hugs, Henriette.

More Foamiran flowers

I've been making some more foamiran flowers, this time cute little jasmine flowers and used them on a clean and simple card.

The sentiment stamp is from the new So Suzy Stamps  release and perfect for this CAS card.

I would like to enter this card in these challenges:

simon says stamp: showers and/or flowers
the flower challenge: sketch 7




Thanks for stopping by!  Have a nice day.

Hugs, Henriette.

Foamiran Flowers

I first came across foamiran flowers just a few weeks ago. How is it that I did not know about this before?
I purchased some foam sheets from the UK (too bad I couldn't find them here in the Netherlands).

I watched some great tutorials on you tube and made my first flowers.

and then some more

and then some different ones

and today these cuties

They look so cute and aren't at all difficult to make.

I will be making more flowers in the future and use them on my cards and other projects.

Update 19 april 2017:

I've made this big flowers. I did cut all leaves by hand. The flower is about 11 cm in diameter.

and is one of my favorite flowers; a peony.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Henriette.