Giving Dimension to Handmade Paper Embellishments
I have been eagerly counting the days until spring arrived and it finally did yesterday. Unfortunately, we still have some snow in our forecast the next few days, but I've decided to welcome spring anyways by creating some beautiful tulips from handmade paper. These flowers can be used for window decorations or for magnets to brighten up your office space and bring a little touch of the season indoors. I wanted the paper to be a really pale pastel color so I decided to mix things a little differently than I normally do. I first placed 2 pieces of Tissue Tints into the blender with 2 cups of water and blended it on high speed. See how rich the color is after it being blended? I love it, but it was too bright for what I had in mind so I used 8 strips of leftover white cardstock instead of colored cardstock to create the paper which gave me just the right hue for that. I created 3 sheets o...