An eternal floral wreath - pretty in Prima and vintage

If you follow my blog, you know by now that I love flowers - in scrapbooking and in painting so I have purchased quite a few Prima and vintage flowers over the years - I have used a lot but then I end up with ones not yet used or sometimes I demolish a layout that isn't quite up to my standards and I save the bits and pieces. I used to keep all of these miscellaneous flowers in a box but then I thought why not put them on display and enjoy them every day.

So I cut some corkboard that I had purchased at a thrift store into a wreath shape and began to pin(with pearl headed pins) the flowers on in a color wheel formation.

I love it and hope that you do too!

thanks for stopping by,

Chris

Ooh la la again - the Lady in Red (and Black)

Just playing with colors and paints

She is a bit mysterious,

The Lady in Red and Black
 Chris

Ooh la la!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Prima Style

 

I created a little shadow box using the Prima Back Stage papers (formerly Moulin Rouge), flowers, and laces. I glued one of the papers into the box (found in my craft closet) and added lace to the dresses, crumpled tissue paper to adorn the dancers' hats, and a funky chandelier found a while back at the dollar store. I added a vintage crystal cuff link to the chandelier.

I cut out a dancer from another paper and added trim for a necklace, crumpled tissue paper for her bodice, and cut apart a Prima flower to get the small flower at her breast.

I gave her a skirt of a silk scrap and mounted her inside the box

and added lace to the background and to the outside of the box

I finished with more Prima flowers, some vintage velvet flowrs, some Prima bling, and a tassel.

What a fun, totally frivolous project!
Chris

Passionate about purple

to paraphrase a classic poem,

When I am an old woman, I shall paint purple

and mauve and violet rose

and a few greens

thanks for stopping by,

Chris