Mother’s Day Cards – Flowers Made With Vegetables!

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Make Your Own Flower Cards Using Vegetables! blossomsandposies.com

You might be surprised by the pretty cards you can make with, of all things, vegetables! When you cut veggies such as celery, lettuce or okra in the right way, they can be used as stamps. Just pat the cut end dry, dip your vegetable stamp into paint or ink, then press it onto card stock or paper! These are perfect for Mother’s Day. You can stamp with fruit as well, but we thought we’d see how many kinds of veggies we could find that could be used in their natural form as stamps. In addition to using vegetables as-is, you […] Read more »

Daisy Mini Cupcakes

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Tutorial for decorating miniature daisy cupcakes

Abbie has used this simple technique to decorate mini cupcakes three times in the past few weeks – for a church function, a birthday party and for Easter dinner. Each time she has delighted the guests. Wait until you see how easy they are! We got the original idea from the book What’s New Cupcake (a book filled with crazy adorable ideas for cupcakes) and modified it to make our Daisy Mini Cupcakes. Daisy Mini Cupcakes Ingredients frosted mini cupcakes miniature marshmallows colored sugar skittles Directions 1. Cut marshmallows in half diagonally. Each marshmallow will make two petals. 2. Dip […] Read more »

Tissue Paper Rose Garnish Tutorial

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tissue paper rose garnish tutorial - blossomsandposies.com

A while back, as I was busy practicing the art of Doing Nothingness (a.k.a standing-around-not-being-very-productivisity), I randomly came up with the idea of making roses out of tissue paper. I toyed with the idea a little, and pretty soon I had a small, red, easy to smash, tissue paper rose. In case you hadn’t noticed, I enjoy making long, silly, incomprehensible words and sentences, that include the extensive use of punctuation marks, predominantly the subtle, yet impactful character, the comma. 😉 If you would like to learn how to make a miniscule, scarlet, readily disposable, that which is made from […] Read more »

Tea Cup Party Favor

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Abbie and I just love tea parties. And birthdays! We decided to go super fancy at Abbie’s most recent birthday and serve tea in fine china and tiny treats on silver platters. Her grandfather even dressed in a tux and pretended to be her butler! We put together this tea cup party favor for her guests. Pretty and practical, it is made from a real tea cup and a pretty flower pen (with chocolate of course… don’t forget chocolate!) We found assorted tea cups and saucers at the thrift shop, so all together each favor cost only about $1.50. These […] Read more »

Flower Pen Tutorial

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You can grow a garden of these pens in no time! Perfect to give away, adorn a wrapped gift or to add flourish to your writing. Flower Pen Tutorial Materials: artificial flower (long stem and large heads make the best flower pens) pen wire cutter floral tape scissors 1) Choose which flower in your bunch you would like to use. Slide leaves up to the base of the flower if you wish to keep them, or down to the bottom of the stem if you will be discarding them. 2) Place the pen next to the flower, so that the […] Read more »