MPTS VIP Class

MPTS VIP Class

Learn how to develop an understanding of color and design elements that work well together. Each week we will be focusing on a different design and technique. This class will help enhance your knowledge of the art of paper flowers. People who are wanting to learn more than just simple flowers, this is the class for you! 

I will show you techniques that will help you create your own fantastic paper flowers. 

Paper might be flat but there is a way to transform it into something beautiful. 

This is a 3 week course.

Student participation is required.
Serious students only!


Here is your chance to find out how I do it, why I do it 
and how far we can take the limits of paper!

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Paper Flower Class for November

Paper Flower Holiday Packaging and Decor

This is my favorite time of year! I'm so excited about this class. I love decorating my packages for the holidays using paper flowers. It's such a treat to get a gift that looks too good to open. I love decorating around my tree with the packages too.

Everyone knows that I love creating paper flowers and in this class I want to share my passion for them with you. I will teach you several flower designs using punches, SVGs and PDF Templates. We will use these flowers on our packages and other decor items in the class. I also love adding filler items to my flowers to make beautiful arrangements and decorations. I will show you how to make some filler items and how we can incorporate items from the store to make wonderful holiday arrangements.

We will create small to X-large flowers in this class.

We will push our limits when it comes to standard flower making.

Want to make beautiful flowers?

Then this is the class for you!

 

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Flower Home Decor Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Flower Home Decor Hop. We hope you will leave here super inspired today! If you just came from (Melissa Pinter) then you are on track. If you just stumbled upon my blog you may want to start at the beginning so you don't miss any of the gorgeous projects http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com .

We have 3 amazing sponsors today...

First up is Anna Fearer of More Paper Than Shoes she is offering a $20 gift certificate to her Etsy store here http://www.etsy.com/shop/morepaperthanshoes also please stop by her FB fan page and LIKE https://www.facebook.com/morepaperthanshoes

Next up is Creative Chaos that is offering a set of mixed holiday flowers you can stop by the Etsy store here www.etsy.com/shop/shannleffew2 and please stop by the FB fanpage and like here www.facebook.com/creativechaos

and last but not least is Scrapbook Stamp Society giving away 3 digi stamps

http://www.scrapbookstampsociety.com

Here is my project I created for this fab blog hop:

A lovely handmade paper flower wreath. Love working with purple.

I used several different style of cut files and punches to create these wonderful flowers. I have used some svg files that I have created along with some that Kristy Ashe from Scraptastical Kreations has created too. I have also used EK Success and Mcgill punches as well!

I created this project using a wreath I found at A.C. Moore's and the berries are from Michaels. The feather was from the Ashland collection last year when they had their Halloween line out. Love those feathers.

You can find some of these wonderful flowers in my Etsy shop if you wanted to create your wreath using some of my flowers. I can customize these in any color you would like.

Don't forget to check out my tutorial on how to make the filler flowers I created for this wreath. See the video below:

Thanks for stopping by my blog :) leave a comment and show some love!

I hope you enjoyed the projects so far but there is more!

Your next stop on this hop is: (http://scrappingjudy.blogspot.com/)

Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way

Shannon - http://shannonleffew.blogspot.com/

Ashley - http://thebloghopprincess.blogspot.com

Maria - http://JoyfulStamper.blogspot.com

Amanda - http://a-prata-design.blogspot.com/

Melissa Pinter-http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com

Anna Fearer - http://www.annafearer.blogspot.com

Judy Dykes - http://scrappingjudy.blogspot.com/

Lisa Woodward ~ http://mycraftyspaces.blogspot.com

Picture Frames with Handmade Paper Flowers

I love making my handmade roses and there are so many things you can put them on too! I decided to think off of the paper and try putting some on a picture frame. I really think these turned out so pretty! The black frame measures 9" x 7" and will hold a 4" x 6" picture in the middle. The white frame hangs from a ribbon and holds a 3.5" x 3.5" picture in the middle. The frame size is 7" x 7". Stop by my shop today and check these out!

New Flower Spray Small and Meduim - Southern Pink

I had cut of a lot of pink paper and thought...what in the world am I going to do with these petals??? Well, I started to put these petals together and I had enough to make a meduim size one and a smaller one. The color reminded me for some odd reason of a southern bell..so I decided to name is southern pink. I have a few more I will be posting through out the week as I finish them. Keep checking back in my Etsy shop to see more.

MPTS Creative Team

I want to thank everyone who emailed me about being on this team. It took many hours and a lot of cups of coffee to pick out this team. There is so much talent out there it was very hard to narrow it down to a small group. I really appreciate all the kind compliments everyone gave me about my work. It was such a joy to look through all the blogs and see the wonderful work that is out there! Every one's creations that they sent in were awesome. I can't thank you enough for taking the time to apply to this team.

Now lets welcome these wonderful ladies to the creative team:

Mary Hamer

Tiffany Morgan

Marie Ramirez

Marivic Clifton

Danielle Mack

Sandi Smith

You will be able to view their projects on the MPTS blog starting in March!



Good morning snowy monday....

I woke up to small little flakes falling from the sky this morning. It was so much better to see the snow than the rain we had all day long on Sunday. It has now been snowing a lot harder and the snow flakes are huge. I had gotten me into the spirit of things. Some things I was working on over the weekend are: new flowers, making homemade glimmer mist, finishing up layouts for family, playing scrabble. :)

I as making some new flowers that have stems on them so that people can use them in other ways. These flowers you can place in a vase, stick in foam, make a bouquet, wrap on pencils and so on....
I finally have made homemade glimmer mist. Thank goodness. I was going through a lot of the glimmer mist and that adds up after awhile. I actually like mine much better because I can control the color and shimmer I want in my mist.
I have been working on this Scrapbook for a family member and it is really coming out very pretty! I can't wait until she sees it! I'm super excited and I get to play around with a lot of my new flowers on these layouts too!
The family and I played Scrabbled this weekend. It was so much fun laughing about the words we tried so hard to use! It was very nice killing Darin (my honey) in a game of Scrabble too :)

Handmade Wooden Christmas Mittens

These mittens are so cute! These are OOAK and can not be purchased in the stores. I made some last year and they were a big hit! This year I can't seem to keep them in my Etsy store and my email is full of customers wondering when I will be listing more. I was sick last week and over the weekend. It was not fun at all! I couldn't stand not getting in my craft room and creating some more of these. I hope to have more in the middle of the week in my store. Be sure to keep checking back.

What my floor looks like today :)

Well, I took down from the attic 1 of 4 tubs of Christmas flower picks. I cut the picks apart to use the leaves and berries in my handmade paper flower sprays and on layouts. I'm almost finished with this tub! Wish me luck, LOL, I think I'm going to need a lot more baggies :)

Ellie's tag for her tag album

Ellie asked me to include a couple of tags in her order that she can use in her tag album. She has been very patient with this large order. I just sent her first package out last week and she loved it. I can't wait for her to get this package. I haven't finished the back yet but will try to have it done by tonight. It makes me want to start working on some mini albums for Christmas to give to family :)

Christmas Mini Sprays

It feels as though I have not created much lately :( So I had some free time today and thought I would share with you all my new Christmas flower sprays that I will be selling soon. I hope to get some more time this weekend to add to my collection! All the flowers and most of the leaves on the sprays have been hand embossed and inked. These flowers and sprays are my favorite to create!

Handmade Paper Flower Wreath

I have to say I have been pretty busy lately. I have had so much on my plate that projects that I had made weeks ago never got their chance to shine..LOL. I made this wreath using my handmade flowers and leaves. I have made the paper flower sprays but want to test them out on some wreaths too. This wreath measures 6 inches. Every flower and leaf on this wreath has been handmade by me. Every petal and leaf has been hand embossed and inked. I love creating this flowers and I can't wait to see where I take them next. I'm working on some hair combs for weddings. I'm not sure when I will have them finished but when I do , I will post them here for everyone to see! This wreath will being going into my etsy shop soon. I hope to have it listed by the weekend.

My flowers I made for CK Convention

So this was suppose to be a hair piece...well that's how I sketched out this project! I had every intention to put it in my hair but when I woke up the morning of the convention I was very tired and did not crawl out of bed until 8:30am. It didn't leave me much time to find the heavy duty hair clip I needed for this. So I just used the stick pin I made for it to stick it to my shirt. I'm glad that it worked out that way because I got so many compliments! I handed a lot of business cards out..YAY! This was my first time burning the fabric. I do have to say I did catch one of the fabric pieces on fire..LMBO! When everything was being put together for this piece I really liked how the fabric turned out. I'm so excited to make more. I might market them to the brides out there for weddings.....hmm.....ideas, ideas, ideas!! Here is my video of it before I went to convention.

MPTS August DT Challenge

Will you take a walk with me in Paris? Come by our challenge blog, More Paper Than Shoes and take the challenge to walk through Paris and create something beautiful! I did..and I loved every minute of it. I really wasn't sure what this was going to look like when I started it. When I was creating the tag I never had a vision of how I wanted it to look. I just kind of let my imagination take over and let me hands create! This tag is what I created. I love vintage and everything about it! This challenge allowed me to day dream of a place where I saw a couple holding hands and looking at all the vintage shops along the cobblestone road. They were looking for that special place to remember and to hold on to what they felt when they were there. As they look back onto that memory they will think to themselves "we'll always have Paris"!

MPTS Forum

I am proud to announce that More Paper Than Shoes will be opening their forum up on July 1st. I was working on a few things on the forum tonight. I'm so excited and I can't wait to share it with everyone! We will be announcing our new design team, website and forum on July 1st. I will post links to them on my blog after the announcement!