First off, HUGE thanks to JaniceA on the Cricut Circle mb for sharing her roses and reminding me about these!! To create my version, I used the 5-petal flower on the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge, cut at 3.5 inches on my Imagine machine. Once all the petals were cut, I inked the edges with Distress Ink in Barn Door, Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Rusty Hinge. Now, I live in a little town an hour from the nearest craft store of any kind and I had a dilemma once the flowers were done and how to attach stems. Lightbulb moment! Went to the little Dollar Tree store here in town where they sell bouquets of silk roses for $1. Purchased a couple of those along with some silk baby's breath. Pulled the silk roses off the stems. Removed the green plastic piece from the bottom of their silk roses and glued them to the bottom of my paper roses, then stuck the stem through that and the bottom of the rose and my roses, stems and leaves were in place. So fast and easy to fnish them this way instead of figuring out how to wrap skewers for stems plus cut paper leaves then shape and ink them. What do you think of my paper bouquet???
Hugs!
