Paper Flowers...

I am leading our Sunday School in a year of studying the Bible from a First Century Jewish perspective. The lessons are inspired from Joe Amaral's book, Understanding Jesus. You can read more here: http://www.firstcenturyfoundations.com/understandingjesus.html Very insightful!! I am making the decorations for the Seder to be bright and full of the new life that spring brings. My inspiration came from Pinterest. The instructions are from here. All that I did differently was first cut out what seemed like a million circles using my Creative Memories Custom Cutting System. I then cut the wavy spirals and began rolling and hot gluing.

This arrangement will decorate the girls' room after it gets its makeover. The colors are perfect!

The brightness of the flowers added a lovely feeling to my home. It was a cold, snowy, dreary 3rd day of spring outside. Saskatchewan had just been hit with a major blizzard and everyone was tired of winter. It brought hope that spring was, in fact coming. I made 3 arrangements today that looked like this. I had made one other one during the week for a friend who is sick. I used darker, antique colors on theirs. Colors that they love. 

I also made another arrangement with paper flowers with a totally different look. You can find the instructions on A Blog Called Wanda. They are beautiful! So life-like! I love them!

I plan to wrap burlap around the tops of the mason jars. I just need to go digging through my boxes to find it. I love how these turned out and am excited to make more, but using different styles. After our Passover Seder, I plan to use these to decorate around my home, my health food store and in the girls' room. I also will have them ready to bring to someone if they need a bouquet of get well or encouragement flowers.