NSD Challenge 4- Mother's Day Brunch and Paper Flower Tutorial

Wow, I have been neglecting my blog!  I am hoping to have more time for my crafts now!  I miss them and all my blogger friends! :)  Robyn at My Pink Stamper has given some challenges to make this weekend even more fun.  Challenge 4 is to create a Mother's Day themed project...

Today I hosted a Mother's Day brunch for my mother and my Aunt.  We are very close with my Aunt and Uncle and it was important to me to recognize that special relationship.

I created napkin rings with Coredinations Whitewash collection.  (I only had one page of each color and nobody local had any more so I had to make 2 colors.)  I also created place cards using tinfoil and my new Big Kick!!!

Under the photos I put a brief tutorial on how I made the paper flower.  I am beginning to think everyone else in the world knows how to do them and I was alone in not know though!

How to create paper flowers.
1. Cut a 5" x 5" square of cardstock.
2. Cut that into a circle, mine wasn't a circle at all I am cutting challenged but my shape worked :)
3.  Cut around the circle in a spiral.  I made my edges raggedy and rounded to give the flower a more flowery look in the end.

 4.  Start rolling the flower.  I rolled mine as tight as I could.  I let it loosen up a bit after I had it all wrapped.

5. At the end of the spiral I had left a small circle in the center.  I glued the flower to that using a ton of tacky glue.  I held it in place for a bit and it stayed nicely.

I was actually pretty excited by how well these held up and they are going to work again in the future because they were quite durable!!!  I used a glue dot and attached them to ribbon to make napkin rings. 

For some other challenges I am linking up to:
For Fun Challenges and Patti Lynn Creations want to see flowers!
Tuesday Throwdown, More Than Favors and Paper Cutz Challenge are to see Mother's Day projects!