HoneyPop Flower Card

On recent visit to Archiver's, I learned of a new way to use the HoneyPop paper pad.  In a demonstration, they cut a piece of the paper, expanded the honeycomb into a long piece and swirled that piece around a circular adhesive dot.  Cutting different shapes of the honeypop paper result in different styles of flowers.

Front:
Precut Folded Notecards - purple with white interior
Cardstock: white
Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots
HoneyPop Paper: Pink
Embellishment: white button
Colorbox ink - Eggplant
Glubers Adhesive Dot



Above is my very first honeypop flower and I learned that I do not have a steady hand at swirling delicate paper around a very sticky adhesive dot.  Even tho I had to trim the pitiful pieces that were sticking out, over all I thought my little flower still turned out well.

Below is my second honeypop flower.

I used a the Rainbow HoneyPop paper, a Gluber adhesive dot and a little gemstone to cover the mess that becomes the middle as the paper meets itself.
In an attempt to get the alignment a little more even, I decided to draw a swirl directly on the Gluber adhesive dot.  Basically, I created a guideline to follow and it worked out beautifully.

Button Flowers

I went to Michael's and found these small containers of different color buttons on sale.  I have seen this design before, so I wanted to try my hand at a card where buttons were used as flowers.  It will be a nice addition to the birthday gift card collection.

Front:

Standard A2 yelow card

Cardstock: light blue 

Ribbons: dark green, green, light green

buttons: white, pink, purple

Inside:

blank

The button flowers were easy enough and nesting some of the button inside each other gave it an added touch (my little boy loved helping glue the buttons together), but the real special thing is the use of the ribbon as the grass.  Each longer horizontal piece was taped to the back of the sky blue mat but I each had at least 1 twist and sometimes 2 twists to create a raised messy look. Then several short pieces of ribbon were knotted along longer ones to again add dimension and texture.  These ribbons of course hid the ribbon ends that served as the stems to the flowers.  The twists, knots and different colors work well to prevent constantly checking on if the ribbon was straight and even.  It was "out of my norm" card design, but a lovely end result.