Paper Flowers

One more giant paper flower.........

One of the librarians where I work asked for a flower for her desk.  VOILA!  I had just a small amount of paper leftover to make a "desktop" paper flower.  I had to dig into the trash can to get the green paper.  I added a little scrapbook paper around the base of the soup can and some Easter grass to hide my "mistakes" when I accidentally got  plaster of paris on the green stem.  My motto is "you can always fix a mistake".   It turned out to be about 18" tall.....perfect for the top of a desk.  

GIANT PAPER FLOWERS

Ready to go to the library...............

Here you can see how large the daffodil is on my kitchen counter.  I anchored it with a rubberband between the cabinets so it would dry perpendicular when I added the plaster of paris to the can.

Here are the two poppies (I use that term loosely).  I decided to use a larger can for their base to make sure that they did not tip over.  We don't want anything falling onto the patrons in the library.

I mixed the plaster in the can, set the "stem" in the can and held the flower straight.  The plaster dries in about 30 minutes.  I anchored it with a rubber band to hold it in place for that time.

You can see how I attached the back of the flower to the cardboard wrapping roll.  I used a piece of foam core board and hot glued it.