Drinking Straws Flowers

HS Lim Drinking Straws Flowers

Well, the flowers look real, too, don’t they?
They are from plastic, too, but this time from drinking straws – just as the bird, the ring and the plastic straw lantern.
Very multifunctional, such a drinking straw ;-)

 


Links:
Drinking Straws Handicraft
The flower on the photo should be the Dahlia (I’m a city kid and don’t know about these things ;-)).

Here at unikatissima:
Plastic Bag Flowers
Bird from Plastic Straw
Drinking Straw Jewelry and Ornaments
Plastic Straw Lantern

Mokume Gane Flower

Silvana Barba Mokume Gane Flower

I love pink and orange, find polymer clay Mokume Gane amazing and like big florets: you can surely imagine how I find the instruction for pink orange polymer clay Mokume Gane florets ;-))

 


Links:
Mokume Gane Flower I (Mokume Gane Basico) (photos only)
Mokume Gane Flower II (Mokume Gane Basico) (photos only)

Here at unikatissima: Polymer Clay Mokume Gane

Wrapping and Reducing Polymer Clay Canes

PCC Wrapping and Reducing Polymer Clay Canes

I wrote before about reducing polymer clay canes, here they’re talking about how to fill flower canes with ‘background’ and reduce them without damaging the flowers.
I did it myself in the same way and it worked great, you only need some patience.


Links:
Wrapping and Reducing Polymer Clay Canes (Wrapping & Reducing Canes)

Here at unikatissima:
Reducing Polymer Clay Canes
Entries containing the word ‘flower cane’

How to Press Flowers, Leaves and Herbs

unikatissima Clematis VII

I already wrote about drying flowers in the microwave and about flower pounding, here at how to press flowers, leaves and herbs you can find general and comprehensive tips, there are some that I want to try out ;-)

 
And what to do then with the pressed flowers and leaves?
That is what I did:
unikatissima Clematis VII On the picture you see a little ‘piece of art’ that was meant originally as a card but is much to time-consuming for this: it is a Clematis petal pressed in an old phone book, embellished with self-made decorative paper and hand embroidery.

 

unikatissima Der trockene Sommer Here I’ve pressed a leek leaf in an old phone book, too, and embroidered it.

 

unikatissima Herbst I don’t know what kind of leaf this is, but I combined it with self-made decorative paper, self-made ‘papyrus’ and hand embroidery.

 


Links:
How to Press Flowers, Leaves and Herbs

Here at unikatissima:
Drying Flowers in the Microwave
Flower Pounding
Faux Papyrus

Balloon Flower Polymer Clay Cane

PCPolyzine Balloon Flower Polymer Clay Cane

Isn’t the balloon flower polymer clay cane beautiful?
It can be made so fine because you work it big and then reduce it.

And if the balloon flower isn’t for you, try some other polymer clay canes ;-)

 


Links:
Balloon Flower Polymer Clay Cane

Here at unikatissima:
Reducing Polymer Clay Canes
Entries containing the word ‘polymer clay cane’