Happy Day, my crafty friends! Don’t you just love some flowers in your window? They’re so cute and colorful!
Let’s make a Miniature window just for some flowers to enjoy!
Follow along here~
First step, as always, is to gather our materials!
We’ll be using chipboard, acetate, and a variety of papers! And, of course, a bunch of flowers!
Everything you’ll need will be in the kit you picked up, but you’re of course welcome to add your own trinkets!
Let’s build our window frame! You’ll find 5 strips of chipboard, three larger panels, and a clear bit of acetate!
Build your window like a ribcage- spine first and then the ribs! The overlap of the strips will help us attach it to the bigger panels! Glue these down to the paper and use double sided tape on the acetate!
When you fold it up, use hot glue to attach it to the window sill! Now we can start decorating!
Let’s make some leaves!
I like to use the dark green paper for the floppy tendril plant, especially when the gold stickers are attached! Just cut the paper into strips and drape them over a corner! You could play with silly scissors to make fun shapes!
For the fluffy leafy plant, there will be a light green paper with leaf shapes traced onto it! You can make your own shapes if you’d like, or trim out these! Give them a fold or a line down the center for those cool leafy veins!
Flower Time!!
Two mini vials, a collection of flowers, and little glass beads are in your kit! The glass beads work perfectly to fill the vial with ‘water’ for a rose or two to live in. You could even turn the cork into a little plant pot!
A bit of moss is a great layer for the roses to grow on, try making a bed of moss to glue your roses into!
There are also two treasures in your kit! One blue imagination stone and a crystal clear diamond! You can add these anywhere you please, a fun way to arrange them is to stack them on top of each other like a Double Treasure!
There are so many ways to decorate your window box! You can draw on the shutters of the window, you could add even more plants, you could even find a small squirrel statue to add amongst the flowerbed!
However you arranged your new creation, I hope you had SO MUCH fun doing so!! This little window is a playful portal to your very own inner garden! And the roses are just beautiful!
Thanks for crafting with us today!!
See you next time for another craft!
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