Paper Flower Bluebells

Marijke shows us how to make paper flower bluebells with this wonderful layout of hers!

"Bluebell - A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.
~Brainyquote.com"

I love these paper flower bluebells on Marijke's layout. Aren't they wonderful? But how did she make them? Let's see if I can work it out.

I know Marijke would have studied the actual blooms, stamens, pistils, leaves and stems in real life before she made them out of paper. That is why they look so lifelike.

I think Marijke would have made the stems and leaves on her layout first since that is the first layer of the embellishment. The leaves and stems have been made with different colourd cardstock and details have been marked in with photosafe pens. These would have been arranged and adhered down on her layout before Marijke positioned the flowers on top.

Then I think Marijke has made the petals with small strips of paper that have been curled. She would have cut cardstock into petals shapes first and then added the details of the blooms with photo safe marking pens before curling the petals with a scissors or rolling each petal around a pencil.

Next I think the stamens and pistils would have been made from smaller strips of paper, again with the details marked in with the pens. They would also have been curled and adhered to one of the petals before the entire bloom was assembled.

Finally the little paper flower bluebells would have been assembled in a cluster on the page and adhered down.

Thank you again for sharing your lovely page with us, Marijke. I do miss scrapping with you and the other scrapping ladies in Atherton! Getting news of you with photos this way is so good.

By the way, Marijke is a very lady artistic who has won prizes with her work. She has made some incredible artwork for her scrapbook pages that she has graciously sent to me to share with you. I will be publishing them to PaperCraftCentral in coming days :)

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