little flowers

I recently saw a great idea for a teacher's gift that I just had to make. Originally, the idea was for a gift card bouquet made by Amy.  Since the mom's collecting for the gift were getting one gift card per teacher,  each child has decorated or had help writing a message to be placed inside of their flower. I wrote each child's name on an attached leaf.

I think we're going to get each one a nice pot or vase to go with these.

 

I used the Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge for the flowers, embedded embossing with embossing folders to set the coloured centers into the white ( love this technique!), and SCAL to weld together the leaves and cut them on the Cricut. This project has me thinking I need a Gypsy.

I used bamboo skewers  for the stems and a styrofoam cone for the base.

I can't wait until next week to have the children present them!