Flower Power....and such

Again, a long hiatus between posts. Don't you hate when people ask what you've been up to and your response is hmmm.... I've been busy...but what exactly have I been doing? Maybe this doesn't happen to any of you but it happens to me all the time! ANYWAYS, a few weeks ago I was invited to a 'craft night', most of the ladies were scrap booking but I haven't committed to all of that yet. Again, I have stumble upon to thank for this project, well at least part of it. I found a tutorial for paper flowers by who other than the great Martha Stewart! I literally wandered around my house looking for a place for these flowers, finally I decided that my dinning room could use some sprucing up.
First, I got card stock paper in three slightly different shades of yellow. Then Martha says to divide the paper into 4x4 inch squares and free hand a swirl, like so;

then cut along the lines and twist around your finger....

have your trusty hot glue gun ready, and glue the center of the flower in place and you should have something like this,

I then split a 6 inch foam ball in half and applied the flowers with the darkest at the center and fanning out. This was the end result,

I think it really lightened up the room!