Portrait Rachel: Flower Wall Art

Ah, Pinterest. You can be wonderful but also, well, let's just say that there are entire blogs based on your epic fails. You know it's true.

Anyway, I recently saw a pin that I wanted to attempt, but I wanted my wall art for my bathroom so I decided that I didn't want it to be on canvas - hairspray, steam, and dryer lint probably wouldn't be good for that.

Instead of canvas, I found a 12x12 frame at craft store and a 12x12 piece of scrapbook paper for the background. I found six sheets of scrapbook paper that fit the color palette I wanted. Sunday afternoon I set up my crafting station.

Clean table - check
Cutting tools - check
Double sided sticky tape (from Creative Memories) - check
Background paper - check
Colored papers - check
Bathroom towels for color comparison - check
Pinterest inspiration loaded - check
12x12 frame - check
Music - check
Iced tea - check
Fudge - check

What? Fudge is essential to the project, no? Oh. Um. Moving on then (after licking chocolate off my fingers).

1. Cut a 2 inch wide strip off the bottom of each of your scrap book papers. Don't measure these cuts, just eyeball them (this was hard for me - I like things to be exact (I may be anal that way)). Then cut that strip into 2-3 inch rectangles.

2. Starting at one corner of the square make a curved cut to the opposite corner and back again to create a petal. Repeat this process, making some smaller and some larger.

3. Begin to lay the petals out, starting with a center circle. You may want to trim some petals smaller or cut larger ones. Rearrange to your heart's content.

4. Carefully pick up the center circle, add some scrapbooking tape, and put it back. Work your way out doing the same things on the leaves. I ended up taking a bunch of the petals from their original placement and permanently placing them on one by one. Do whatever works for you!