Tutorial: Quick and easy tulle flowers

I bet you've already seen these flowers in my projects,

so here's how you can make them too (quick and easy)!
First of all, you need some tulle, I've bought mine from Jumbo. I fold the piece of tulle a few times and then I use an stapler as shown:

Then I cut a circle like shown, I also color randomly the center with a marker:

 Then I fold it around the back end of a pencil and while I hold it in place with a pair of tweezers I use my heat gun so that the tulle starts to shrink. A little attention is required because if it gets too much heated, it will be ruined.

 Here's the result:

Last step, I embellish the center with a pearl, or microbeads, etc.

 Quick easy and pretty, as promised! Have fun ladies!

Project: Fairy Mirror

A while ago I had purchased a plain wood mirror from IKEA, I wasn't quite sure how I would alter it but I bought it anyway. So, when Easter was approaching, I thought to make a fairy mirror to give to my niece as a special Easter gift for her new room. Here it is!

 First of all, I chose my least favorite cheap Penguin paperback, tore a few pages in pieces and colored them with distress inks.

Then I covered the wood with Claudine Helmuth's Matte Multi Medium and put the pieces in place. Then I coated it with another layer of the medium where I had added a drop of Tattered Rose distress ink so as to have a lightly tinted pink glaze.

I had already colored with my copics some fairy images I found online

I also added some stickles, accented the edges with the Pumice Stone distress ink and then adhered them on the mirror. Then I covered the lot with another coat of the Matte medium where I had also added a drop of pink distress ink. The execution was somewhat cumbersome because the brush left pink streaks on the images, next time I will use a Making Memories foam brush instead.
Then I added some random splashes of glitter on the mirror and adhered the embellishments: I made the little pink blossoms with heating with my heat gun some round pieces of pink tulle so as to have this effect.
I had already stamped the butterflies on a clear acetate sheet and colored them with my copics, I adhered them on the mirror using Ranger's Glossy Accents, I also covered the top of the body with it and before it was all dry I sprinkled it with glitter.
Last step, I colored the plain chipboard letters with distress inks, I also sprinkled them with glitter and adhered them on the mirror with foam squares.
A trully fairy mirror, fit for a little fairy princess!

Card Making: Easter Card #3

In this card I ventured a bold color for the card base, that is a dark but vibrant red. Then I thought to combine it with green, so I used distress inks on a piece of white cardstock and then stamped on it with a Hero Arts Designblock stamp and cut the edges with a round punch.
When I mounted it on the red card, the contrast was too much for me, so I stamped on it with white ink and the Hero Arts Old Letter background stamp (on second thought I should probably have used ivory and not white...)
The combination was perfect for mounting the image, it is a freebie that I colored with my copics. Then I faced the dilemma: how do I adhere it to the card??? So I had the idea to use the tulle I recently purchased from Jumbo, so I colored it first with distress inks, then adhered the image on top with foam squares and...ready!