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Easy cupcake flowers...TUTORIAL

Happy Valentine's Day! I hope everyone gets to spend lots of time with loved ones. I woke up this morning to gobs of CHOCOLATE, and a gift card to a nail salon...loving cute, pedicured toes for SUMMER. What a WONDERFUL husband I have!!!

I wanted to share this great idea, my mom shared with me, for putting flowers on cupcakes.

You start with mini marshmallows and a pair of scissors. (Please wash your scissors BEFORE and AFTER) Cut your marshmallows in half~ corner to corner.

Next,gently push the sticky end of the marshmallow onto some pretty, colored sugar.

This is how the marshies look, when covered with the sugar.

Arrange them in a "flower" pattern on a frosted cupcake...

and, lastly, add a gumdrop to the center.

This was super easy, and we decorated 30+ cupcakes in less than an hour.

What do you think? Will you give it a try?

One Dollar Wednesday... flower clip tutorial

Happy Wednesday! It's been ages since I posted, but I've been running on empty for awhile. Luckily I have my babies. I love my children so much! I hate to send my "bigs" to school every day, because they miss out on the fun the "babies" and I have.

We could do this every day...

brownies and beautiful babies, what's better than that?

Project time...
I have a plethora of artificial flowers from the Dollar Tree, and decided to finally put them to use.

I like to layer my flower clips, I think it just adds a little "something". To do this I got a bunch of flowers that were the same color.

I took my flowers apart. If you don't take these plastic pieces out, they just don't lay right.

I reassembled, or messed with the layers a bit, until I got the look I wanted. Then
glued the layers together with hot glue.

I added a flat bottomed crystal to the center of my flower.

For a more "finished" look, I covered my clip with a bit of ribbon. Just hot glued it all the way around.

Here it is, all finished. The possibilities are endless when layering, and I love these flowers for spring and summer.

Hershey Kiss roses tutorial

I've been wondering for weeks what to get my man for Valentine's Day. I am always at a loss, and then I remember how much he likes food. This year I'm giving him a chocolate rose bouquet, among other things. I thought I would share how I made the Hershey Kiss roses.

Supplies I used:

Red Cellophane
Hershey's Kisses w/ almonds
bamboo skewers
scotch tape
floral tape
greenery
scrapbook paper and ribbon for embellishment
Sugar shaker

Start with some bamboo skewers. I painted mine a spring green color. I would have gone darker, but wanted to use stuff I already had.

While your skewers are drying, you'll glue your kisses "bottom to bottom" with a dot of hot glue.

Put a skewer in the end of one kiss and tape it closed around skewer.

Cut your cellophane into squarish pieces (mine were roughly 4in X 4in. VERY roughly)

Fold your cellophane over your Hershey kissed skewer, and twist it closed.

Secure with tape. At this point I wrapped floral tape around the scotch tape for a more finished look, but alas, I forgot to snap a picture of it.

Add greenery by securing it to the skewer with floral tape, or if you're lucky like me, you can just push the skewer through a hole.

I lined my sugar shaker with festive red paper, and filled it with red pistachios...

Add a tag... I'm NUTS about you!

Easy paper flower tutorial

This metal paper filer was on sale at my local DI. It was $2.00, which I thought was pretty steep for the condition it was in, but because I could see it's potential, I forked over my cash.

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