Let your creativity bloom
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Craft and photo provided by AC Moore
These easy flower pencils are the perfect fashionable and functional Mother’s Day gift
MATERIALS
- Cupcake liners (baking cups) of your choice
- 10 cm clay pot
- 0.5 cm circle paper punch
- green washi tape and green cardstock
- Green moss
- Floral polystyrene
- Tacky glue
- Push pins, scissors, plastic knife and pencils with erasers on the top
STEPS
Step 1: Wrap pencil from the eraser down with green washi tape to make stem.
Step 2: Fold cupcake liner in half three times. At the outside edge, cut double scallop shape. Continue this step to make a total of five layers, cutting the scallop away from the edge to be smaller than the previous layer.
Step 3: Starting with the biggest layer, add a little bit of tacky glue to the centre and attach the next layer. When all layers are attached, put a push pin through the centre and attach to the top of eraser.
Step 4: Cut two leaves for each flower out of the green cardstock.
Step 5: Punch hole at the base of the leaves and slide up the pencil to the eraser. Wrap washi tape around under the leaves to fully cover the pencil. To add a bit of presentation to your flower pencils, place a piece of polystyrene in a clay pot, push the flower pencils into the foam and add green moss to cover the top.
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