When I opened a letter the other day, I caught a glimpse of the beautiful gray pattern in this security envelope.   The first thing that came to mind was, I bet that would make some cute flowers.  I took the envelope apart carefully and punched as many shapes as I could.  And I love that since you’re crafty you probably don’t think I’m weird for doing this, right?

Here is the first scalloped circle:

I misted them with Sunflower.

I dried them with my heat tool and crunched up a few of them.

To construct the flower, i put one circle on my piercing mat.

I inserted a second layer, just rotated a little bit.

then I lay a crumpled layer on top.

then i put one more crumpled layer on top.

I selected a complimentary button and placed it on top of 4 layers.

Using my piercing tool I made holes to correspond with the button holes.

I used a tapestry needle to thread some bakers twine through the button and all layers of the flower.

I tied a bow and voila, a recycled flower!

I wanted to use this flower on a card for a friend of mine, so i also needed to create a card background.  I am quite in love with turquoise skies and white clouds, so this is what I went with.

I cut a piece of watercolor paper in a square.  Using a wide brush, I brushed water over the bottom portion of the card in the shape of a hill.

Then I used meadow green glimmer mist like water color and brushed it on the water, like a wash.

then I applied water to the top portion of the paper, leaving a cloud shaped portion dry.  Then I added turquoise blue glimmer mist with a brush.

at this point you could use a heat tool or a paper towel to blot it dry.

after it dried, i stitched some ric rac as a stem for the flower and used a glue dot to adhere the flower to the card back.  a little stamped, punched, misted sentiment and here’s a card full of happiness for my pal

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and you don’t think I’m crazy for punching up my envelopes (wink wink).

Happy Misting and Blog you later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy

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