Pomander Topiary

I just came back from CA several hours ago, but was determined to do something for the gogreen challenge... sorry for the terrible picture, but it's almost 2am here so the lighting isn't that great, and I don't have any good way of photographing something this tall. :P

 

I decided to make a topiary out of tissue paper flowers -- the same kind of flowers that Tami made in her gorgeous gift package on Tuesday. I recycled tissue paper (white, light blue, dark blue), a wedding favor shot glass I received years ago, packing peanuts and disposable chopsticks from take-out. I used the Raindrop Background to stamp brown dots on the blue tissue paper, and stamped the DB Flourish in blue ink onto white tissue paper. One chopstick served as my stem and packing peanuts keeps it in place.

 

*EDIT:

You can see a closeup of the flowers and see my detailed instructions with recycled materials in my photostream. I also tried to take a better picture of the topiary today. Thanks for looking!

 

I'll have to go to bed now, but I know I must have lots in the pool to catch up on! :)

 

S5101 Raindrop Background

S5034 DB Flourish

Done