Blooming Linnie Blooms mini pillows....Linnie Blooms Blog hop project!

Oh my goodness! This will be fun!
Here is my Linnie Blooms blog hop project. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I had fun making it.  Would be great for Mother's Day....:)
Don't forget to comment and go to all the other links and comment...you can win $50 in Linnie Blooms products!

 What do you think? I love these little pillows and plan on making lots more and different flowers.

                  First I took the large Linnie Blooms leaves and cut them all in half...

        I used 8 leaves and cut them in half to make 2 rows for the sunflower that fit perfect on the mini pillows.

                  Then I arranged them onto the mini pillow to look like a sunflower.

 I took 8 more leaves and rounded one edge for petals on my daisy. I left 2 leaves to use as leaves.

 I arranged them on the pillow and took pictures with my phone to remember placement on both pillows.

 I used acrylic paint to paint everything. You can use the colors you like but I think the sunflower needs to be yellow.  I ironed everything paint side down to make them flat after they were dry.

 I made the daisy white...but you could make the flowers all kinds of pretty colors. Bright and cheery colors would be great. Make daisy pillows in all different colors...how cool would that be. :)

                                            I glued all the petals in place with hot glue.

 I painted over them with a couple coats of PPA...Perfect Paper Adhesive. Just to soften them and it helps to keep them clean.  It will not dry shiny...but protected.

 I hunted for small black buttons...they are harder to find than I thought...and I used them for the center of my sunflower. You might want to paint the center black first so the green doesn't show through. Mine did and I used black beads to hide it...:) For the daisy I found a big pretty yellow button.

                                      I used a black PITT artist pen to dot the center...

                                                     All you have to do is stuff them.

 And there you go! So cute and a great gift for Mom..sister..daughter, granddaughter.

Be sure to click on the Linnie Blooms Design Team logo and you can find all kinds of Linnie Blooms products to make your own pillows.  And for any of my customers...I have them in store too.



Here are the links to my other team members blogs...comment and you could win!

Beth Watson

Mayoori Jain

Ann Strecko Koeman

Karen Sessions

Gail Green

Noelia Inglesias Gonzolez

Dawn Mattson

Trish Cortez

 And please join me on Facebook @ Morning Star Crafts and Collectibles just click on the link below for more fun and great projects!

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Have fun and smile!

~Dawn