Paper Roses - Happy Birthday Grandma!

This weekend we had a family get together to celebrate my mother in law's 85th birthday.  Mom is such a blessing to our family.  We had a great time, laughing, sharing, eating tacos, candy and cake.  Mom's favorite color is blue, her favorite flower is yellow roses and her favorite candy is Turtles. I used those favorites to inspire our decorations.

This was our little favor box.  I found the idea for the paper roses here.  They were so simple to make.

I first cut a piece of cardstock into a 4"x4" square.

The instructions say to cut your square into a circle.  I found that it didn't have to be perfectly round so I just rounded the corners.

The petals look best if you cut your "round" kind of squiggly.

Starting from the outside cut your circle into a spiral, continuing to squiggle the line.  (How is that for technical terminology?)

Starting from the outside roll into a tight coil. 

Rolling tightly like this will help hold the shape of your flower.

Gently let the swirl/flower loosen in your hand.  It is fun to watch it become a flower.  :)

In the beginning I used my glue dots to hold the back down.  Eventually I changed to the hot glue gun and I liked it better. 

I have a die cut machine that I used to make leaves but they would be easy to cut out freeform. 

Hot glue flower and leaves on to the favor box.

Again, I used a die cut machine to cut out my boxes.  For this project I just cut out lids.  2 lids together were just right to hold one Turtle.

The small candy wrappers are printed on a regular address label.  Very easy to design and they fit a Hershey's Nugget just right.

Happy Happy Birthday to my sweet Mother in law!