I have always loved cherry blossoms, and as such, have always wanted to have some in my house or garden. Problem is, at the moment we live in a little appartment (so no garden) and we're living on a shoestring budget right now (so no buying cherry blossoms either).
So when this catalogue arrived one day:
I decided to cherry blossom it up with a little bit of papier maché madness.
First I made the "Vase"
In the process of doing that I decided that I would not use any paint on this project, so all the colour would have to come straight from the catalogue itself. So, while the glue dried on vase (helped along as you can see by some trusty rubber bands), I went through the catalogue and cut out hundreds of colour 'swatches' from the pictures of the clothes, the backgrounds and even the fonts they used.
The vase was soom looking like this:
Next came the branch. Here I simply tightly rolled some big pages and stuck them together to make something vaguely natural looking:
While the branch dried, I started on the flowers. Again these were made completely from using colour swatches from the catalogue.
Finally, using lots of pieces of black and a few strips of a hot pink (which was a part of a truly hideous baby-doll dress that is apprently the hight of fashion according to them), I pulled the whole thing together to look like this:
And here it is in it's new home on the shelf in our living room:
And you know, it has (for now) satisfied my cherry blossom craving to a T.
