May Card Club - Card #2 - dryer sheet flowers over handmade paper

For our second card we played with making flowers using used dryer sheets!!!!  So fun!!  I have made some of these before but on a smaller scale on these cards.  After ironing (low) them smooth I cut the dryer sheet to approximately 3" x 4" rectangles - a sheet into four pieces.  We folded them in half along the length and then then three times across the new length.  Next, we folded that sandwich in half with the fold at the bottom.  We then trimmed the top with all the single edges into a nice round shape starting at about half way up the side and finishing at about half way on the opposite side which creates the petals.  It is only one option - they could be skinny, pointy, wavy, etc. as petals on flower can be very many different shapes.    We opened up the sandwich to be flat again and gathered the width in the center and tied it off in the middle with thread.  We then coloured our flowers to coordinate with our handmade paper backgrounds.  They got very wet so I had the heat gun setup on LOW so we could dry them before we went to the next step.  It is possible to colour them flat but it is harder to estimate what they will look like!!  We added a gold brad to a coloured flower sequin and inserted the brad into a hole in the center which we had made with a push pin.  We used the push pin to make a hole in our background as well and installed the flower.  To finish off the flower we hand cut a stem and leaves from scraps of green cardstock.  Once they were glued into place we adhered this large element to our card fronts.  Therese