Sunday, January 24, 2010

Wire flowers



I learnt basically how to make those from an article by Pat Snyder in Dolls in Miniature. When I had first seen the article, I was not really impressed. BUT when I saw color pics of them, first on the web somewhere, and then on Shelly Norris's site , I became an enthusiast ! I first tried to make some basic flowers by myself with the wire I could buy here, and then took a lot of internet classes from ShellyN.

Last month Dienke from P&M , a Dutch miniature mag, was here and she got quite interested and maybe I could write an article on them ? So I contacted Shelly and she was agreeable.
Today I finished the photographed and written tutorial.Here are the test-products. Now let's just hope they are good enough and the instructions clear enough!

4 comments:

  1. Elly....did I miss something? I'm not seeing any tutorial.
    hugs Karin

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  2. Hi Karin, I wrote the tutorial for this magazine for Shelly Norris :-)

    Cheers,
    Elly(Amsterdam)

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  3. Glad to see you gals like the flowers. I am Patricia Waring (Snyder) son. I made flowers with her for many years and she always loved doing it. Thanks for keeping her art style alive. She would love that.
    Scott C. Waring

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    1. Scott, thank you for replying here !!! Many people are delighted with the technique, I know, and some of them even make fantastic creations with them , like Stacy Hoffman who also makes and dresses dolls -and makes glorious guirlandes of very small flowers as a decoration . There are several more who do them very small, as well, so the art has not been forgotten.

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