Fabric and paper flowers

   I saw this craft on Youtube and totally fell in love with the flowers. Then I saw that the projects were 2 years old. I just have to face it again that I don't keep up with all the new trends in clothing or crafts. When it comes to electronics it is even sadder, I'm usually 10 years behind.
   I started with one flower as practice and then made another one and then the third, which I then started to call them sunflowers. I went scrambling through the kitchen drawer because I knew at some point I saw some old coffee filters. Low and behold they were there and they were brown ones. Yippee. I stamped a coffee filter like I was told on Youtube and let it dry, I cut out the circles and sewed basting stitches onto the paper. The next step was to bunch up the stitches, and it worked.  I found my buttons for the flower centers and then thought I needed to try a stamped doily flower. I didn't sew this one because once I cut out the circles there was no place to sew. My husband asked me what I was going to do with the flowers, and I really didn't have a clue.
   The next day I thought I should make a wall hanging with my cute little sunflowers. I love the fabric I used as background and then thought it needed a border. The sunflowers didn't do it for me. Boring...I knew it needed leaves, but I felt to lazy to make them. Finally I got around to an idea for the leaves but they didn't work out how I planned. I wanted bulk and a 3 dimensional look so I backed the leaves with felt to make them pop on the background fabric. Finally,I liked the leaves and flowers but I wanted to add some sparkle and beads to represent flowers sparkling in the undergrowth of leaves. Man oh man the creative process is sometimes slow.