Helen's Prima Roses

Greeting  Everyone,
Ever since I found out about Prima products, I've been drooling every time I saw their roses at the local craft stores.  They are so pretty and there were time I was tempted to buy them with the 40% coupon of course.  But I held back because I thought I could make them.  And last Friday I finally did it.  Well sort of!

Here are my Prima roses look a like.

I have been trying to fine the Mulbery papers but I couldn't fine them so for these roses I just used the printing papers (28lb).  It took me so long to make these five roses (above).  I had a hard time making the center of the roses.  The following day I went around  looking for punch to make the center of the roses but I couldn't fine any punch suitable  for making the center of the roses.  I went to AC Moore and took a good look at the Prima flowers one more time and I made these.

See the center of the roses here are different from the roses in the first pictures?  I like how these roses came out.  So I made a few more in orange.  I am not a big fan  of orange color but I love how these orange roses turned out.  There were actually two different kind of papers being used for these orange roses.  For the two roses on the left I used handmade paper. Rachele at  A one of a kind  brought a bunch of her handmade papers to share with me.  Thanks Rachele! The other three were just regular card stock.  You can't see the different in this picture but I like the roses made from the handmade paper better.  The handmade paper had some textures on it and it made the roses look softer. I know it sound weir. 

The Prima roses had chunky glitter on the roses.  I don't have chunky glitter so I just used glitter glue and I thought they work just fine.   So what do you think of my new roses?


Thank you so much for stopping by today.  Have a wonderful day!

Helen