I love cupcake liners both for baking and crafting. There are so many fun colors and patterns. I picked up some mini cupcake liners recently and had to find a project for them.
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My kids have enjoyed helping me with the flowers this summer, so I decided to do a flower garden.
What you need to grow your cupcake liner flower garden
- Cardstock-I used blue for the background and green for grass, stems, and leaves
- Mini cupcake liners for flowers (any color)
- Yellow mini cupcake liner for sun
- Pom-pom-for center of flower
- Mini cupcake liner and 2 in pipe cleaner for butterfly (see instructions below)
Make a mini cupcake liner butterfly:
- Fold a 2 mini cupcake liner in half
- Fold the liners into quarters
- Fold the tip of one liner over; leave the other liner as is
- Place the liner with the folded tip over the other liner and glue
- Cut a 2 in. piece of piper cleaner, fold in half an attach with a glue dot
- Flip over and you have butterfly
I just free handed the grass, stems and leaves, but after cutting pieces for all 3 kids, I was wishing for a template.
Print one for yourself here on green cardstock: Stem & Leaves for Flower Garden
For the grass I cut a 1 1/2 in. piece off the bottom of a green sheet of cardstock. I then did a fringe cut to make it look like individual grass blades.
Instead of pom poms, you could use buttons for the center of the flowers.
