A few weeks ago, I made flowers - Bachelor Buttons – out of patterned paper.  They were fun and fairly easy.  While I had the folding idea fresh in my mind, I tried it on different materials.  Can you tell what I used this time?  Guess. (This is a re-creation…the first one I experimented with was white, but I think this would work as well for the colors I used, although the finished color might differ slightly!) Anyway, it had been sitting here, buried on my desk, until my cleaning uncovered it.  (This is what happens when I start to clean…I get distracted!)  I hate to just toss those little "trial and error" pieces, but it had no purpose and trying to find it a home can cause serious delay in my schedule.  But then I spied my Glimmer Mist sitting up on my shelf, and a recent trip to the Carlsbad flower fields was fresh on my mind and I thought, "Hmmm…if I spray it with color and don't like it, I can justify tossing it."  Guess what?  I kind of liked it.  I played with it a lot and was happy with the end result.  So I kept it…and kept playing with it.  So much for cleaning!  And on to finding a suitable background for my flower. I have been taught to have great respect for books.  I love books, not only for their content, but for their visual