Graduation money lei for 2 challenges

At Rosie Dee's Challenge Blog Week #17 Rosie's challenge is to show and share your floral side. I used money folding flower and ribbons flowers with buttons..


This weeks challenge at Arty Girlz Challenge Blog is to use buttons on your creations, it must have at least 1 button on it. I used buttons in my flowers for the gradutaion money lei.

This was so much fun, my first time to make the money folding flower. I added the ribbon flower on top then attatched to the big ribbon. See the last photo for the whole lei.

This is the red ribbon flower, I learned this from my mother she was a dress making. She created pretty flowers from ribbons, buttons, laces and fabrics. I couldn't make as beautiful as hers. I sew a straight line on the other side and then pull the thread to form into circle then tied it and added the button on top.

This is the mini graduation cap that I made for the lei. I emptied the ribbon spool I took out the other side and then cover with black cardstock on the other side. I added the red stickles around it, red fibers and a crystal brad.

My friend asked me to make her a money lei. But I told her that I never made any lei before. But she beg me so for the very fisrt time I gave it a go. It's not too bad, I love how it turned out.

Thank you for looking!