Thank you Patty Szymkowicz

It started with Patty, who made some flower creations (here and here), then posted the link, which led to a tutorial that showed me how to make these stunning beauties.

And Thursday I stopped chasing links and got my courage up to make these. I've had NO (and I mean NO) flowers bloom in my yard this year, except the tulips that bloomed in March, so I had to use some that I pressed last year.

I know I have more pressed flowers, but I think they are hidden at the moment behind a stack of precariously balanced materials I'm using to make journal pages. At least I now know how to make them and love the look. The one on the left has a dictionary page laid underneath it to show it off better than my craft sheet that shows through under the other two. And yes, I will be sewing them to fabric or paper in the near future.

I'm going to let Lynn of Her Creative Spirit share the tutorial and directions for making these. Lynn's is my blog choice of the day. Scroll down her pages and you'll see a ton of examples of how she made her bookmarks, book covers, and tags. She uses flowers from her garden in Canada and wildflowers indigenous to her area. They are stunning and oh so precious. Please stop by and enjoy her art, or learn how to make these, like I did. And thank Patty at Magpie's Nest, too, while you're at it. Without her, I would never have found Lynn's blog. What an awesome blogging community this is.

As an update, our beautiful weather lasted one day, and yesterday, while my friend Sally and I were out and about, the temperature soared to 92 degrees F. Today's forecast is the same, again with ZERO percent chance of rain. Seems like this hot, dry summer is sticking around a bit longer in south central Kansas!