Paper Flowers for Spring

Paper flowers are my thing right now. Well, they will be, when I get around to making more than 2. I'm cutting up old Highlights magazines - we have a 2 year stack in the basement, and I find they're great for paper crafts. Free too, which is a plus.

I found a paper flower tutorial on Pinterest: http://whimsicalworldoflaurabird.blogspot.com/2011/03/paper-flower-tutorial.html. They're relatively easy to make, and pretty forgiving too - even if your folding and gluing isn't perfect, they still look great:

The plan (and I do  have one) is to embellish a bunch of pictures I've just hung up in my dining room - I've had these frames forever - they're all different, were all white, and all REALLY cheap. I spray painted them different colors, and now I'm going to glue paper flowers on them in bunches. If I ever make more than just the two. Here's my first sample: