A Pinch and a Punch

April is with us. It may not seem like it. But here, it is.
 I've been very busy with The Medlar House Mice and so haven't had much time to post on GYR.
However I've kept the Facebook page of GYR going.

There have been some pretty things which have taken my eye. I think that we needed some heart warming imagery when the weather has been so horrible. They lift the spirits, don't you think?

I just loved this flower arrangement for the colours..

Making flowers always lifts my spirits. Over on BoxCleva I have a tutorial about how to make flowers which are made from mulberry paper. The blanks can be bought almost anywhere and of course you can punch out your own blanks if you have some flower punches.

I have dozens of flower punches but opted for bought in mulberry paper ones, for my projects, so that I could try them out for my readers who may not have a lot of punches, nor indeed any.
Prima flowers
They have so many applications, not least decorating the boxes for which BoxCleva is named and for beautifying the little box stands which I like to use to elevate the Medlar House Mice, from the surface of the display table, when I go to craft fairs.

I went to one on Saturday with the mice, with my Gather Ye Rosebud silk flowers, with decorated boxes of course and with a new idea of mine..pretty decorated houses which light up.

We tried a few of these glittery houses at Christmas and I wanted to make them all year, so made them rather Eastery to begin with. They are also on BoxCleva.
Here are some links for them.

A re-flowering

And for those on Facebook...

Houses
Naturally, they too are festooned with flowers.

So I called this post and Pinch and a Punch, because flowers were punched out and I've pinched my own posts from Facebook.

Happy April.