Pink Paper Flowers

Before I get into my paper flower, I want to share a story with you.  Even though it was the most embarrassing moment of my adult life!

Have you ever gone to a restaurant or drive thru and ordered the wrong thing? no matter how many times you told yourself you wanted eggs over easy, you end up ordering scrambled? or you end up ordering pancakes.  Then when your order comes you wonder "who ordered this?" then you realize it was YOU!
Well, I wish my story was that simple.....but noooo!  Try ordering a HEMORRHOID to go!

When I met my husband, I didn't know some Spanish words...even though I am fluent in Spanish and my first language is Spanish.  Still, there were some words I "Spanglishized" and others I just made up and making up words has always worked for me. Like for example the word "Champurrado" I didn't know what it was until my husband explained it to me.  It's a delicious hot Mexican drink and now I order it all the time.  There were other words, but you get the idea.....and so did my husband. In Los Angeles, there are some places where the person taking your order does not speak a word in English.....there is where my problem began. 

One day we decided to stop by a grocery store called Super A Foods.  Besides groceries, they also have hot food available to go.  It's a very simple concept, you go to the lady at the hot food counter and tell her what you want (in Spanish) and she bags it for you and off you go.  Well, I wanted fish.....fried fish.....the particular fried fish I wanted is called "Mojarra". 

Let me give you a little history on the word "Mojarra" as it relates to me making up words.  Since Mojarra is such a hard word to remember, I somehow changed it to "Almojarra" but still, when ever I ordered it, everyone would understand what I wanted.  A couple of years went by and I somehow changed the name a second time to "Almorraja", and I would get an "I'm sorry mam but I don't understand?" and I would simply say, fried fish in Spanish "Pescado Frito Almorraja" and that would be enough for them to know that I wanted a Mojarra.  A couple more years later, I managed to change the name a third time to Almorroide!(hemorrhoid). The transition from Almorraja to Almorroide made a lot of sense to me, specially because I didn't know how to say hemorrhoid in Spanish (hemmorroides), so the name change made sense in my little  head....

So there I was at Super A Foods ordering a "fried fish".  As I said in Spanish "I would like a Almorroide (hemorrhoid), please" everyone at the store within hearing distance got extremely quiet and looked over at me.  Puzzled, my husband asked, "hunny, I thought you wanted fried fish?" and I said "yes, I want a Almorroide, don't they have any here?".   The second time I said it,  you could just hear the laughter echoing all over the store.....that was when I realized, gee Maria, maybe you should get out a Spanish/English dictionary right about NOW!.  Truth is I didn't know what I was saying and I was getting irritated that the lady behind the counter was giggling and not getting busy putting my hemorrhoid in a bag.  My husband came to the rescue and ordered a Mojarra for me.  Once in the car, he told me what I was really ordering and I laughed like a silly woman all the way home......
Do you have an embarrassing story? have you ever ordered something weird and wondered where your mind was? or when the server brings out your order, you don't remember what it was you ordered?

Well, enough laughing, let's get into paper flowers.


These paper flowers are super easy to make and they look fabulous. 
Here's what you'll need:
heavy card stock like thick scrapbook paper

 spray water bottle, brads, a pencil, buttons
(I used a sharpie so that you can see the lines better)

a hot glue gun or tacky glue, wire cutters or scissors if your buttons are made out of plastic, a hole punch

First draw three circles on the back of your paper with a pencil:
sizes for each flower are 4.5 inches, 3.5 inches, 2.5 inches

 then using your hands, cut out the circles.  This part does not have to be perfect:

here's what they look like when your all done.

next, spray the circles with your water and crunch them up:

layer them to look like this and let dry:

next, take your hole punch and punch out a hole:

push a brad through and open on the other side:

and the back side:

next, clip the back part of your button off, like this:

and hot glue the button to the brad:

and that's it! you can use it for home decor:

 or on a greeting card: