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Show off your loved ones and decorate with color at the same time by creating these pinwheel flowers.
The opportunities for using this craft can be fun. Use them in centerpieces for an engagement party and adorn them with photos of the couple, turn them into refrigerator magnets for Grandma's house or decorate your office door. Mount the flowers on a painted pencil and put them in a flowerpot with some Styrofoam topped with moss, and you have a family garden of pinwheel flowers.
Send them home as baby shower favors adorned with baby pictures of the mom and dad. Get creative and grow your own pinwheel flower garden. This is one even the kids will have fun with.
The paper used for this craft makes the project even more fun, because you can play around with patterns and designs. Scrapbook paper yields double-sided options, or if you want, use some of the double-sided gift wrap that you ordered from the neighbor's school fundraiser last year. It works perfectly.
For this project, you will need a paper cutter, scissors, double-sided decorative scrapbook paper, coordinating sheets of single-sided paper or double-sided gift wrap, double-sided tape, a scrapbooking eyelet, eyelet-setting tools, spray mount, a small photo and magnets.
If you are working with single-sided paper, glue two sheets of coordinating paper together by spraying the back side of one sheet and sticking it to the back side of a second sheet.
Cut the paper to a 6-inch square. Begin at each corner, cut into the center in an arch and stop about 1 inch before the center. Do this at all four corners.
Use double-sided tape to adhere each corner to the center of the square, forming flower petals. Reinforce the hold by setting an eyelet at the center of the flower, where all the petals overlap.To set the eyelet, create a hole with the punch. Place the eyelet in the hole with the colored side on the front of the flower. Turn the project over and use the eyelet setter to set the back of the eyelet.
To see how this is done, watch the Crafting 101 video 
Create a photo pinwheel flower.
Once the eyelet is set, cut the photo into a small circle that will fit inside the center of the flower and adhere with with double-sided tape.
To make the flower into a magnet, glue a small magnet onto the back. To turn it into a pinwheel flower, stick a straight pin or brad through the eyelet and into the eraser of a pencil before placing the picture on the flower. Place several into flower pot, each adorned with a different picture.
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