A better photo

I think you can see the detail more clearly in this photo. I set the plant on my back porch and I really like it there.

Pansies take two

This time I painted a coffee filter with more realistic colors. The colors are softer and the coffee filter paper texture is more realistic. You can just see the last pansies I made under my thumb in the photo. I couldn't get a really good picture of the two side by side. Poke the photo to see everything more clearly.

Pretty Little Pansies

I was looking through an old issue of American Miniaturist (June 2007) this afternoon and found a tutorial for pansies. It didn't look too difficult so I decided to give it a try. The pot on the right was my first attempt. I used the heart punches at full size but the flowers are too large for 1:12 scale. For the pot on the left I hand cut all of the hearts down a bit. These were really fun to make so I think I need to look for a smaller heart punch. :)

It isn't my tutorial to share but I can tell you the basic shapes if you want to play around with these. There are 3 yellow hearts, 1 purple heart and a small green circle for each flower. The leaves were cut with an oak leaf punch. The buds were made with one heart and one circle. This tutorial called for regular colored copy weight paper but painted coffee filters would give a more realistic texture. I just used the colored paper today since I just wanted a quick project.