Quarantine Picnic

So what do you do for a Quarantine Birthday?  A social distance picnic!  Both my son and granddaughter have their birthdays this week.  Like everyone else we have a Birthday parade planned for the weekend but my granddaughter turns 12 Friday and we wanted to do something special.  You see usually we have her choice of dinner ready and we invite the other Grandma over for dinner, cake and presents.  This year is a bit hard but my daughter-in-law came up with the idea of a picnic dinner.  Hmmmmm...great idea.  we will all be at a social distance but still able to gather.  She'll have her favorite dinner and get cake & icecream as well as gifts.  Thank goodness for Amazon.  We got her gift and her dads but I had no wrapping paper.  Ah ha but I do have newspaper, coffee filters and streamers so I wrapped with the newspaper, made a little bow from streamers for my sons gift and a flower for Toris gift from coffee filters.  Ya do what ya need to do when in quarantine.  lol

Here's a close up of the flower.

I used 2 filter which I cut into a leaf shape and then used food coloring to die them.  They got all wrinkled from squeezing out the water.  Then I folded 4 filters into fourths and cut petal shapes and died those pink and then 2 filters cut into a smaller scallop edge and died those yellow.  When dried I scrunched each flower in the middle, added glue and stacked all the layers.  Then glued it on to the leaves.  Super easy and it made the newspaper not look so....well...drab. Aimple but large tags will top them off.  These are 4" x 8.5".  The layers were scraps that I had in my scrap basket so I have no idea of the company for the papers except some were from an old 4x6 pads from Stampin Up.  Obviously the Pink one is for my Granddaughter.  Altho my son has been known to wear a Tutu.  Long story lol.

 I can't wait til our picnic.  Hope your finding alternatives to things too.

Til next time......................................
HAPPY CARDING!