FAUX CABBAGE FROM COFFEE FILTERS

I made a head of cabbage for my Easter bunny out of coffee filters and you won't believe how this project came about.

 Tina at What We Keep posted a picture of a floral arrangement that had faux cabbage leaves in it that was so gorgeous, that I couldn't stop looking at it.  Click HERE and take a look at it.....I'll wait for you.
Wasn't that a beautiful arrangement and weren't those cabbage leaves cool?  If you read that post, she told you that she made them herself....by accident.  I was so fascinated by those, that I made that picture be my screensaver and looked at it all day.  Then I contacted Tina and told her I wanted to try it or something similar and asked her permission to link to her if I did.  She is so nice, of course she said "yes".  
So I set to work...... 

 I gathered some acrylic paint, a styrofoam ball, and a stack of coffee filters.  I ended up only using 2 of the colors shown.  I mixed up a little bit of the Apple Green acrylic paint with a lot of water and set the whole stack of filters in the bowl to let them soak up the color.  This happens VERY fast.

Then I mixed up some Foliage Green acrylic paint and water and flipped the filters over so just the tops were dark green.

They still absorbed the color very quickly, but you can see the effect above.
Then I spread them all out on a table and let them dry overnight.  Patience is always the hardest part of any project for me!  When they were dry, I stacked them back up and I painted the edges with a little more of the dark green, just to give them some definition.

 Using straight pins, I pinned them on to the styrofoam ball in layers, just kind of crumpling them around as I went.  I didn't get any pictures of this, because it's a two-handed job and went so fast it wasn't funny.  I kind of folded down the edges on some of the leaves in hopes of making them look more realistic, something I noticed on Tina's picture.  What do you think?

Not as cool as Tina's project, but fun in a different way.  A note about Tina and her blog.....
Did you ever notice that button on the right side of my blog that says "Proud Member of the Nothing Will Happen Club"??  Well that's how I first met Tina...by stumbling on to THIS page about the Nothing Will Happen Club.  I applied what I read there to myself, when I was stressing about blogging...you know...you've probably been there.  It changed my attitude and my blog quite honestly.  So go read about it and ask Tina if you can join...she'll let ya...then you can have a button too, and maybe even eliminate a little self-imposed stress in your life as well!
I hope you enjoyed this project and this post.  If you didn't..well...

"Nothing Will Happen"!!! 

Thanks Tina....You are Awesome!

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