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Old 10-06-2008, 08:39 AM
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Default labor intensive!

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Originally Posted by mrsd View Post
Those are really nice! I've never seen metal flowers before!
Thanks - they are a lot of work. you cut and then wire pieces together - then dip in white paint as a base, then spray paint colors, then paint by hand.

I think the craft (flowers) started out being cut from aluminum cans - then someone learned about sheets of aluminum that offset printers use. So I'd go visit offset printers and buy sheets of their used aluminum.

But I never see the flowers any more. I don't think anyone is making them.

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