The Kate's story behind October’s fun paper mushroom tutorial

 

Happy October! I’ve been daydreaming about this month’s tutorial all year. Mushrooms have a special place in my heart, and I’ve been dying to create one for The Posey Box. They’re a bold and fun departure from our usual paper flowers!

Usually, when Quynh and I are planning a tutorial, we’ll choose a flower and then a specific variety and color of that flower to recreate in crepe paper. But for this month’s project, I really wanted to design a paper mushroom around my favorite mushroom attributes. I wanted to make a variety with chunky and very realistic gills, dramatically shaped caps, and the ability to actually glow. The world of mushrooms is so huge that this exact mushroom might be growing in a forest somewhere as we speak, but the truth is that Quynh and I invented this species just for our members. 

 Hopefully any mycologists out there will be forgiving once they make one of these fun mushrooms. We hope you have a blast with it...

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