I thought this one different,

pretty!

Thanks Tonya, it been a while since I was twisting and I trying new things out to catch up with the techniques that not many people were doing a few years ago. I've seen some great stuff out there and I've tried replicating them. Next step it to use the techniques on my own ideas.  Going through lots of balloons but I've got a killer dog who loves to destroy them when I've finished.

I suggest popping the dog before it gets the other balloons... Nice flower, just completed a Lotus Flower design that uses a similar structure, but has extra bubbles wrapping around bubbles in the middle, to fill in the gaps, and pinchtwists to make the petals point upwards.

Amazing how parrallel evolution works so often with with balloons.

Hi Charles,  yes beautiful lotus flower I saw it, cant claim credit for mine though, they were on the inside cover of the qualatex catalogue for this year, I managed to track down the lady in Isreal who was credited and talk it over with her.  Lovely lady and happy to share tips.

Once Ive learned a few of the newer tips I can try my own, I just didnt want to stay with the standard stuff I did years ago wanted to strech myself, being on here looks a great place to do that.

If you made it with your own hands, you can claim credit for making it.  

As far as design goes, at least recently, only a balloon hermit can ever claim to have made something completely themselves without influence from anyone else.

Then again, the balloon hermit wouldn't be sharing their stuff because they are a hermit...  So it all works out in the end