HellofromMhay Bronze Craft Medal for All Time! 63 Crafts
March 18, 2011
The spring colors of this bouquet will brighten up a wintry
day and bring a little sunshine into someone's home. Scrapbook papers, pink
textured cardstock and painted bamboo skewers were used to create this bouquet.
Supplies:
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petal pot
spray paint in light pink
acrylic paint in apple green
10" bamboo skewers
Styrofoam floral block
scrapbook papers
green and pink textured cardstock
1" scallop circle punch
buttons
1/8" satin ribbon - dot green
hot glue
glue stick
pencil
2 chipboard flowers (used as template)
paper shreds
scissors
paint brush
Instructions:
Protect work area with newspapers. Spray paint petal pot pink and allow to dry.
Paint bamboo skewers green. Allow to dry.
Cut as many flowers as you require from pink cardstock and scrapbook papers using the chipboard flowers as template.
Use 1 inch scallop circle punch, to punch circle shapes from cardstock (green and pink) and scrapbook papers. Glue circle paper at the center of each flower.
Center a button on each flower with a dot of hot glue.
Cut various sizes of bamboo skewer. Use hot glue or double-sided tape to adhere paper flowers to one side of the bamboo skewer.
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Note: You can add two flowers on each piece of skewer (front and back).
Then tie ribbon bow around bamboo skewer.
Cut floral foam to fit into petal pot. Adhere it to the center bottom of pot
with a hot glue. Stick bamboo skewer (with paper flowers) into foam.
Arrange paper shreds to cover foam.
Attach a personalized tag with small foam adhesive.
