One post, three different crafts, one must: flowers.
The bridal march will be nothing but complete with that perfect bouquet. I've dubbed myself to be a broke-ass bride-to-be and being one entails having a keen eye on where we'll put our money. To cut our expenses, we've agreed to plunge into the DIY wedding escapades everyone seems to have been raving about in the recent years.
Our main idea of what our celebration would be is a warm party. Having every detail DIY-ed will seem to be challenging, but I must say that it's pretty much what we wish for. DIY essentials involve creativity and thriftstore sojourning.
My bouquet will surely place itself in our DIY catalog, which we'll start crafting this coming April. Hurray!!! *smiles widely* For now, I'll be concentrated on looking for affordable bouquet ideas. Like these three I've grabbed online!
A beautiful mesh of fresh flowers and handcrafted ones. Can you guess which is which?
How To:
1: Collect supplies. Use fresh flowers, handmade velvet flowers, berry twigs, feather birds, feathers and vintage brooches. A family heirloom ribbon (vintage tatting) and velvet ribbon can be used to personalize the bouquet!
2: Start from the center. Gather the fresh flowers altogether in the center and build the floral base of your bouquet. Work your way out by adding more and more flowers. This time around, surround the base with crafted flora.
3: Tape them. You will need to hold the stems together, so gently wrap the stems with floral tape. Make sure that not a single stem is let loose.
4: Adorn. Use what creative heirloom pieces you have or crafted materials are there present! You'll be using feather birds and wires to have them wrapped accordingly. This fun part will all depend on your peg for your bouquet.
5: Use a trusty ribbon. Wrap the base of your stems with a pretty ribbon. Be creative and use other materials!
Courtesy of The Broke-ass Bride
Love is indeed in the air for this couple. I've fallen in love with this craft tutorial. I might make my own bouquet like this one! LOVE IT :)
How To:
1: Trace the hearts in your felt fabric. Using your cookie cutter or heart template trace out your heart shapes onto your felt. We used a heart cookie cutter that’s about 3 inches tall.
2: Cut out your hearts. Do this carefully to ensure that the shape of the heart will not be jagged or difficult to re-shape.
3: Sew. Using your embroidery thread and a needle start stitching your hearts. Make sure that the sides you traced on are now facing inwards so that you don’t have any pen/pencil marks on the outsides of your hearts.
4: Leave some space. Stitch the entire way around your heart, leaving about 3/4 of an inch near the pointed end of your heart.
5: Fatten it up. Gently stuff your heart with a small amount of batting.
6: Sew the stem. Take your clothe wire stem and make a tiny loop at the end. Place the looped end inside the heart and begin sewing up the last remainder of your heart while you wrap neatly around the stem as well. The looped wire end will prevent your stem from coming out of the heart. {{Note: If you don’t want long stems you may be able to cut your stems in half thus doubling your stem. THERE! Your heart-on-a-stick is done! Make as many as you’d like depending on what sized bouquet you’d like}}
7: Tape the stems. Once you’ve created all your heart-on-a-sticks you can start arranging them in a bouquet. If you’re on your own, use some floral tape to help secure the placement of each heart.
8: Ribbon time. Once you’re happy with your arrangement, you can add your ribbon. Using a glue gun (sparingly) being wrapping your ribbon around your stem. Use whatever width and texture of ribbon you’d like!
Courtesy of Labelle Bride
Burlap bouquet wonder. Perfect for that rustic vintage wedding theme! Oh! DIY magic! Oh that magic!
How To:
1: Cut. Cut a strip of burlap about 2 inches thick and a foot long (depending how big you’d like your flowers).
2: Paste. Take your stem and glue the tip of it onto the very end of your strip.
3-4: Roll. Begin to roll your stem into the burlap, gluing along the way. Continue rolling your stem about 4-5 times. This creates the center “bud” of you flower.
5-6: Petal folding. Now it’s time to start your petals! Take the fabric strip that is dangling from your “bud” and make a fold away from you, holding the bottom of the folding piece close to the stem. Overlapping your first “petal” slightly, create another backwards fold or petal. Again, holding the bottom of the fold near the stem.
7: Paste. Glue your first two petals in place. Try to put the glue closer to the base of your flower.
8: Repeat. Continue steps 5-7 until you’ve completed an entire row of petals all the way around.
9: Tighten it. Poke your glue gun in here and there to secure the flower
10: Base foundation. With your remaining fabric you’ll now secure the base of your flower and the top of your stem by winding the fabric around, gluing when appropriate.
11: Tada. Voilà! Your little burlap flower!
12: Adorn. Now personally I like these flowers just on their own, but if you’d like to add a little color to your bud you can add a small piece of ribbon and a pearl pin in the center. If you’re making a bouquet like in the first photo, assemble a few burlap flowers, trim the ends and wrap with ribbon. It’s THAT easy.
Courtesy of Labelle Bride
Such amazing finds, right?
Sources: The Broke-ass Bride, Labelle Bride, Labelle Bride (again)
Posted on 1/31/12 at 1:10 PM
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