Wedding DIY: Bouquets

Yay it's Friday!

Yesterday I promised to give you a sneak peek at my wedding bouquet.

If you remember back to this post, I was exploring the option of making my own "non-traditional" bouquet.

I'm known for my craftiness, and would just love to implement that into our wedding.

This first bouquet is an unfinished prototype, but I was bound and determined to show it to you whether it was complete or not.

First I made a bunch of white and yellow roses...

(tutorial here, or here)

(sorry I only have pictures of the white ones)

Then I used a whisk as my skeleton and glued on all my felt roses and leaves.

I have no idea why the white roses look blue in this picture.

Anyway, I was planning on decorating the handle with some ribbon and a big bow.

After a few discouraging words, this poor bouquet got tossed in the trash...

(don't worry)

(I saved it from doom)

I am planning on making two to three more bouquets so I can experiment with different fabrics.

It's more of a trial and error process, but I am learning along the way. 

Tell me, honestly...

What do you think of my felt bouquet?

Wedding- Bride Bouquet DIY 2

Oh Hello There!

Back for MORE wedding posts?

Today I'll be featuring another bridal bouquet (also by rocknrollbride.com)...

Isn't it pretty?

This bouquet is a little simpler than yesterday's but still totally gorgeous!

Here's the teaser...

Materials:

Fabric flowers & assorted flower hair-clips (I would have loved fresh flowers but I wanted to have something I could keep forever)
Cotton twine
A few scraps of wool
Scissors
An egg beater/whisk (as you can imagine, it was such a ‘light-bulb’ moment when I thought of using it for the stem!)

Step 1:
Hold on to the whisk as shown on the image and with a little force, try to deform it into a oval/circular shape. You can use tiny wires or something to tie on the criss-cross parts to keep them stay in shape if you need to.

Step 2:
Stuff the scraps of wool inside in whisk. This will help form the shape of the bouquet.

Can you believe you’re almost done? I told you it was easy!

Click here for the rest of this easy tutorial.

This week is all about weddings so be sure to stop on by tomorrow!

Wedding- Bride Bouquet DIY 1

Good Morning!

I'm in the wedding mood as you will see in this week's posts...

Today's post features a fabric bridal bouquet from rocknrollbride.com!

1. Fabric

2. Tools: Scissors, Rotary Cutter, Self-Healing Mat, Ruler, Compass, Glue gun with lots of glue.

3. Notions: Felt, Embroidery Thread or Regular Thread, Green Cloth Floral Wire, Buttons, Embellishments.

For this tutorial I decided to make my bouquet nautical themed so I choose a lot of red, blue, white and yellow fabrics and found buttons and some gold rope that made perfect embellishments.

First thing you need to do is create your flowers. I like to use two types of flowers, (Yo Yo Flowers and Ruffle Flowers,) but you can also add any other kinds of flowers; crocheted or knitted flowers, felt flowers, etc.

1. To make Yo Yo Flowers you will need to cut out circles in varying sizes. I like to use a compass so I can make many different sized circles without having to cut out different templates. I recommend circles that are no smaller than 3” in diameter.

2. Using a needle and thread sew around the edge of the circle. You don’t have to be too careful here, just try to stay close to the edge.

3. Continue sewing around the circle, the fabric will gather as you go.

4. Once you get all the way around knot your thread and you’re finished!

See the rest of the tutorial by clicking here.

Have a happy Tuesday and take time to make something beautiful today!