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What you need: Valentine paper, can, dowel, felt, brads, floral foam,
Styrofoam ball, ribbon, and maybe a couple more things that I've forgotten...
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First: cut your paper to fit around your can. I used a baby formula can and unfortunately 12x12 paper was just 1/2 inch short. Choose your can wisely. I used double sided tape around all the edges of the paper to attach it to the can.
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Cut out lots of felt flowers. Mine are 2 sizes, one slightly smaller than the other. I cut 22 small and 22 large flowers.
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Sew a swirl on the small flower. It doesn't have to be perfect...
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Cut and paint the dowel. I used a 1/4" dowel about 12" long. Spray paint green.
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Stuff your can with floral foam. It doesn't have to look pretty, you will cover it up. Just make sure it doesn't wiggle around...you need it to be sturdy.
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Snip a hole in the center of each flower. Just large enough to fit a brad.
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Layer a small flower and a large flower. Insert a brad through both.
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Insert brads into Styrofoam ball. After I had most of the flowers attached I went back and added a drop of hot glue to each one.
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Insert the dowel into the floral foam and the Styrofoam ball. This was harder than I thought it would be. Make sure you look at all sides to center it.
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Finish adding flowers.
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Hot glue moss to the top of the floral foam. Tie a ribbon bow around the top of the dowel/bottom of the ball. I used about 24" of ribbon.
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Set your new decoration next to some "love" letters (SEE BELOW) and you are all set!
1 comment:
all your stuff is so dang cute! i do like the brrr letters. thx! so, we decided on stars and a small home set, right? if it isn't worth your time, let me know!
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