You will need:
1- 2.5 inch styrofoam ball
5- sheets of 12x12 paper
1- bamboo skewer
1- small terra cotta pot
a small styrofoam ball that will fit in the bottom of the pot
hot glue gun
white paint
candy hearts
To make the rosettes you just make a spiral and the bigger you make it, the fuller your flower will be.
Then you cut out the spiral and start rolling it tightly from the outside to the inside.
If you let it loosen a little then it will have more open petals.
I just played around with it and made lots of different ones.
When you have it how you want you put some hot glue on the tail
end of the spiral and set the flower down on top.
Press it down to make sure that the paper gets glued down to it.
There's the bottom of the flower.
Once you finish a flower or two you can start gluing them
onto the styrofoam ball. I only had 4 sheets of paper and I think
if I had had one more sheet it would have been enough
to fill it up. I wish I would have covered my ball with
some red tissue paper so that it would disguise
the holes that my flowers didn't fill.
I sprayed the little pot with 2 coats of chalkboard paint. I did
this outside and it was a beautiful sunny day so it dried fast.
I painted the bamboo skewer with white acrylic paint and broke a little off the end so it wouldn't be so tall. Then I pushed the pointed end about halfway into the flower covered ball. I hot glued the small styrofoam ball down into the bottom of the little pot and then pushed the other end of the skewer down into it.
I filled the rest of the pot up with conversation hearts and
drew a heart onto the outside of the pot. The fun of the
chalkboard pots is that you can write whatever you want on them!
Here's the finished topiary, I wish I knew how to take better pictures.
I don't think I got a picture of it that really does it justice.
I love it! Happy Valentines!
I love it! Happy Valentines!
So cute!
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So cute!
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to participate in our linking party this week, and looking forward towards your next project this week.
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