DIY! Flowers Head Pieces

Without going too deep for a simple floral craft tutorial, I'd first like to share its point. Floral crafts and arts hold technique, craves style and an artistic eye. I feel some have been over shadowed to the belief that only those who have this, can play with the arts of it. Of which I demand untrue, I think the beauty of working with things in particular perishable beauties such as flowers are their unpredictable forms and demeanour. The Bounds can be broken my friends! Forget what it's suppose to be, use things for the pulchritude of them and the allurement of working with them, have fun and enjoy the materials, enjoy the process that will later produce your outcome. Look not only for the outcome-okay done with that now here's an as simple and quick tutorial to making your very own floral headpiece or crown, I hope you try it out !

INGREDIENTS 

- Floristry Wire 

(24g & 20g)

-Floristry Scissors 

-Parafilm Tape

-Accessories, ribbon or twine

- Flowers ;

points to consider when your selecting are life expectancy without a water source, size of heads to the amount of stems you'll need and durability.

iv'e found using chrysanthemums are easy because the can last up to a couple of days and the come in a wonderful range of colours too!   

First off cut off the amount of heads you think you'll be using wise to throw a few extras in there for you never know you may need them, when cutting leave about an inch of stem from the head.

Now the next step is very simple but can seem complicated so don't let me make it so;

This is the point where you gather your trusty scissors, parafilm and wire. At this point your only using your 24 g wire which is the thinner, cut them down to about half the size rather than the length they come in. and aiming to pierce through the middle of the stem directly under the head as you see in the pictures below to then bending the wire back down like a pin once pushed through.

Now grab your parafilm and starting under the head of the bloom place the starting strip of parafilm, slowly stretch the tape just a little whilst twisting and working your way down the stem just as you see in my picture

finish off shortly after the stem ends by breaking off the tape at that point and through pressure you'll find the ease to appliance with the tape.

So do this with each bloom and or accessories you throw in the mix if you have so chosen

Now you should have a thicker wire about 20g to which you make your skeletal frame with for your crown. You can either make it so it is fully round your head or like i've done now bend over the edges as so i can thread through yarn at the end to adjust it later as so the wear becomes more versatile.

once you have your base shape, parafilm the whole length of wire as to help add friction for the parafilmed stems to rub up against.

Now to prepare for the next step id say have all your blooms with you and enough parafilm torn off to set you up for the next little bit even so you can always tear off more. From here its easy the basic idea is to attach the blooms now to your crown, your method can be by colour or bloom or there doesnt need to be a method at all the wilder the better!

To attach each bloom just remember to place the head up against the wired base as you so would like it to be positioned then using the same technique with the parafilm as you have been bind the blooms stem to the base you might find you need to cut the rest of the wire after the appropriate amount of the stem has been secured to the base. I normally like to place my heads quite close together directly under one another but that just depends on how thick you wish it to be or the effect in which you are going for.

After awhile your crown should start to show and it will start to look like this, depending in your space and placements remember.

Too soon you'll reach your end and at this point you just cut down any longer remaining wires and parafilm to end so as you have a clean finish. Now you can loop through ribbon, yarn or twine whatever works for an adjustable backing.

Now it may not be perfect and if it is your insane for i remember my first one looked like i had sat on some flowers and stabbed wires into them, still i'm trying to perfect the steps but i hope if you attempt to make a flower crown of your own you enjoy the process as i always do. Its such a lovely activity and the end product if you are pleased with it fills you with an even more immense feeling, Below is my most beautiful friends hannah and lilly one wearing the piece i just walked through putting together and another done in blue.

                                                                   ~ Enjoy playing~

Paper Flowers

 -PAPER FLOWERS-


Things you need`
- Paper, you can use newspaper, paper from old books or whatever your heart desires.
(also will need about 8 pages for each flowers)
- Scissors 
- Floristry wire

     

Aswell as being extremely easy to make these paper flowers use for something unique to compliment a gift or even as a gift.

One of my dearest friends recently had a turn of age and has a deep love for Lou Reed, so in her bouquet i made for her i wanted to pop a few paper flowers in there cut from pictures of Lou Reed.

Now allowing 3 pages for the largest size, 3 for your medium and 2 for the smallest cut your circles to fall into those groups. 

Now theres no particular right or wrong with this step just simply cut slightly rounded edges around your circles this i find gives for a more realistic look to your flower.

Do this for all sizes

 you now grab them one at a time and scrunch them up,

once they are all done slowly undo them being mindful not to rip them as

i've done it many times before and still do. This step is to add a look of imperfection and texture which makes for a more tangible paper bloom. 

Grabbing a sprig of your wire and a pair of scissors,

cut the wire in half and bending it over your finger to make a pin.

Gather all of your circles for one flower now and arrange them in size from largest to smallest, starting with the smallest sizes start to slide your circles one after the other onto your wire pin by simply puncturing the centre of your circle equally with either side of the pin then slide each up to the top only then to be followed by the other.

Once you have them all on your pin, bend the wires underneath to secure them in place.

Now all theres left to do really is make your circles looks like a flower, i find layer by layer having a bit of a play and ruffling them forward bending some corners down you'll get a feel for how you want it but have a play your first of may not be perfect for mine certainly was not, but also i think imperfection adds a character to them i encourage.

     So these are my four i put together for the bouquet, now if you wanted to make a bouquet like this, all you simply need is your choice of flowers and some foliage.

And you could do this with a bouquet or in any floral design the list can leak on this is merely an example;

And through out the make of or once done you can insert your paper flowers to sit where you see fit in your little bundle .

But this is certainly not the only use for these paper blooms. You can simply whip up a quick paper bloom to place ontop of a gift to complete the wrapping, you could make a flower headpiece from your blooms attached together a similar process to that would be the making a wreath which i think is even a nice idea for those seasonal times when theres not even a silver to spare you can whip up one of these bad boys.

I recently made one for a friend out of an old poetry book i got for 50c at the second hand store.

~Thankyou and enjoy~