Evergreen Bouquet

Hello Everyone :)
My today's project is inspired by this month's Hobby Mela's Challenge, where the theme is on Bouquet Arrangement.
So here is my Evergreen Bouquet which is completely handmade!!

Evergreen Bouquet

I started with the basket first, which is made up of cardboard planks. Glued them together to form a basket & covered it with large pieces of textured paper bits (sky blue colour). Then did some sponging in some areas using green ink. Finally added a border of thin fibre rope at the base of the basket. Using aluminium wire made an arch above the basket & covered it with green floral tape.

For the yellow flowers on arch, I die cut few paper flowers, inked their edges using red ink and emboss around the edge of the petal to give it a nice shape. Then layered up two flowers to give it some puffy look & added a punch craft shape at the centre. Leaves are all hand cut & inked. Arranged all the flowers & leaves on a thin copper wire covered with floral tape and wrapped the wire on the arch.

For the Purple cala lilies I cut few hearts of foam sheet. For the centre I wrapped some cotton on the wire & covered it with orange glue then sprinkled some fine thermocol over it. Then placed the wire on the inverted heart & glued it using fevi kwick giving it a nice shape.

Purple-pink flowers on the other side of the arch are also made with foam sheet (purple portion) & crepe paper (pink portion & yellow fringe).

Small blue and yellow blooms & white flowers are made up of crepe paper.

For the pink lilies visit this link on my blog for complete tutorial

http://shiningcolourscrafts.blogspot.in/2015/08/lovely-lilies.html

For the chocolates I wrapped them in red shimmery wrapping paper added some golden fringe around it & a small green paper base, then stuck it onto the wire to make stem.

Finally added some long paper leaves at the back of the bouquet, and few smaller ones near blue blooms. Then tied a ribbon and a small bird on the arch & glued a butterfly on the flower. Added two long stems with pearls & pink roses at the back which are made up of organdie fabric.  

Hope you like it!! Do tell me how it is :)
Thanks for visiting!!
Have a wonderful day!!

Lovely Lilies

Hello friends!! :)
Hope you all are well. I am very excited to share my paper lily flowers today. These were on my mind from a long time & finally I gave a try & it came out well. I really enjoyed making these flowers.
Have a look..

Lovely Lilies

Lovely Lilies

Aren't these blooms looking pretty? :) I just loved them.

Here is the tutorial:

Cut out 6 long petals out of light colour handmade sheet.

At one end of the petal make a small cut around 1 cm to make a small slit.

Fold the petal vertically into half.

Rub the folded edge on the ink pad & immediately dip into water. Gently dab the ink all over the petal using fingers & thumb so that the ink distributes evenly.

Keep them between paper napkin to absorb excess water.

Leave them to dry out completely or blow dry.

Glue two ends of the slit together. Make a small hole on the crossed slits just enough to move the petal through the wire.

Curl the other end slightly using scissors. 

Cut 5 long stamens out of black sheet. Take a thin copper wire & make a loop at its one end. Glue all the stamens one by one onto the loop. 

Slide 3 petals onto the wire & glue them. Then slide last 3 petals & glue them. Cover the wire using green tape.

Cut out some leaves out of green colour paper & curl them using scissors. Glue them onto the stem using green tape.

And the flower is ready!!

Hope you enjoyed it!!

Do tell me how it is :)

Thanks for visiting!!

Entering in Catchy Challenges

http://catchychallenges.blogspot.in/2015/08/august-challenges-week-2-dr-sonia.html