Bouquet Making

I decided to make my own bouquet for the wedding since we weren't using any flowers. I found an amazing one on etsy and it was beautiful but it was so expensive! This is what it looked like.

So I figured I should put my art degree to use, and started gathering supplies to make my own. Here's what I used:

A large styrafoam ball, cut in half (we couldn't find halves at the store)
Scrapbooking paper
scissors
a hot glue gun
a 1 1/2 in dowel rod
buttons
ribbon
long straight pins

After cutting the styrafoam ball in half, I had Brandon cut the dowel rod at an eyeballed length to make it look like a handle. I pushed the dowel rod into the bottom about an inch to make a dent. I then wrapped the handle with yellow ribbon and then wrapped a white ribbon with grey detailing over it. I then hot glued the handle into the styrofoam ball.


Then we had a massive cutting/folding/gluing party to make so many pinwheels. We decided on three by three inch squares and Brandon made a template to cut the corners evenly so I could fold them.

 

 

After using hot glue to secure the corners in the middle, I covered the ugly glue spot with a cute button.

 

Eventually I had a large pile of colors and patterns to pick from.

 

I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures of me gluing them to the styrafoam, but basically I did what I could to cover all of the white and make them fit togehter nicely. There were a few gaps that I couldn't cover, so I took a pinwheel and used a long straight pin to stick it into the styrafoam and it added a little depth to the layers of pinwheels.

 

I then used a large (1 or 1 1/2 inch) ribbon and glues loops on the bottom of the styrafoam by the handle to cover it the best I could. It also added more roundess to the whole thing instead of looking like half a circle. Lastly, I used very skinny grey ribbon and just glued some loose pieces to the base right by the handle so they would dangle.

 

Final result....

 

 

 

I LOVE IT!!!

And the best part was it all cost me less than $10. Maybe I should open a business?