Perfect Peony Bouquet
Perfect Peony Bouquet
Other Products: Hot glue gun, Gallery soft pastels 014, Gallery oil pastels 211, 230, Florist Tape - Olive Green, Floral Wire 1.6mm, Green foam, stamens.
For more tips on creating with the foam paper & stamens, watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/Oma6ctVmUD0.
For more tips on creating with the Sweet Peony collection, watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/L9_MLkvpGPQ.
Instructions: Click here to view a larger photo of this project. Stamp the Large Sweet Peony Cling Stamp Set on foam paper with black Ranger Archival ink and die cut using the coordinating dies. Colour with Gallery soft pastels 014. You will need five petals for each flower to create flowers. Use an iron or heat gun to heat the petals and then shape using your fingers. Layer the petals together using the hot glue gun making sure to offset them or use a paper piercer to make a hole in the middle and pull the stamens through.
Stamp leaves in Archival Jet Black ink onto green foam and die cut. Colour with Gallery oil pastels 211, heat and and shape with your fingers. Hot glue each leaf onto floral wire (I did 15 leaves, each one on it's own wire stem).
Attach floral wire to the ends of your stamens, lengthening them, wrapping with floral tape to secure. This creates the flower stems. As you're wrapping, add some leaf wires in with each flower. Once you have all the flower stems, attach them together with floral tape, creating one main stem. Add a little hot glue to the underside of each flower of the bouquet to securely adhere to the wire and prevent it from moving (see tutorial).
Finally, sponge the petals with dries clear adhesive and sprinkle with Ultrafine transparent glitter to complete the bouquet.