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Augment Your Craft Flowers

To get the fullest looking floral bouquet, you want to have the fullest flowers. Depending upon the flowers you use, you might wish to perk them up a bit.

You can put together a flower bouquet purely from purchased plastic flowers or cloth flowers. I find that some crafted flowers can usually be made that out shine any inexpensive commercial ones. So I like to make a crafted flower the main component of the bouquet.

I like shredded ribbon flowers the most, like the one in the picture.

I like to dress up the ribbon flowers with extra leaves. The leaves that work easiest are ones with a hole in the center for the wire flower stem.

The leaves I used in this tutorial were obtained by removing them from some inexpensive plastic flowers. I used the remainder of the flowers for additional filler in the floral bouquet.

S&S Worldwide - Children's Craft Supplies

Leaves for the purpose are available at some craft stores. I've found a number of great leaf styles at S&S Worldwide .

Once you've made the flowers, slide a leaf flush to the floral tape at the bloom, and fasten in place with floral tape at the base of the leaf.



Flower with Added Leaf

As you can see, the flower is improved by the addition of the leaf. To get the flower up to the level it needs to be for a flower bouquet, I usually add a second leaf.



Adding a Second Leaf

To add the second leaf, wrap several turns of floral tape around the stem at the desired height of the leaf. Put enough tape so that the leaf can't slide over the tape.



A Complete Augmented Flower

When the second flower is in position, wrap floral tape around the base as with the first leaf to secure it.

At the left is pictured a craft flower with a couple of added leaves. Don't you think the flower has much more body with the extra leaves?

If the flowers of your choice also need enhancement, you can try the leaf idea. Whether you need to enhance your flowers or not, you'll need about 15 of them to make a full bouquet.


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