Feel like a princess with a Flower Crown made from watercolored paper flowers! In this Part 3 I show you how to attach wire stems to watercolor paper flowers. Then the flowers are attached to a purchased eucalyptus base culminating in this sweet crown. Let’s get started.
supply list
- Assorted watercolor paper flowers (see Part 2 here if you missed it)
- Scrap Lemon Lime Twist cardstock
- 3/8″, 1/2″ and 1″ circle punches
- Take Your Pick Tool with paper piercer tip
- 22 gauge green flexible paddle wire
- Needle nose pliers
- Wire snips or old scissors
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Ready made eucalyptus base
step by step instructions for flower crown
Begin by punching out various sized circles from the Lemon Lime Twist cardstock to match the sizes of the flowers. Then poke a hole in all of the circle centers with the paper piercer tip on the Take Your Pick Tool.
Cut approximately 4-inch lengths of the paddle wire with the wire snips. Hold one of the pieces of wire vertically and with the needle nose pliers, bend a small loop on the top end. Then bend the loop to 90 degrees, creating a ‘hook’.
Slide one of the circles up the length of the wire and snug it firmly under the wire hook. Add a dollop of hot glue on top to secure the hook to the circle. And quickly add the flower on top, pressing gently until the glue sets.
Once all of the wire stems are on the watercolor flowers, set the eucalyptus base in front of you. Take one of the largest flowers and nestle it amongst the leaves. Then wrap the wire tightly 2-3 times around the base, pushing the leaves aside. I positioned the two largest flowers off towards each side as I didn’t want them smack in the middle.
Then add in the next largest sized flowers and continue adding flowers, grouping some of them together and scattering some out along the sides. Once all the wired flowers are attached, cut off any excess wire.
I added the filler flowers (the ones that look like a cluster of three mini tulips) by putting a little hot glue directly on the paper stem and attaching them to either eucalyptus leaves or the underneath side of the wired flowers.
I also attached watercolored Lemon Lime Twist diecut leaves in the same manner as the filler flowers. The contrasting color of the leaves adds a nice variation to the greenery.
Comment who you’d make a flower crown for!!
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