I recently was reading a blog post which inspired me to make a 4th of July centerpiece.
Kelly at Live, Laugh, Rowe made these adorable Patriotic Paper Flowers. She gives a great tutorial, so I won’t rehash that here. Click on over using the link above to read her tutorial.
These are her gorgeous flowers and my inspiration!
I found some red, white and blue scrapbook paper and off I went to try making paper flowers. As usual, I found the cute little buckets at the dollar spot at Target. I already had the chenille stems, candles, and decorative gems on hand. The paper flowers look so impressive to me, I thought they might be hard to make, but they were actually really easy.
My supplies. I thought I was going to use the cute red and white ribbon, but didn’t end up using it.
I used my Creative Memories Custom Cutting System Circles to cut out all my circles. Made it easy peasy!
In her tutorial, Kelly, mentions that you can use floral wire, pencils, dowel rods, pretty much whatever you have on hand to make the flowers. I had chenille stems on hand. I decided to give them a try rather than buy something else. They work just fine. If you are using chenille stems and you are putting them in a bucket using decorative gems, I have 1 tip for you.
#1 above, I found it easiest to arrange the flowers in the bucket with the gems only about 2/3 of the way filled. Otherwise, when I tried to arrange them with the gems full, the stems tended to bend and not go where I wanted them to go. With the gems about 2/3rds full, once I had the flowers where I wanted them, I carefully added the remaining gems as you can see in picture #2 above.
Such a bright, cheery centerpiece….just makes me happy to look at it! Thanks so much Kelly for the inspiration!
Cheery flowers in fun colors sure brighten up my table!
They even look cute and festive at night with the candles lit. Just make sure that your paper flowers are well out of the way of your candles. It would really dampen the 4th of July to have things catch on fire.
Happy 4th of July! Enjoy your holiday!
More 4th of July Fun:
@Bonnie @ uncommon Thanks so much! I hope your summer is fantastic as well. We are just trying to keep out of the bugs and heat at the moment.
Rachel G Thanks! I haven’t done much of anything in the past. These just were so cute, I decided to go for it this year. Enjoy, if you make something this year.
Courtney Foster Thanks so much! I hope all your 4th of July projects turn out really well!
@Virginia Thanks!
@pamela Thanks so much!
@Becky Thanks! So, did you run to Target? I hope if you did, it worked out really well for you.
@Megan Thanks!
I love how these turned out! So adorable! Hope you are having an amazing Summer!
Take care,
Trish
Wow, that looks great! I have done nothing at all yet for 4th of July–but it is the season for it, I should get cracking!
oh that is adorable! i am up to my ears in fourth of july projects but this might need to be added!
I love the patriotic centerpiece!
Really cute! New follower from the hop – hope you will do the same!
This is adorable! I may have to run to Target tomorrow for buckets and make this for our table! Thanks for sharing!
Those are so adorable!! Megan
Vel Criste Thanks so much! Hope you have a great 4th as well!
Thanks so much, we are enjoying it! @Teresa Kaufhold
Thanks melissa @ mamamiss.com!
Thanks so much Kelly Rowe! Thanks for the inspiration!
So cut e! I bet your 4th will be a blast with this vibe on the table!
this is just right. and looks like it was not to difficult to reproduce yourself. very fun.
Ohhh, this is just so cute! What a nice centerpiece!
Teresa
Beautiful!!! ♥ them! 🙂
Yay! They turned out great, KC 🙂 Such a fun and festive centerpiece!!
What wonderful 4th of July decorations. I love the look. Jodi @ http://www.meaningfulmama.com
This turned out great and I LOVE my CM cutting system … I use it for all my paper crafting 🙂 Would you stop by and share this at my patriotic link party?
https://shakentogether.blogspot.com/2012/06/whats-shakin-link-party-15-patriotic.html
Thanks so much!
@Kelley Yeah, I think even a year ago, I couldn’t have done this. Mine are 10 and 5 now, so I can get away with more. My kids have also learned not to touch the centerpiece within an inch of their life…lol! Thanks so much for the comments and the feature!
So pretty and festive
Ohh.. how pretty!! If my kids wouldnt knock it down I would defiantly make one for my table. So cute!
Im featuring this in a fourth of July roundup tomorrow too! 🙂
Thanks so much for letting me know. I am heading over to check it out. Have a great weekend and thanks for the feature! 🙂
Thanks so much! Have a great week!
Very cute! I featured this on my Friday 5, have a great weekend!
Cool flowers.. I just pinned it! 🙂 Thanks for linking up at friday fun party..