Spring Bouquet Tutorial

Now that warmer weather has finally arrived, I needed to add some accessories that are light and airy.

Here’s a quick project to welcome warmer weather

Start with a bag of decorative stones and a small glass container.

{both purchased from Wal-Mart}

Fill the bottom of the glass container with the stones until entire bottom is covered.

Trim a piece of floral foam to fit loosely inside the container. I try to use what I’ll already have in my craft room and this is all I could fine. {tree shaped styrofoam} It actually worked out great because my glass container is tapered some on the sides.

If you have never worked with floral foam before, it cuts really easy. I mad a score line where I need to cut with my fingernail and cut it with a butter knife.

Here’s what you should have.

*Ignore the four holes in the top of the foam. My foam must have been used for another project????

Notice the space around the sides.

Fill around the outside edges of the foam with the stones.

*** One thing I did discover, if I slowly filled a little in each corner with stones and keep working my way up and around, the foam would stay in the center . Did that make sense???

You don’t want to fill one side only because all the stone will push the foam over and you won’t be able to fit any stones in on the other side.

Now we need to cover the foam. I used a piece of sheet moss and 3 of these floral pins. You might be able to use hot glue or even a paper clip to hold in place. That’s what I would have done, but I just happened to have some of these left-over from another project.