More DIY Flowers

I mentioned in my other DIY Paper Flower post that I've become obsessed with painting glass bottles and vases, as well as making the flowers to go into them.  I've since made three more floral arrangements. HAHA, I know.. a little bit ridiculous.  Let me explain, though.  I am horrible...horrible at keeping actual plants and flowers alive.  So, if I want to bring spring and summer into my home, I have to do it through artificial flowers.   I have fun making these, so why not?  

This first arrangement, I made just a couple of weeks ago.  I had gotten some IBC Cream Soda that weekend and after finishing a bottle realized it might be really cute painted and then a bundle of flowers dropped in.  My other bottles and jars didn't have any script on them.  This one does, though, and reminded me of the lovely mason jar arrangement I did (shown in the original post linked above).  I think it gives them a bit more "country character," if you will. 

This bottle was simply painted with some aqua blue acrylic paint from the inside and allowed to dry.

So far, all, but one, of the arrangements I've made end up very multi-colored.  Once I saw how bright and cheery they look with a mix of colors, I've continued bundling them that way.  I think I will end up making a couple that only have one, or maybe two, colors combined.  This is a look at several of the flowers in this arrangement.  Yellows, red, orange, pink, blue, green, etc.

This second one has much fewer flowers than the others.  It only has five, I believe, flowers in it.  I didn't paint the vase for this one, though.  This is a vase that I have had for years and years.  It was sitting out as a decoration all on its own, but I thought it could be put to better use in a different room and with flowers put into it.  The colors of the vase work amazingly well with the flower bundles.  

This is the third bundle I've made this time around.  I went a little crazy with this one.  My husband says this particular one looks like a bunch of fruit loops because I threw random colors into each flower.  Not one of them is a single color or a gradient.  Most of the other flower bundles are mainly solid colored flowers or going from light to dark (or vise versa).  This time around, I grouped together sets of colors that I thought would be fun but look pretty in a single flower.

This bouquet is placed in a glass jar that I painted with yellow acrylic paint.  The jar was actually an empty cookie butter jar.  There are no etchings or designs on it.  It is completely smooth all the way around.

haha, okay, I have to agree with my husband.  This one is awfully bright and I see why he says that it reminds him of fruit loops.  It's still fun and pretty, though!

DIY Paper Flowers

WOOHOO!  Let's all do a happy dance that it is the end of the week!  Time for the weekend!  Alright, now that we have that out of our systems...  Remember earlier in the week I said I would do a post about the flowers that I made for the DIY Painted Vases?  Well, that is this post!

I am so addicted to the vase painting and the flower making.  It is a little bit ridiculous. I find it relaxing, though.   As much as I'd love to, I can't take credit for this idea or any instructions on how to make these.  I found the idea through Pinterest.  The person whose directions I followed can be found here: Moms Crafty Space.  She made the tutorial very simple to follow.

My original idea was to stick with bouquets that contained flowers of a similar color.   However, I quickly got bored of that and changed it up to be a rainbow of flowers.  I'm loving all the brightness!   You can also see one of the mason jars I painted and used as the vase here.

I even got a little crazy and started adding random colors to each individual flower instead of a gradient.  Either way, they turn out beautiful.  And they're really very simple to make.   Since I have a black thumb when it comes to living plants and flowers, I figured this is the best way for me to have flowers in my home.  Plus, I can easily make more to match colors for different seasons or holidays!

Here is another bouquet I have displayed in my home.  I kept this one more simple and clean.  I painted a glass vase that my mother-in-law donated when she realized how absolutely bat crap crazy crafty I can be. I used a peachy pink acrylic paint, but for some reason it turned out softer than it appeared in the bottle.  I still think it is lovely.  The flowers are a mix of solid pinks, solid white, and a combo of the two.

AHHH!   I love making these.  Eventually, I anticipate people are going to walk into my home and think I've lost my marbles because they will be on every surface!  HA!