Wand-erful or Not?

I've already grown weary blogging about this flower wand. It has been many weeks since I have started this project and it took so looooong to complete. Numerous times, I have felt frustrated because I am not pleased with the progress of my work. But thanks to my readers, my friends in this cyberspace, who willingly give suggestions and opinions. I am truly grateful especially for the times that you appreciated my work, it inspires me. So again, thank you.

The whole day in the office yesterday, I was thinking of what else should I add to the bouquet because I want it finished sooner so I can move on to other projects. Then before I went home, I decided to have a short trip in Carolina's Glorietta 5 to buy some silver metallic ribbon. I have also been planning to put the mesh ribbon for days and last night, I finally had the time to execute all those hanging ideas in my head.

Again, I am all eyes and ears open for your comments. :)

Ate version

Felt Flowers Pt III

I made a little progress with the flower wands. Yes, you heard it right! Wand it is!

My mother doesn't know that I got the blue fabric from her stash. She has a lot! I don't think she's going to make dresses from all the excess fabrics stocked in the house. Haha. I am just not sure how will she react if she finds out that I am scavenging materials from her stash under her nose. :P

I am getting frustrated with this project. I added a few purple rosettes to the bouquet. Whatdyatink?

Added a funnel-like thing to the base to hide the Styrofoam

Felt Flowers Pt II

Like any other human do-it-yourselfers, I also have my share of epic fail projects. There are DIY projects that will challenge you and drive you at wit's end. My plan for having flower wands/cones might lead to (I don't want to say this, promise) failure. Nooooooooooo!

I already created the base layer for this project and the same steps are used for the smaller flowers. We'll start off on how I managed to put the stems of the felt flower. I think it took about a week for me to figure out how I am going to do it.

Felt Flowers, Experimental Stage

I am thinking of DIY-ing the flower baskets for the flower girls but instead of having baskets, I want it to be different like wands or cones. This project is still in the experimental stage, so I am in the process of creating felt flowers to be used as an alternative to fresh flowers.

The pattern I used can be found here. I am still undecided on what I am going to put in the center. I am thinking of either pearls or rhinestones. The images shown below will be used as the base layer of the felt flower. If you have visited the link, you can see there that there are at least two layers for the camelia. So far, I have created five of this and I'll continue making the smaller layers hopefully this evening provided that my fingers have healed from the needle pinches. Haha.

Materials:

1. Felt

Tools: 

1. Needle & thread
2. Scissors
3. Pen or anything to draw the pattern on the felt