Many of you are so over Winter and ready for Spring. Right? Here’s a little DIY project that will keep you cozy indoors and add a little bit of sunshine in your space. It’s a floral topiary and it is E-A-S-Y!
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This was my inspiration. My talented friend Megan made these and they’re the perfect splash of color and texture in her home. Are your wheels spinning with ideas yet? As you can see, the concept is super versatile. Her flowers and my flowers are different. Her arrangements set right in the candlestick things and mine is a tall topiary. Very different bases. Completely different results. And yet the process is pretty much the same.
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Basic supplies needed: styrofoam ball, flowers, hot glue gun (all found at your local craft store).
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You’ll also need a pot or candlestick or some sort of base. I love shops like Home Goods, Ross, Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, etc. for great bargains on cool pieces. Target, WalMart, flea markets, yard sales … really, you can find something just about anywhere. You may even have something laying around your house that could use a fresh coat of paint.
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Your silk flowers will likely have stems.
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Step 1: Separate flowers from stems. This usually means just pulling them off.
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Step 2: Put hot glue on the bottom of a flower.
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Step 3: Press that flower into the styrofoam ball and hold it there for a few seconds to ensure it’s secure.
Tip: If your flowers have tips that stick out a little bit like mine did, push that into the styrofoam first so the little dent is already there. Then add the hot glue and press the flower into that indention.
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Step 4: Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
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Cover the entire ball except to leave part of the bottom uncovered. If you’re creating a piece like Megan’s, you could leave a larger section open to set in its base. If you’re making a topiary like mine, you’re only leaving a small space to insert a stick.
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Step 5 for a topiary: Shove floral foam in your base.
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Step 6: Insert your stick (I spray-painted mine silver) into the bottom of the ball.
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Step 7: Finish filling in the gaps with your last flowers.
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Step 8: Insert the topiary stick into the floral foam.
Tip: Cut the ends of your stick at an angle so that it’s easier to stick into both the floral foam as well as the styrofoam ball.
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Step 9: Use some mossy grassy stuff … or whatever you want at the base. Hot glue helps keep it all in place.
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Step 10: The finishing touch is to perhaps add a piece of fruit, or a few smaller pieces.
Tags: craft, floral topiary, home decor
Very cute arrangements. Can you tell me what craft store you purchased your flowers from, they are adorable. Thank you
Gloria
I hve made these before, and they are so beautiful…..you did an awesome job and sharing the photos as you go along, is perfect for someone who are better at visual instruction vs written instruction. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration…I’m going to run out and do this. I’m so ready for the rain to end and the flowers to appear!
Love these! I’m on spring break next week, so I am going to try to do one of these. Any chance you’d ever want to share pics of your living room? We’ve seen your kitchen. I’d love to see how you decorate your living room.
Interesting. My wedding bouquets where similar. Only, we didn’t glue the silk flowers on. We used a florist ball and trimmed the flowers’ stems to be shorter, using wire cutters.
I really love this project! I prefer the ones in the candlesticks and can see making these asap! Love the splash of color. How do you think she had the styrofoam balls sit in the candlesticks? Did she hot glue them to the rim?
Thanks for a great idea Becky!
Hi! My candle sticks had a 2 inch spike coming out of them, but you could just cut the bottom of the styrofoam ball so that it can be flat with the top of your candlestick and glue it, or leave it round if the top of your candlestick is open and use floral adhesive or hot glue to adhere it.
Megan
Can you tell me how tall the candlesticks are and do you remember where you bought them from?
Gorgeous! Thank you for the tutorial. I have often wondered how these are made. I’ve always wanted a Christmas one, too. I would love to know where you found your flowers. Thanks!
Adorable!! I think I am going to add this to my project list. Thanks for sharing!!
Oh my goodness…love this…I am going to have to give this a try! Can’t wait to make a trip to Hobby Lobby…
Thank you for bring a little spring into my day. It was much needed!
Wow!! I’m speachless. It’s so pretty
Thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing the step by step process. Love it! Have a great day!
Although I love your blog, I have found it to be a little heavy on the Project Life marketing lately and found today’s craft DIY a refreshing change! Thank you…
This is why I initially fell in love with your blog and have missed your crafty projects, recipe and general organization tips that once were a mainstay in your blog….don’t forget those tips too Becky!
PS Can you give us any sneak peaks on the school kit? I am sure it is still in production/design, but I am holding out buying anything for my latest who had begun school this past year…with another to start school this fall too, I don’t want to get too behind with school stuff – The school kits of yours I purchased back in your CK days have been a lifesaver with my oldest, but I need kits for my other 2 kids too! Can’t wait!
Thanks again!
Just wondering-what is the stick thing that you stand your flowers on? From Michaels or? Thanks!
Looks like a spray painted dowel rod to me. You can get them at pretty much any craft store, or Lowes, or Home Depot.
Becky,
Thank you for the great step by step instructions with pictures! I love all your decorating ideas. I am soooooo over winter, but old man winter is not ready to leave- 5-8 inches of snow tonight. I hope they are wrong!! I have put all my snow man decorations away and ready for bright flowers so this will be perfect!
Molly
Hi! So fun! I have some similar fake flower decorations around and wondering if you have any good tips for dusting the! We have so much dust here in CO with it being dry that they are hard to keep nice looking! Would love to hear some ideas!
I also want to know how to dust these?? I really hesitate when it comes to putting silk flowers in my house because dust accumulates in the flowers and it is so hard to get the dust off.
Hold them over the bathtub and use your hairdryer to blow the dust off!
I LOVE your arrangements and that aqua pot – I need that!!!! I also love everything in the background, from the floral arrangement on the shelf to that lampshade!!
so lovely! thanks so much for sharing, as always!
That is awesome!!!! And look’s actually do-able for those of us “less” crafty!
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I love this Becky! Thanks so much for the tutorial~I was just changing things out for Spring and this will be PERFECT on my mantle! Thanks for the inspiration—oh, and I say this every time I comment, but I am SO in love with Project Life—it has totally changed my scrapbooking. What a blessing it has been to me! I LOVE doing it and I know in a year I’ll REALLY love looking back through it. Enjoy a great weekend!
Love it, going to have to give it a try !!
You are one amazingly talented woman! Thanks for always sharing your talents. In your first picture; in the back on the middle shelf of the bookshelf there is a flower arangement in a blue vase/bowl. Have you featured this before on your blog? if not could you? I would love to re-create something similar to match some accent fabric I have in my house. Thanks
Love it! I’m also loving the pillows in the background of the first pic, can you please tell me where you got them? Thank you!
I also want to know where you got them, particularly the yellow/mustard one with the decorative {ribbon} flowers. I got a new couch and would like to do something similar with putting multiple patterns/designs together. I have searched all over the internet/etsy for a decorative pillow with ribbon flowers but came up empty handed.
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Hi Becky – this is SO BEAUTIFUL ! Thanks for the idea!
I just wanted to let you know that I am starting Project Life today. My impetus is that – hopefully – this is the start of the rest of my life as a healthy-eating, moving, good-role-model-for-my-4yo-DD. I’ve put down my WeightWatchers points, and my 1st photo is my profile shot. It ain’t pretty – but it’s real. I’m hoping that reording this journey as part of my everyday life will encourage me to keep going, and see that keeping healthy simply is everyday life. I have a VERY long way to go, but today it the first step.
And the reason I wanted to share with you is because I think that you will understand the importance of recording it. DH is super-supportive, but doesn’t get scrapping/crafting ( “why are you cutting this up to put it back in a different way ?”) and I don’t know anyone else who “keeps the story”. I wanted to thank you for your continued inspiration, and for giving me another tool to help me. You rock !
Becky…Whoa girlfriend…BIG inspiration here…go check out my blog today http://suzeweinberg.typepad.com/suzeblogz/ It certainly got me off my tush and creating something just amazing !!! Thanks for that glorious inspiration & your beautiful photography !
My wife would love this! I actually like it too…
Thank you for the inspiration. Here is my version. http://ragtagmama.blogspot.com/2011/03/little-bit-of-spring.html
I’ve been meaning to make one of these for a long time! Time to get off my duff and do it!
This is such a great idea! I’m going to share this with my friends and link it to my post in the morning. Thanks for sharing!
Flowers play a symbolic part in our daily lives as they have their own significance. The presence of flowers is seen at all events which are related to us like marriages, birthdays and even religious ceremonies. In certain countries, the presence of flowers is considered as very auspicious and is believed that the gods would come down on the earth smelling its fragrance and bless the occasion. Flowers also played a vital role in almost every person’s life and it is a known that the secret to a woman’s heart is through flowers as they definitely fall for the beauty and fragrance of flowers
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