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| Today is my day to show what I created. My first bouquet is q-tip pom pom flowers. There are five Styrofoam balls, with about 900 q-tips between them. After they were stuck in the balls, I dipped each flower in, diluted with water, pink paint. I even made the leaves from fabric. |
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| The flowers are on wooden dowels, which I then wrapped in green fabric strips. As I wrapped the stems, I added the leaves. The leaves are made of fabric that has been heat and bonded, then cut out free form. |
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| Here is a closeup of the flowers. Only the tips are painted. |
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| "Tippy Tulip" the bear, thought the flowers looked very Springy! |
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| For my second bouquet I used the Clover Pom Pom maker in the small and medium sizes to create my flowers, which are made of fabric strips. I used a variety of prints and solids to make the flower heads. Again, I put each pom pom on a wooded dowel and added green strips of fabric around the stem. The leaves were made by me, also. Bonded fabric, added as I wrapped the stems. |
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| Here is a closeup of the flowers. |
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| These bouquets were a lot of fun to make. |
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| "Tippy Tulip" liked this bouquet, too. |
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She really had a hard time deciding which one she liked the most. Tippy is going to a special party on Sunday and is going to take the bouquets with her.
Now wouldn't these be perfect to give as a gift for Mother's Day. After all, Mother's Day is May 12th.
Please be sure to stop by all the other creative ladies today. Let's see what other wonderful ladies have made. |
April 25
This is a great way to "think outside the box".
Have a fun filled day. I hope this little breath of Spring will inspire you.
Mary
74 comments:
Lovely flowers. Great minds think alike!
Really neat projects!
Your Q tip and Pom Pom flowers are fantastic! Thank you for sharing how you made them.
Your pom pom flowers are so, so pretty and very unique. Never in a million years would I have come up with those ideas. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Oh Mary! We do think alike! :)
I wish we lived closer!! I am certain we would have a grand time bouncing ideas off of each other and creating for hours! :)
The flowers made with fabric strips are genius
I think Tippy Tulip is one smart bear! What a neat idea with the Q-tips. Have to ask...did you sew material together to make long strips or use strips from a jelly roll? And how long were your strips? Dying to try this out.
The pom pom flowers are wonderful. Very creative.
So creative to use them like this.
Thanks forsharing
Frederika
Very creative!!! Thanks for sharing..
Very clever and creative. Thankks for sharing with us.
This looks like a fun project!! And because we are longing for flowers this spring, good timing too!!
Very nice flowers!
Q-tip pompoms! What a Great and a very unique idea which turns out cute, thanks! Jane
Lovely bouquets, so original and cute! Thanks for sharing!
So cute! I've seen the Q tips before, but not the fabric strips. Both are wonderful and make an everlasting spring flower!
Both are great Mary, but I really love the Q-tip bouquet! So, so clever!
Your pom-pom bouquets are very pretty and very creative. Q-tip pom-pom flowers! Really cute. Fabric strips for making pom-poms ... I never would have thought of that! I am going to have to try this one. Thanks for sharing ... :) Pat
Those q-tip flowers are so out-of-the-box!! Love that! and I almost made some flowers using fabric strips! I must try that!
What a great job on this project
oh my word...you stun me still....I thought, well you will read about it over there wink...
but these flower celebrations are simply irresistible
you rock
Your flowers are so lovely and cute. Thanks for sharing
Congrats on being the creative pick of the day! That q-tip bouquet is adorable. Great projects all around!
love the cotton swab and fabric pompom flowers so creative. nice decorative touch
Q-tip flowers--amazing! They are so cute! I love the fabric pom pom flowers, too. You were very creative with the pom pom ideas--love it!
Q-tip flowers. Now I've heard everything, lol and they are darling! - So are the fabric strip flowers. You're branching out. 8) What terrific Mother's Day presents.
Take care,
Susan in Texas
Hi!!! Both of these are so pretty!!! Thank You
Wow. I love your originality. Your flowers are beautiful!
Mmmmm, love the "raggy" flowers :)
Wow, what a great idea. As soon as I get my pompom makers back from my friend I am going to try to create some of the scrappy spring bunches. Thanks so much for sharing this great idea.
How clever! Your flowers are all so pretty! I would have a hard time deciding too!
You are so clever! Both bouquets are lovely. Who would have guessed that those were q tips in disguise!??
And fabric pom poms? Do you have to join the fabric strips in some manner or just keep wrapping and the ends fall where they may?
Hope you and Tippy have a grand time at the event. THX for sharing how you accomplished your hop entry!
Both bouquets are fabulous! and I love your blue and white jug, I have a smaller version of that design!
Thank you for sharing!
What beautiful spring bouquets. Wonderful use of the pompoms. Never thought of using qtips to make them. great idea.
Both projects are lovely, but those Q-tip pompom flowers--Wow!! They look like they'd be a lot of work, but they sure turned out beautifully!
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Never saw anyone make Q-tip flowers before, how creative! I like the fabric flowers too. You certainly don't have to wait for your garden flowers to grow that way and they last so much longer too. Great ideas!
Those Q tip flowers are just gorgeous and I really like the fabric flowers too. Great job.
very creative! Did not realize the pom pom makers would work with fabric strips. The Qtip flowers are sweet. ngrats on being one of the chosen.
These are brilliant!
These are very crative. great new takes ont he old pom pom
Your bouquets are just adorable. Great idea to use fabric in the pom pom makers and the Q-tips, WOW is all I can say. That is just fabulous!
Your bouquets are amazing! Very creative use for q-tips and I really like seeing how the clover maker can be used with fabric strips and not just yarn.
such clever pompoms .... who would have thought Q-tips.
thanks sew much for sharing
in stitches
I love them both! The q-tip one is fantastic!
It looks as if spring has definitely sprung! For sure the Q-tips need to come out in October for breast cancer month. They are phenomenonal. I was thinking of a flower display of poms, but from yarn, certainly not fabric. You are very clever and creative. Great ideas. Now, the ideas are starting to come more. I took a creativity class in graduate school. It was a wonderful experience. The hop always reminds me of that class and I know the professor would enjoy this hop. I need to let her know of this. She is retiring this semester and is thinking of learning to quilt. Thank you for taking time to make these wonderful projects. I know they took many hours. And thank you for sharing your creativity with others. I can tell from the other comments that your are greatly appreciated.
What original ideas! :)
love your ideas
-very funny and unique ides.
Thanks for sharing.
Love the Qtips flowers!!! What a grand idea!!!
Cute cute idea!!
Wow - 900 swabs! That must have taken a long time!
So creative!! Thank you!!
Now that's different... both projects! Wow, very creative!!
Wow, very very creative, and so original...how did you ever think of that?
Love the pitcher...I have a whole set of the blue calico dishes that an old bf bought for me 30 years ago, and I still use them and love them!
Your use of fabric strips to make pom pom flowers is brilliant. They look fabulous. Happy Hearts are Creative Hearts...
love the flowers, all of them. Thanks for the tutorial with the q-tips
Wow. So very creative!
Wow! I would never have thought of that, very creative :)
Great job, they look lovely!
What sweet enjoyable flowers. You certainly made "unique" very special. I loved how the q-tips were dyed; marvelous.
Very spring like and party ready. I will never look at a q-tip the same again.
Absolutely darling!
How creative you are, a truly unique idea.
wow, very creative! I wouldn't have thought to make pom poms from q-tips or fabric scraps!
These are both fantastic! And such a lot of work!
Two beautiful bouquets. You are sew very creative. Congrats on that top spot too. It is well deserved.
Amazing
Lovely flowers - so clever!
Very clever! I never would have thought to do that with q-tips!
Very nice! It's the first time I've seen q-tip flowers and they look great.
What a cute idea. I love them both. I am sure learning a lot about pom poms this week.
Love your pom pom's very creative both of them.
What a neat idea with the Q-tips, both projects look smell worthy. My husband wants us to go to Buffalo NY when we come to the States, how was it?
I love your flowers! What a clever idea to use q-tips to make flowers!
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