Tin Can Flowers Wreath Copycat
One of my favorite past-time is looking at upscale online stores to get inspiration and ideas on how to re-create an item for far less than what they're asking!Who doesn't love saving money by making a good knock-off or copycat craft? Take a look at this group of iron roses wreaths I found on Anthropologie and its' sister off-shoot, Terrain:
Right now, they're on sale for $28.50-$43.50, but were originally $38-$58.00. Sale or no sale, sorry, I would never buy a door wreath - especially one that cost this much! They're too easy to make! And having made lots of flowers from soda and beer cans like here, here, here, here, here, and here,
Check out how I made my look for less:
Materials:
- Clean Aluminum Soda Cans
- Utility knife/craft knife
- Craft Scissors
- Flower Petal punch
- Flower paper template
- Ball stylus
- Foam (thick)
- White Chalk, lavender, yellow, orchid acrylic craft paint/brush
- Quick Hold - all purpose quick dry adhesive
- Wire floral hoops - 14" and 10"
How to:
Begin by washing out the soda cans to remove any sticky residue and let dry.
Using a craft or x-acto knife, make a slice near the edge of the can big enough for a scissor blade. *CAUTION: Be very careful handling the sharp edges of cut cans.
Using craft or old scissors, cut around top or bottom to remove.
Then cut through the length of can to . . .
remove the remaining end. Finish sides by cutting off any slivers or jagged edges.
Next, insert the aluminum can piece into the flower puncher to punch-out one large flower with five petals!
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I was able to punch out four flower petals per can.
I think I used 15 empty soda cans (which I got from my son) for this project. But I lost count.
Since the base of the flowers were larger and had more petals, I had to make a paper template to manually cutout . . .
enough larger flowers to fit around the wire wreaths.
Next, paint flower petals with white multi-surface acrylic paint first to cover lettering that's on the back and to help with adhesion of the acrylic paint colors. Let dry. The petals will take on a different feel and texture, almost leather-like, by painting them!
Then, paint the flowers three different colors and let dry.
The colors of the wreaths at Anthropologie were quite muted with what looked like blemishes throughout. But I wanted to have more vibrant shades for mine - so I used lavender, orchid and yellow!
Once dry, roll the top flower petals on thick foam with a ball stylus to mimic the dimensional look of the top petals. You can also use the end of a cooking utensil or round handle if you don't have a ball stylus.
To assemble, start with the larger petal and then one of the smaller petals, gluing on top, straggling it in between petals. Then glue on the curved shaped petal using Quick Hold contact adhesive from the makers of E6000.
I glued on this one on the wire floral hoop to see how it would work.
And then placed flowers around the hoop. But I didn't glued them down like this, but. . .
glued down each flower separately, petal tip to petal tip, alternating colors.
The wreaths at Anthropologie were pictured individually - a larger one, by itself and . . .
then with a smaller wreath inside the larger one.
I love creating something for less money, and making these wreaths costs me the price of the floral hoops @$3.99 and $2.99 each. The empty soda cans were throw-a-ways from my son which were free! Everything else, I considered free since I already had them on hand. Not bad - if I say so myself!
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Yes I will make one or two I love it
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Thanks so much, Vio! Have fun!
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After researching the flower punch reviews said it would not work on aluminum. You didn't have a problem? Also, how did you cut the large petals by hand?
You did a really great job, love it! I need some clarification, you used a larger 6-petal for the base, then a 5-petal smaller petal for the next layer and then finally another 5-petal that is curled a bit with the stylus, is that correct? So it sounds as though you had cut 54 petals to complete your large wreath. We’re you able to get 4 of the larger petals out of one can also? Thank you in advance for your response!
So beautiful you have done an amazing job. Please tell me where l can buy the flower punch 3".
I'm having trouble finding one.