Crepe Paper Flowers in A Nail Polish Mesh Vase ;)

by Shevy.gale

3 Materials

4 Hours

Medium

Many times I come across DIY flower crafts, and I always have the urge to try them.

This time I did ;)

crepe paper flowers in and nail polish mesh vase

In order to create the flowers I used crepe paper, metal wire, green tape, a hot glue gun and pliers.

I had some green leaves laying around that never came in to use, so I used them to add some color and life..

using the pliers I bent the edge of the wire

I cut petals in different sizes.

using a hot glue gun, I stuck the petals on to the wire turning as I go, I started with the smaller petals and slowly about 4-5 of each size moved on to the larger ones.

I was quite satisfied with the way the flower came out.

I then wrapped the wire with green tape,

and glued on leaves.

now came the question how can I hide the stems..

so I decided to paint my glass vase with the trendy nail polish trick I've seen all over Hometalk posts.

I filled a bucket with water, poured in the nail polish and swished it around with a toothpick to get a nice marble look.

Then I took the vase and dipped it into the paint, BUT once I got half way down, the nail polish that floated to the top finished and I was left with a very pretty vase, but only half way dipped,

but I wanted the vase not to be clear so the stems of my flowers won't show,

so without much thought, I tried turning the vase and getting the nail polish to cover all sides, but it started getting messy, and lost the marble effect.

I took my fingers and started to rub the nail polish around and I ended up with a interesting vase, that I quite liked, BUT my hands were FULL of nail polish, and I was out of nail polish remover icon

so after trying alcohol and scrubbing my hands with soap, I ended up going to sleep with nail polish all over my hands :)

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Donna Makowski on Jul 02, 2021

Reminds me of the crepe paper flowers we made back in the 70’s!!!! Cute idea!!

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MsTiff on Jul 16, 2021

Your flowers turned out beautiful! How many different sizes did you use and did you use a stencil or freehand the petal shapes?

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