DIY Flower Crown

This week we're having maternity photographs taken by SierraStorm Photography and in preparation for the fun, I'm creating a faux flower crown!

I thought that you might be interested in how I created this little masterpiece, keep on reading if you want to learn more!

The first thing I did was visit my local craft store, which is Hobby Lobby. I went down every aisle of the florals to see the different colors and styles of flower. I chose ones that looked the most life-like and in off-white and pinks, plus some greenery.

List of materials:
​Scissors and wire cutter
Floral wire
Floral tape
One vanilla colored Rose
One step of pink small flowers
One step of peach medium flowers
One step of greenery 

The first step I did was to pull out some of the floral wire and wrap a couple strands together to form the base of my crown. I made sure that it fit on my head properly.

Next, I cut all the blooms off their stems. I made sure to leave enough stem to attach them to the wire base. I mostly used my scissors, but needed my wire cutter because there was at least one wire embedded in the faux flower stems.

I decided to arrange my blooms how I wanted them before attaching them to the base, that way I could rearrange them if I didn't like my first creation. Once I was happy with the arrangement, I took a couple photos to help remember how they were arranged and referenced the photos as needed.

I started with the far left small pink flower and took a strip of floral tape and wrapped the flower to the base. Make sure to stretch the floral tape to activate the adhesive. I also find cutting smaller pieces more helpful because I could always layer more if needed.

I slowly built up the layers of flowers, working left to right, wrapping floral tape in certain places so that the flowers looked correct from the front and side.

I went through and cut all the leaves off my greenery so that I could then add them to my flower crown base.

I added each little bunch of leaves to the base just like I did with the blooms, working left to right, making sure I overlapped enough that the view from the side hid the floral tape.

There were a couple extra little leaves that I added with the blooms to complete my faux flower crown.

I hope you liked this little DIY that I've created and I hope that you will have some fun and try it for yourself!