Hello, Friends! Marilyn here with a tutorial on preserving the bride's bouquet after the wedding. My tip: make sure your flowers are dried before using a dried floral preservative.
Shadow Box Keepsake
Here is what I used:
Here is what I used:
I hope you enjoyed todays tutorial. As always, comments are welcomed and appreciated!
~ Marilyn, Marilyn's Cricut Crafts
Shadow Box Keepsake
Here is what I used:
- Shadow Box. Mine is 8" x 10" and was purchased in a set of three from Michaels.
- Vinyl - mine is brown to match fall wedding colors
- Dried Floral Preservative - used to preserve the color and texture of the wedding bouquet flowers. I used Gemini Masterpiece Dried Floral Preservative purchased at Hobby Lobby for $5.99.
- Hot Glue / Hot Glue Gun
- Designer Paper Scraps - left over from the wedding invitations and bridal shower
- Cricut Cartridges - Beyond Birthdays, Doodlecharms and Storybook
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| Bridal Bouquet Shadow Box |
- Spray your dried flowers with Gemini Masterpiece Dried Floral Preservative. Do this outside, this stuff is potent!
- Cut background paper at 8" x 10". I used ATG to tape right on to the back. The designer paper was used in the bride's wedding invitations.
- Heart = cut image and shadow at 5 1/2" from Cricut Doodlecharms [heart] found on page 85 of the folder. Paper is again from the bride's invitations and decorations.
- Glue and Hot Glue flower petals onto the heart.
- Pearl band around heart - the pearls came from a roll purchased at Hobby Lobby. We used the pearl strands originally on decorations for the wedding reception. I just hot glued here and there to attach.
- Bead Swatch - came from bride's bouquet. I hot glued a portion onto the background. A small flower blossom is attached to the top.
- Date = cut date (10 19 13) at 1 1/2" from Cricut Storybook cartridge. Shimmery Paper is from banner paper used at the bridal shower.
- "love" = cut from brown vinyl and attached to outside of the glass. Cut came from Cricut Beyond Birthdays cartridge and was cut at 2", [love] found on page 132 of the folder.
Christmas OrnamentHere is what I used:
- Clear Christmas Ornaments - set of 12 purchased at Hobby Lobby for $7.99
- Dried Flowers from the bridal bouquet
- Ribbon
- Pull top of ornament off and insert flower petals. I used tweezers to move the petals around to my liking.
- Tie ribbon to top. Ribbon from wedding decorations.
I hope you enjoyed todays tutorial. As always, comments are welcomed and appreciated!
~ Marilyn, Marilyn's Cricut Crafts
Just gorgeous!! Love these ideas for preserving the bridal bouquet!! Wish I would've thought to do something like this with mine.
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ReplyDeleteMarilyn, on December 8, 2014 we buried my younger sister. She was beautiful and lovely. I have a beautiful yellow rose that I would like to preserve in her memory. Being it is so close to Christmas I would like to use your ornament idea. Would I need to spray it with the Gemini Masterpiece Dried Floral Preservative before inserting the petals into the ornament and are there any other instructions to preserve the rose petals? Thank you so much for this beautiful idea. Vickie Scholl
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