Tuesday Tip: Flower Vines

by Steph


Flower Vines By Karen Shady


Materials required:
1 pack of Kaisercraft paper blooms (must have wire stems).
Paper leaves with wire stems
Florist wire, florist tape, skewer, wire cutters.

1.    You need to have all your supplies ready, and on hand before beginning this project.


2.    Take 3 pieces of florist wire approximately 10-15cm in length, and wrap the top half of each around the skewer to form the tendrils.


3.    Begin with one of your tendrils, just below where the spiral stops, place the start of the florist tape, on a slight angle, and begin to twist it around the wire


4.    After a few twists, introduce one of the flowers, and repeat the twisting until the flower is secure, then add a leaf.  TIP: stretch the florist tape slightly while twisting, it will hold better on the wire

5.    Repeat this process, adding leaves, flowers and tendrils until happy with the overall look. Continue the florist tape to the end of the wire, and cut the end.

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14 comments

1 Vicki { 05.31.11 at 8:06 am }

S T U N N I N G Karen:)

2 Kirsty { 05.31.11 at 8:54 am }

Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!!

3 Ramona Barrry { 05.31.11 at 9:50 am }

Karen Shady does it again. good grief! so so so so clever.

4 Nerrida { 05.31.11 at 10:01 am }

Love this idea – who needs Prima (LOL)

5 AdrianaB { 05.31.11 at 10:51 am }

great idea thanks for sharing :)

6 pearl { 05.31.11 at 12:09 pm }

gorgeous flowers! thanks for sharing! i love working with wire too. i recently worked on a project wrapping wire around a skewer too as tv antennas! great minds think alike! :)

7 Al Hannah { 05.31.11 at 12:17 pm }

Wow Karen, you are so clever … that’s amazing. The flowers look gorgeous! You think you could make me some :) x

8 Kerryn { 05.31.11 at 12:52 pm }

They look fabulous!! TFS :)

9 Lesley { 05.31.11 at 1:07 pm }

these are brilliant.

10 Evgenia Petzer { 05.31.11 at 5:01 pm }

super cute idea!

11 Karen { 05.31.11 at 9:20 pm }

awww, thanks everyone for the ‘ego boost’ :) LOL Ramona, you always make me giggle :) AL !! as if you arent brilliant already, and could make these standing on your head :)

12 Debbie Marcinkiewicz { 06.01.11 at 12:22 am }

FAB tutorial … thanks for sharing :)

13 Alanna { 06.01.11 at 1:16 am }

Ooooh… fabulous!

Where do you buy these said materials? The florist?

14 Karen { 06.01.11 at 10:06 am }

Alanna….. the materials can be purchased at spotlight or lincraft :) ….. the flowers are Kaisercraft, and the leaves are just from my LSS… any leaves will do, as long as they have wire stems :)

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