I'll make up a instruction/supply sheet and post it on Tuesday. I'd post it sooner, but I'm elbow deep in a project that I need done for tomorrow Thanks for the lovely comments. I know there is a tutorial for paper trees under the resources tab, perhaps that will help in the mean time.
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Sun, Apr 25, 2010 @ 5:18 PM
This is great!! Love it
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Here are the instructions as promised, hope this helps
Instructions for Topiary
Materials Needed
1. Small clay pot
2. Small and large Styrofoam ball
3. Prima flowers or other paper flowers
4. Large flower punch and small flower punch
5. Ribbon
6. Wooden Dowel
7. Straight pins
8. Seed beads or small pearls for flower centers
9. Glue
10. Patterned paper, green cardstock
11. Tacky Tape
12. Circle Cutter
Instructions
1. Place small Styrofoam ball in clay pot with a bit of glue to keep in place.
2. Color wooden dowel with ink or paint.
3. Poke dowel into Styrofoam ball in pot; be sure not to poke all the way through.
4. Poke large Styrofoam ball on other end of dowel; be sure not to poke all the way through.
5. Using large flower punch, punch flowers from patterned paper, do the same with the small flower punch.
6. Layer stick pin as follows; seed bead/pearl, small punched flower, prima flower, large punched flower. Ruffle petals as desired and adhere to large Styrofoam ball.
7. Cover ball completely with layers flowers. Fill in gaps with single prima flowers and a stick pin to hold in place.
8. Place Styrofoam ball upside down and pour a little glue into hole, adhere to wooden dowel. Put a little glue in hole in small Styrofoam ball in the clay pot.
9. Cut circle from green cardstock roughly same size as pot opening, poke hole in middle of cardstock circle and adhere to rim of clay pot using tacky tape.
10. Push wooden dowel through cardstock circle hole and into hole in Styrofoam ball in pot.
11. Attach ribbon to rim of pot using tacky tape and use another piece of ribbon to tie bow around wooden dowel.