I finally finished up our Mother’s Day gifts for my mom and for my mother in law.
So if you are reading this moms, click away now!! 🙂
This year I thought it would be fun to incorporate pictures of their grandkids and make something they could display on their desks and look at every day. Â And who doesn’t love to get “flowers”?!?!
So here is how I made
Grandma’s Paper Bouquet.
First I had to make the paper flowers. Â I’ve made these before but thought I would share how to make these again. Â I cut my strips of paper (and punched cute edges, if you want), then accordian folded my strips of paper with about 1/2 inch folds. Â Then using a glue stick, I glued all my strips together.
For my 4 inch flower I cut 2 inch wide strips and it was 18 – 24 inches long.
For my 5 inch flower I cut 2.5 inch wide strips and it was 24 inches long.
For 6 inch flowers I cut 3 inch wide strips and it was 24 inches long.
Make sure you glue all the ends together so you end up with a circle. Â Gather the middle together and push down so it will fan out your flower. Â Then you glue it. Â Hot glue I have found works the best to hold it together. Â I add hot glue to the middle and then attach the center of my flower. Â I do it to both the front and back of my flower. Â You will have to hold it for a couple seconds until it holds.
I made up all the flowers I would need for my bouquet.
I hot glued the flowers onto skewers and sucker sticks and then stuck them into my styrofoam.
To see how I made my box with the styrofoam and moss see here.
I gathered my pictures and cut out the faces. Â I attached a pop dot to the backs of my pictures so they would “pop” off the flowers and add some dimension.
Then I added the pics to the flowers.
I decided my plain white box needed a little something and had my friend cut me out some vinyl to make it more personal.
I think it turned out cuter than I had imagined and sure hope the Grandma’s think the same.
This worked out great for our Grandma’s since they only have a few Grandkids, if you have a lot of Grandkids in your family, you will need a bigger planter!!  🙂
I think this gift would go perfect with a handprint bouquet card like we made last year!
I hope all you moms are able to enjoy a wonderful relaxing day this weekend and all those dads have something special planned!
Happy Mother’s Day!
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Aw, the flowers turned out really cute! Happy Mother’s Day:@)
What a great idea! I still haven’t figured out what to do for my mom and moms-in-law!!! This is so cute… you may have just given me my inspiration! Thanks! 🙂
Rachel from FarMorePrecious
So cute! You’re right who doesn’t love flowers and those are adorable!
Super cute!! What an awesome idea for grandma!! Love it!!
What a creative idea…thanks for sharing! This would be perfect to link-up to my new series – “Create It Thursday.” It’s live now! http://www.lambertslately.com/2013/05/create-it-thursday-1.html
They turned out so cute!
You’re so creative Lizzy, those are adorable! Way to Go!