Use a variety of colors and blooms for your crafts.
Silk flowers come with many creative uses besides traditional flower arrangements or decorative wreaths and other home décor items. You can use silk flowers for other handmade crafts, using the entire flower including part of the stem or just the flower petals. Silk flowers make wonderful craft ideas because they're long-lasting and come in every flower and color imaginable.
Instructions
Flower Hair Bands
1. Pull the silk flower off the stem and remove any leaves or greenery attached to the flower. You do want to leave the small wire stem on the flower that is about an inch long, as this is used to attach it to the hair band.
2. Attach the silk flower to the elastic hair band by wrapping the stem wire around the hair band as many times as it takes to secure the flower. If there's a sharp wire end sticking out, press it in gently using a pair of flat-nose pliers.
3. Cover the wire using colored ribbon that matches the silk flower. The ribbon should be thin--about one-inch thick. Fold down one edge of the ribbon and glue it to the bottom of the flower near the stem with your hot glue gun. Wrap the ribbon over the wire stem and glue the other end of the ribbon down with glue.
Flower Garland
4. Pull off the stems and leaves from your silk flowers and separate each layer of petals. You may need to use wire cutters to remove the stem completely. Depending on the type of flower, each one should give you between two and five layers of petals.
5. Lay the petal layers side by side, overlapping slightly. Dab a bit of glue from your hot glue gun on the back side of the petals to attach to a petal of the flower next to it. Continue in this manner until all silk flowers have been attached in a line, such as in a garland.
6. Glue rhinestones or other types of flat-backed beads to the middle of each flower to cover up the small hole that once contained the flower stem.
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