Rosy Spring Topiary

By: Nancy Keslin from Nancy Keslin Designs

Bring the beauty of spring into your home with this Rosy Spring Topiary. Made with beautiful paper flowers, this handmade topiary makes a lovely addition to your spring decor. This is a fun and easy project that anyone can make, and once you get into the groove of making these cute paper flowers, you might not be able to stop! Make flowers in any color you'd like and put this fun topiary on display in your living room or on your mantel. For a spring decoration that you can use year after year, try your hand at making this cute Rosy Spring Topiary.

Primary TechniquePaper Crafts

Easy

SeasonSpring

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Materials:

Core'dinations Signature Series Graphic 45 paper pack
Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge
3 ½ inch STYROFOAM ball
Dowel rod
White flower pot
STYROFOAM disk
Lavender satin ribbon
Preserved moss
Sand It gadget
Hot glue

Instructions:

Select three colors of Core’dinations cardstock for your paper flowers.
Using the Cricut electronic cutting machine and the Flower Shoppe cartridge, start creating a ton of flower die cuts. I cut each of the spiral flowers to 2.5 inches. I was able to get 16 flowers per sheet of cardstock.
Assemble the flower die cuts. Each assembled flower should measure approximately 1 ¼” across. You don’t want to roll them too tightly.
Sand each flower to expose the lighter core of the paper, as well as open up the flower.
When you complete the sanding process, begin gluing the flowers to the STYROFOAM ball in a random pattern.
If you would like to make a double DIY topiary, cut the dowel rod into multiple pieces. The lower rod should be 12 inches and the top rod 3 inches. Stick one dowel rod into each of the flower balls and then the shorter lollipop into the longer. Place the STYROFOAM disk into the flower pot and then the lollipop flower through that.
Add some moss to the top of the pot to hide the disk.
Add a pretty satin bow to the base of the DIY topiary flower ball.