Learn how to make beautiful flowers in different designs using decorative mesh. A full colorful projects for everyone!
Supplies
6-inch5 7/8 Styrofoam disc
U-shaped floral pins
Decorative meshI used 10-yard rolls in 10-inch and 21-inch widths*
Low-temp glue gun
Scissors
Command Strips for hanging
Instructions
Daisy or Sunflower
Cut mesh into squares, they don’t have to be perfect.
Lay mesh on table and fold opposite corners into the center.
Gather the center with your fingers.
Fold the gathered mesh in half and pin the center to the edge of foam disc, adding glue to the pin before inserting.
Continue all the way around the disc, placing pins close to each other.
When you’ve gone completely around the disc, use smaller mesh in a different color and repeat these steps, filling in the center of the flower.
Variation: The white flower with the yellow center was made using this exact method. The only difference is that after pinning in the yellow center I decided to tuck and pin in the long ends of the yellow mesh, created a puffed center.
Daisy with Tube center
Follow instructions about for the flower petals.
Cut squares of 10-inch decorative mesh and roll into a tube.
Poke a pin through the center of the tube and fold the tube in half, then push pin into the center of the flower (see dandelion video below if you need a visual).
The video above shows you how to create a tube flower, like my dandelions. NOTE: After making the video and creating the flower I discovered that I could apply the glue, push the pin into the foam then push the head of the pin in (from the center of the tube), which in turn pushed the pin in farther and into the glue. Therefore there was no longer a need to use the "hot glue finger thing" ;) to press into the glue. Hope that made sense.
The combo flower
For this flower I used a few different techniques. I used the tube method for the outside of the flower first.
Then I cut a Styrofoam ball in half and pinned orange tubes (10-inch) around the outer edge.
I glued and pinned that ball into the middle of the tube flower on the visible piece of the foam disc.
I inserted some pink tubes, only instead of folding them in half, I only folded the tube down at the bottom because I wanted them to be longer.
Finally I added white deco mesh to the center using the loop method which is described in this video.
Expert Tips & FAQs
If you are wondering how many rolls of decorative mesh you will need for each flower, it will vary depending on the type you make and the size. For one large flower you will need a full 10yd x 21in roll.