Attack of the snazzy blue boutonnière!

[jellobird1]

Inspired by my friends choice of wedding colors (navy and silver) I made these boutonnières for no particular reason or occasion and now they will collect dust until i make my sis ebay them. I made them out of some quilting cotton that i got in a fat quarter, some floral wire and tape, satin ribbon, hematite beads and small navy blue silk flowers.

[HeartOn]

I love these! I am using silk flowers for my wedding, but I don't know how my dude feels about boutonnieres- if he does want them, I will definitely have to remember these for inspiration!

Did you sew wire into the leaves?

[Lindsay517]

Those are seriously cool! They would look so great on a tux, much better than a cheesy carnation.

[islandfly]

oh noo!! these are soo lovely!! i especially like the leaves and how the lines match almost puuurfectly!!!

[ruby_soho]

these are so pretty.  i'd never thought of that color combo, but i love it!

[the head vampire]

Wow, those are lovely! They give me all sorts of ideas for brooches. I'm curious too; how is the wire attached to the fabric?

[jellobird1]

I was inspired by this martha stewart post...
http://www.marthasweddings.com/portal/site/mslo/menuitem.3a0656639de62ad593598e10d373a0a0/?vgnextoid=c2dc775edeca3110VgnVCM1000003d370a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default&rsc=image_7&autonomy_kw=boutonnieres
but as I was using it some of it just didn't come out right and I ended up improvising. Here's what I changed
1: I didn't use suiting fabric because it didn't stand up as well as a nice crisply ironed cotton, nor did it come in fun stripetasticness
2. I saved some time and scraps by making the leaves with 2 lines of symmetry (same shape top and bottom, same shape L and R) so that i could just cut out a leaf shape, cut it in half, flip it upside down and use it as the other half of the next leaf.
3. The link I posted doesn't say how to do the flower part, so here's what I did: i took the stem and stamen out of each bloom so there was only the petal part left. With thin floral wire i strung 3 beads and poked it through the little hole in the center of the petals. Then, using florist's tape i wrapped the fabric leaves to the bloom-on-a-wire nice and tight. Then to finish i epoxyed the satin ribbon around the new "stem" and tied a bow at the top. voilà!

[arcadian green]

Those are really cute and different. I was also thinking of navy and silver for my wedding colors. 

[Banga]

Hey! That is the same Martha Idea that inspired my wedding boutonnieres! Too funny!

[cowgirlz101]

  Those rock my dear! omg! U are such the creative crafter! I guess all those paint with water and crayola crayons must've worn off on ya!

(mom)