Very Easy DIY: Flower accessoires

Hello to all the lovelies out there,

After reading my friend Kelly's post, I wondered why not do a DIY blog post for you guys too?? We actually went together and shopped for all these amazing materials in SSP (Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong) and had so so so much fun. Since I went and purchased a lot of fake flowers  I realized that it would be great to show you how I did a few of my pieces.

This would be perfect for people who aren't really crafty yet still want to make something special for themselves or a friend because the process of making these accessories are as simple as gluing things together.

So these are the four different items that I have created with the fake flowers I bought (and I still have quite a bit left) with around $200HKD along with the accessory pieces which means that this is not only just an easy process but also very affordable. 

All the materials you would need:

1. A pair of decent scissors (normal paper cutting scissors would do)
2. A glue gun
3. Glue sticks for the glue gun
4. Fake flowers (both with wire or without wire would work perfectly fine)
5. Any accessory piece that you would like to make

Since I don't want to make too long of a blog post, I would show you the two different methods of how I make them instead of the step by step of every piece since it is really easy.

So first one is the flower comb accessory piece. 

As you can see, this piece only requires a comb accessory base and wired fake flowers, you can always use the comb bit that came off from a previous accessory piece and it would work just fine. The tips and tricks for this accessory can work on any piece which has holes in it and that you would be able to conceal the wires when the whole piece is done.

As you can see in the picture above, I literally just twined the wire onto the top of the comb and seriously this is ALL you have to do. Just two things that you want to pay attention to:

1. Twine tightly - You don't want to do the twining too loose or else the flowers would not be secure and they would move around
2. Hide ends of wires - You would also want to make sure the ends are hidden in the twines you created or else when you put it on the ends of the wire might catch your hair and might ruin your nice hair do.

So this is the finish look!!! 

The next method is the only method I use for the rest of my accessories and basically what you do is GLUE everything on.

All you need to do really is either apply the glue onto the accessory or the bottom of the flower and place the flower onto the accessory. As for my own preference, I tend to put it on the bottom of the flower so it would be easier for me to control in where the flower would go. Three tricks that you would want to know:

1. Trim your flowers - You would want to trim the bottom parts to make it easier to stay on a flatter surface, also if you like, you can trim the petals a bit so they can look the shape you want them to be.
2. Cover all traces of glue - I chose to glue my flowers facing both directions so it would give it a fuller and more packed feeling to it. But if you are looking for something more simple then you can just have the flowers facing upwards, just make sure you really trim off all the access bottom bits that you don't want.
3. Vary from flower sizes - This is a little trick that I would use when I am using relatively bigger fake flowers because they tend to have gaps in between them no matter how hard you try to fit them together, the outcome won't look good as well. This is where the smaller flowers come in, you would first place the bigger flowers onto the accessories at where you want them to be first and then you use the smaller ones to fill in the gaps, this would give the accessory more dynamic and you won't have weird holes in between which the glue might be seen.

So these are all the tips and tricks I have for you today. I hope you enjoyed this little DIY and would have inspired you into making little things of yourself and maybe even being a last minute gift you make for your amazing mom since you have no clue what to make!!

With lots of love,

Janice <3