Reassembled Flowers

Here's a great way to use all those old fake flowers that are almost free at garage sales and thrift stores!  Reassembled flowers make great gifts and can be used to embellish anything....just about anything you can think of......

 

Here's how: First, find some silk flowers that inspire you. It is good to have at least a few different flower choices, and ideal to have a larger selection of flowers so you can get your combinations just right.

Then narrow it down to a combination that inspires....

....and take those flowers apart. Save the leaves and all the extra pieces. Of course you can change it around later if you want to...

 

 

 

                         














Now an extra little side-track:   If you want you can use some gossamer-light fabric, tulle is nice, or even some lace. Cut it in a 4" X 2" strip. You can vary this size to suit your design of course. Fold it in half the long way and glue the sides together with little teensy dots of hot glue .

Gather and glue the ends together. I can't stress enough how a little bit of glue will go a long way....as small as you can possibly get it....

 

Glue down any flappage.

Using a very tiny amount  of glue again, glue the bottom edge to itself until you have just a tiny hole left in the middle.

Use some metallic spray paint on the little plastic pieces that you set aside earlier...

I'm inserting the smaller gold piece into the larger one....that may be fancier than you want to get though!.

Now we put it all together!  Lay out your flower as you would like to have the finished piece...

 Starting from the back and using the tiniest bit of hot glue you can get away with, go ahead and glue your pieces together, large pieces first and then the smaller pieces....

 Put that green piece on that holds the shape of the flower.....

Put a bead in the very center by blobbing a spot of hot glue (not such a tiny amount this time, a medium-sized blob, about the size of a small pea), put your bead on a pin and put it in the glue you just blobbed, and pull the pin out.

Put your leaves on and you are done!

...And if you don't get it perfect it will look more like a real flower, so give yourself a break. You don't want them thinking that a machine made it!