#flower crown tutorial

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[celestialstarrywitch]

Litha Flower Crown Tutorial

Hello everyone!!! Litha is coming up and to celebrate, I’ve made a flower crown!! It’s fairly easy to make and easily customizable so I thought I’d share a tutorial with everyone since it’s a lot easier than it looks! Whether it’s for Litha, a different holiday, or even just for fun, I hope this tutorial is helpful for you. Here’s what the finished product looks like!

If you want to make one exactly like mine, here are the materials that you’ll need:

-2 pieces of wire

-electrical tape (or any kind of tape that won’t create a goopy mess- I used black)

-3 different colors of ribbon (I used super thin ribbon in pink, white, and yellow)

-5 types of (fake) flowers. For this particular crown, I chose pink, orange, white, purple and blue. The specific flowers I got were; Hyacinth (blue), Roses (orange/peach), Peonies (white), Lilies (pink) and Iris (purple)

-Scissors or wire cutters

Obviously you can substitute the colors, flowers and materials as needed- make it your own!!! The whole point is to have fun while making something awesome.

Some helpful hints:

-Get the flowers at Dollar Tree. $1 for a bunch of 5-6 flowers and they have a huge selection!

-I got the electrical tape at Home Depot. I believe it was around $1.50 and there were tons of colors.

-You can find the wire and ribbon at your local craft store. I got the ribbon for $.79 at Michaels, and there was a huge sale going on so it was even cheaper. The ribbon is super thin which is perfect for this project.

-If possible, use wire cutters to cut the flower stems as there is hard plastic and a thin wire. It’s possible not to (I didn’t), but if you can save your hands some pain and struggling you might as well :)

-If you don’t want to make a crown but still want to make something with flowers feel free to hang this up as a wreath!

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Throughout making this flower crown, clear your head and think of summer and infuse your flowers with thoughts of the sun. If it helps, burn some incense, play some calming music, or say a spell while your flower crown is coming along. This is a time of protection and joy so envision these things as you work on your crown.

Now without further ado, let’s make our flower crowns!!

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Start off with your two wires. You can either measure your head or eyeball it to get the correct size. If you plan on wearing anything bulky, like a hat or an intricate hairstyle, add a few inches or measure with it on. You don’t want your headpiece to be too small. I personally eyeballed it and checked it to my head before twisting the wires together. I made it a little loose (not too much) but enough to where it would stay on my head by itself.

As you can see, the shape doesn’t need to be perfect. As long as it’s in the general shape it will be fine. At this point you’ll want to take a small piece of tape, about 4 inches long (you don’t have to measure it) and wrap it tightly around the part where the wires are twisted together. You’ll eventually want to cover the entire wire in the tape, but do it in chunks so it’s easier and more manageable.

Once again, it doesn’t have to be perfect. This is just giving a base we can attach the flowers to. At this point, you’ll want to have the entire circle covered in tape. There shouldn’t be any kind of sticky residue anywhere, and you don’t want any pieces of tape ends sticking out. Nothing’s worse than getting sticky residue in your hair or on your clothes :(. At this point, set the circle down for a few minutes while we prep the flowers.

As stated earlier, if you have wire cutters this part will be slightly easier, but if not you’ll be 100% fine. Separate each flower and cut as far down as you can to leave a long stem. This will also account for any errors where the plastic and/or wire metal refuses to cooperate. Decide if you want to leave the leaves on or if you just want flowers. Personally, I like the look of leaves so I left them on the stems. There should be one leaf part to each flower, sometimes two depending on the type. Here is where you’ll decide if you want a specific pattern or how you want to add the flowers. I just did what I felt was right and looked the best, and went one flower type at a time. (All the roses first, then lilies, etc). There is no right or wrong way to decide on a pattern!!

At this point, I cut my three pieces of ribbon. I went flower by flower so I cut all the ribbon as I went along. I color coded it so pink was by the base of the flower, yellow was under the leaf, and white was at the end of the stem. You’ll want to double knot it tightly in the three different locations. Once again, there is no right or wrong way to do this as long as you feel it looks good and the flower won’t come off.

As you can see, you want all the flowers to go in the same direction. This is important. If you put them going different directions, the flowers will squish and clash and you’ll get frustrated trying to tie down flowers that are fighting you.

As you go along adding flowers, make sure to keep tying the previous ribbons in. This part is hard to explain but basically you’ll end up wanting the ribbons to be flat against the circle just like the stems. This will help make everything look neat and you won’t have random ribbons hanging every which way. Keep adding flowers how you want.

You can see more of what I’m talking about with the ribbon in this picture. By now your flower crown should be shaping nicely. Keep adding flowers, tying ribbon and shaping your crown. You can obviously stop whenever you feel your crown is complete.

After completing the flower crown, feel free to enchant it with a spell if you haven’t already and want to, or put it in the sun so it can absorb the rays and infuse with the suns energy.

And there you go! A completed flower crown for Litha, or a summer wreath to decorate your home. :) Let me know if there are any questions and of course tag me/comment with pictures of your flower crown!!! I’d love to see what you make!!🌸 🌺 🌹

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How to Make Flower Crowns (Part 1)

I said a while ago I would provide a guide on creating flower crowns and rings. Well, here it is!

✨ Flower Crown Tutorial ✨

Step 1: Collect wildflowers

Daisies & dandelions are most popular, but daisy stems can be stiff sometimes (not often) and dandelions don’t last too long. Get 20 or so. Make sure their stems are long!

Step 2: Pick out the Chosen Flower™

It needs to have a long stem, look pretty sturdy, and overall be a good flower. 

Step 3: Lay Flower 2 perpendicular to the Chosen Flower

This one should be long-stemmed as well, but the stem should also be flexible. If you find it’s not, you can flatten (and therefore flexify) the stem by running your nail over it, while holding it steady between two other fingers (of the opposite hand). Careful not to tear!

Step 4: Move Flower 2′s stem to the back of Chosen Flower 

Step 5: Loop the stem around and to the front

You’ll want to keep stem extras close together. 

Step 6: Repeat!

Make sure the flowers are properly distanced so that stem looping is easy and doesn’t catch petals, but make sure they’re close enough to look pretty and hold together well. 

Step 7: Now you have a flower chain!

While looping, try to keep the flowers facing the same direction so you don’t have flowers facing every which way (sort of like the fourth flower on the right)

Look at that, a flower chain all on our own! I don’t have any more space left, so this is it for this part! Look out for part 2 :)

~Nyx

[saraten]

Autumn Flower Crown DIY

Use wire cutters to cut your arrangement into small useable pieces. These are from a ‘bush’ of daffodils, a sprig of viola, and a garland circle of vines. I had lots left over and made a few flower clips as well. 

Shape floral wire into a circle, bending the ends into a knot or two hooks to latch and unlatch as needed.

Pre-arrange the flowers to get a good flow, think about where they will sit or your head. I’m very tall, so I have more flowers hanging down instead of on the top where they would not normally be visible. I especially like the curly vines coming down the side of my face which also helps it stabilize on my head!

Finally hot glue it all down! (not shown) make sure to glue under and in layers so the glue will not be visible when your done. If you can get finger protectors! like silicon gloves or use tweezers for precision placing. Don’t be me, I just burnt myself a lot like a loser. :s

Wear it like a BOSS to work, to school, on dates, with cosplays and disneybounds Whenever!

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How to make Flower Crowns (Part 2)

We have returned for part 2! In case you didn’t catch it, here’s part 1.

✨ Flower Crown Tutorial ✨

Step 8: Making a double bind

This is used to finish off/make sure flowers are in their proper spot for any flowers that look sketchy. Start off doing a normal loop. 

Step 9: Instead of looping to the stem side, go down and back up around from the left side

Step 10: Bring the stem down again to the right, and finally loop it over to the stem side

Step 11: Use the double bind when closing off the flower chain into a flower crown

Bring your stem ends to the Chosen Flower™, and create a double bind where there is space with a new flower, tying them all together. 

Recommended Step 12: Knotting flowers

You can choose to knot the stem of the Double Bound Flower, to further secure the crown...

Recommended Step 13: Knotting Flowers

...like this! Just go ahead and knot it. But make sure to tug gently when securing the knot, lest your stem breaks. 

And voilà!

We've made a cute flower crown, all by ourselves, without the need of any metal, glue, tape, or anything that’s not flowers and your skilled craftsmanship. 

Next up, flower rings!

~Nyx

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whoop here comes a flower crown tutorial.

uhm, this was mainly for helping @pagandoof with her crown, and this is pretty much just showing how i made mine, but yknow, free use to all.

things used:

fake floral vine

fake flower boquets (yknow those things where like ten are stuck together)

fabic (optional, i used the extra leaves from the bouquets and they worked fine, also what i used in this tutorial)

scissors

hot glue gun

i did it all a long time ago, (so no image of it) but the best thing to start off with is separating the flowers in the bouquets.

first, youre gonna want to get the length of the vine to where it sits on your head (i make them so they are a little big, they stay on better in my experience). be wary of the areas there arent any flowers, cutting where you see fit.

hot glue doesnt stick plastic with plastic, sadly. my remedy was taking the leaves from parts that were not going to be on the crown. it worked doubly well for me since they were close in color to the vine.

however, i had to make a few fixes to my other crown using regular fabric like the kind your shirt is made of, and it holds fine.

snip! cut down the pieces to be ready to use. in this case, it is better to cut them too big rather than too small, as you can snip off any extra after gluing. 

honestly, this is optional but felt very helpful. keep at least one leaf full for later, though.

make the strand into a loop. i did this by tying a knot, and then using my full leaf to glue the two pieces together.

gluing tends to be easiest by placing the leaf under where you are gonna place it, applying glue (not too much, not an itty-bitty-tiny amount), then wrapping the leaf around. 

here, we remove the flower from the stem. i cut them really short due to the fact that there is a wire under that green plastic (which has now left a scar on my hand, be careful friends!), but you still need at least a little of the stem on there.

it might be best to do all these ahead of time, unless you need or want to keep the flowers you dont use on the stem. (i did it with the red ones, because i used them all.)

then, glue the flowers on! using the same technique as with the vine, save for here i made the pieces more perpendicular as opposed to parallel. 

planning out where you are going to put them is optional, but i found it tricky to tell what it was gonna look like until gluing it. i kinda just filled the gaps.

[furekumomoe]

A cute and simple flower crown tutorial that I found online (ㅇㅅㅇ❀)