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Three Botanical Crafts to Bring the Outdoors In
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DIY Projects
Three Botanical Crafts to Bring the Outdoors In
Set aside a lazy summer day to make these blooming lovely botanical crafts. Either as gifts or in your home, they bring the beauty of the garden indoors.
1. Making the Cut
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Paper cutting is an easy craft to do on a rainy day when you have time to relax – it’s almost meditative. Trace patterns of simplified, stylized leaves and fronds onto cardboard in different but related colours; trim with fine scissors. To create a 3D effect, layer the cutouts and position them into a pleasing arrangement within an embroidery hoop fitted with a backing of coloured cardboard. When the arrangement is pleasing, glue sections of each leaf or frond to the cardboard backing.
2. Boho Blooms
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A wreath of flowers brings a pretty, poetic beauty to a room and perfectly suits a bohemian decor. Gather flowers and leafy twigs of your choice – they can be dried, artificial or even fresh for an ephemeral decoration. Attach to an embroidery hoop with floral wire and a glue gun. Hang the wreath with a lace ribbon.
3. Full Circle
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Pressed dried flower art is a lovely way to preserve the fleeting beauty of a summer garden. Pick flowers of different sizes and colours; press them flat by placing them in a heavy book for a few weeks. To make the frame, fasten a sheet of vellum paper securely into an embroidery hoop; cut off the excess paper. Using tweezers, position petals or whole flowers on the paper; affix flowers to vellum by carefully applying liquid glue with a brush. Display in a window, where light will filter through the translucent paper and highlight the blooms.
An embroidery hoop is an ideal ready-made frame that gives a nostalgic feel to these projects crafted with summer's fairest florals
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