Fall brings us beautiful colors, pumpkins, hay rides and flowers! I love the fall weather, just cool enough to wear a sweater and nice enough to sit on the front porch swing. Every time we go to the pumpkin patch they have cut sunflowers for sale in large French tin vases. I just love the way they look and smell! It’s one of my favorite spots to sneak off to while the kids are playing nearby with their dad. I just drink in the scent and beautiful blooms! I can’t resist touching the petals and I always bring a bunch home! Since pumpkin patch time has arrived, I got to thinking about all the fun and many memories we shared in the prior years of going. One of my fondest memories is of the sunflower bouquets in those tall silver flower pots lined up on hay bales just waiting to be scooped up!
While thinking about these memories I decided I would fire up the Pazzles Vue and recreate those memories in a more permanent way. One of my favorite things about the Pazzles Inspiration Vue is that, if you can think it up you can create it! The projects I’ve made with my Pazzles have brought our family much joy, giggles, fun and lots of new traditions. This project will only add to those traditions and memories.
To recreate the French tin vase, I enlarged the Coffee Cup project file. I added a few extra elements so it looked more like a French vase rather than just a large coffee cup. I also used the Sunflower cutting file found in the Craft Room. I added one more layer to the flower and chalked and glued all three layers together. Then I crushed the whole flower in my hand. I curved some of the leaves and bent others. This gave the flowers a “real” appearance. I love the fact that the cutting file has irregular petals, only adding to the realistic look of the flower. I stipple painted the center of the flower with black, gold and white paint to give it some dimension. Then I added a stem and leaves to it. I’ve included instructions in the link below.
Once the vase and flowers were completed. (I made 8 flowers) I arranged them and then tied them with a bow. I added a little rice to the bottom of my vase to weight it and to keep the flowers in place.
I am putting this arrangement on one of my coffee tables. I am thinking I might get some sunflower scented spray and give them a sprits so I can relive the stolen moments in the “sunflower” patch.
Click here for the PDF instructions for the Sunflowers
~Heidi
Supplies:
Craft-T Chalks
Black, Gold and White paint
Lovely Heidi, will go perfect with Fall decorating.
This is so pretty! I love the vase.
This is awesome! It’s “feels” like autumn and has the beauty of the season. Thank you for the great design tips. I’d like this for my fall decor in my house.
Beautiful flowers & vase, Heidi!! I truly love sunflowers in the Fall.
If I could be so bold, I’d like to make a suggestion on your instructions (as well as to all other CR Featured Projects’ instructions): please put your name and the date it was posted on the PDF. That way, we can go back to the blog if we need to. Thanks!
Happy and refreshing for fall. So pretty Heidi.