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ayashi in weddingplans

Ribbon roses!

Jul 06, 2009 09:28

Just wanted to share the ribbon roses that we (my mom, FMIL, twin sister/MOH, 1 of my bridesmaids, and FH) made. It was so much fun and it is kind of hard to believe this is after a solid 4 or so hours of work (well, my bridesmaid didn't arrive at the beginning so she was only there for about an hour, but still). There's still a lot to be done ( Read more... )

flowers: do-it-yourself, do it yourself, flowers: alternative, flowers, flowers: artificial

Comments 23

clarinutty July 6 2009, 14:16:24 UTC

Is there a link to how to do this? Those look amazing!!!

ayashi July 6 2009, 14:24:54 UTC

I actually found a link from someone in this community :) clickclick_bang posted here a while ago and I looooved them. She made hers bigger than we did haha, but her original post and link to instructables.com video on making them.

It was a lot of fun but definitely picks up as you learn how to do it. Well, maybe it isn't like that for everyone, but I haven't crafted something by hand or used a needle in probably 8 years XD; My fiance turned out to be the star of the afternoon and was making them much better, much faster, than almost anyone else there haha.

clarinutty July 7 2009, 01:07:43 UTC

How long of a ribbon did you need for each rose? Also, what width? Thanks!

ayashi July 7 2009, 01:12:47 UTC

We used mostly 1.5" (the wired ones you can see that are the peach color are 2" and would have worked just fine if they were all that big... I would not use anything smaller than 1.5" though) and I think it was about 1 yard/rose (varied a bit since we weren't all cutting the ribbon at exactly that, but I think that's about the average) :)

in_the_starlite July 6 2009, 14:51:35 UTC

Those look awesome! I would totally do that instead of real flowers if I had the patience. :P

ayashi July 6 2009, 14:57:58 UTC

Haha, the thing that eventually drove me to do it was the price! We can make hundreds of these little buggers (well, each rose... not bouquets haha) and I bought about $50 of ribbon from bbcrafts.com :x

kimmykinz July 6 2009, 15:19:19 UTC

Omigosh how creative!! I absolutely love them! :D Time well spent, for sure!

ayashi July 6 2009, 19:23:00 UTC

Thank you! It was tons of fun making them. I'm not normally a "craftsy" person but I have been wishing I could work on them all day while I've been at work XD

clumsily July 6 2009, 15:35:08 UTC

Until I saw ribbon & looked again, that looked so real! Nice job! :)

ayashi July 6 2009, 19:23:07 UTC

Thank you! :)

bicyclegasoline July 6 2009, 16:16:39 UTC

Beautiful :)

ayashi July 6 2009, 19:24:02 UTC

Thank you!