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Floral DIY

We have tons of floral DIY ideas and tutorials including: paper wedding flowers, bouquets with swords, origami, and even 8-bit flowers. We also have ideas for DIY succulent terrariums, flower crowns, and more! Get flowery, paper-y, or fashion-y with your wedding florals!

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Make pretty layered flowers for your wedding out of cardstock!

For our Alice in Wonderland wedding reception, we wanted to have flowers from our colour scheme in teapots for centrepieces; however, flowers are expensive and we’re aiming for a budget-friendly celebration! To counter this, my partner and I created 60 red, white, and black flowers out of cardstock. The project cost us less than $20 (not counting the cost of secondhand teapots).

yarn poofball centerpieces alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

How to make yarn poofball wedding decor in three easy steps

There are other yarn flower tutorials out there, but my method requires the LEAST amount of materials, and once you’re done there are SO many ways to use these poofballs as decor!

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How to make your own succulent terrarium centerpieces

I have a total hard-on for succulents, seriously you should see my balcony it’s crazy out there. Anyway Dragon Lady once showed us her monster movie wedding invitations and now she’s showing us how she made her succulent terrarium centerpieces.

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How to make semi-kanzashi style fabric flowers (part 2)

Tribe member Midgetgem has three different and equally awesome fabric flower making tutorials. So please to enjoy part two of a three part, fabric flower series and keep an eye out for part three in the upcoming weeks! -Megs

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How to make semi-kanzashi-style fabric flowers (part 1)

I’m looking to make my bouquet for my wedding myself, and so I’ve been brainstorming ideas on how best to put together fabric flowers for this purpose. This tutorial is based on some flowers that I started making a few years ago — the folding technique is Japanese (Tsunami Kanzashi).

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Beaded flower tutorial for your beaded floral bouquet!

Ginny is kind of awesome for putting together this beaded flower tutorial so that you kids at home can make your own beaded flower bouquet! Dig in and see how it’s done!