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| Flower wall decor out of stucco aluminum sheet. |
This decorative piece was wrought out of left-over aluminum sheet from the DIY Large Royal Crown project I made last Christmas as I do have the habit of saving excess materials.
Materials used:
~ aluminum sheet
~gold craft wire
~gold spray paint
~perfume bottle cap (alternatives: small round mirror, crystal drawer handle, etc.)
~a pair of scissors
~a pair of pliers
~glue gun
~glue sticks
I have to make sure I will not run out of scraps so I first made a pattern out of paper and found out that I can only make room for five bigger-sized petals. So I cut them by using just a pair of scissors as the material is really easy to handle.
Afterwards, I laid down the cut petals and the tiny bits of the aluminum sheet left and made a smaller paper petal pattern for the inner ring. I had to make sure the pattern would fit the smallest piece of the scraps left for me to work with.
When all the petals has been cut I did some ruffly edge on them with tiny pair of pliers.
For the accent at the center I thought it was time to use the crystal-ly, sparkly perfume bottle cap I've been saving for a while.
I cut a round piece of aluminum and made a hole at the center where the cap would fit as this would serve as its holder as well as the 'bone' of the flower where all the petals would be glued down.
At this point I got engrossed at gluing everything down I failed to take pictures, I just used the handy-dandy glue gun to attach the petals down the round aluminum. The bigger-sized petals came first followed by the smaller ones- everything held up pretty well.
I also pulled out my extra gold craft wire to make some additional accents that I attached around the bottom of the crystal cap using hot glue.
After finishing the flower, which didn't really take that long; I thought I'd use the little bits of the scraps left to make climbing leaves to extend the design.
I then gold-bombed the leaves with gold spray paint to create contrast and tie up with the gold wire accents. I then hung it up on my wall using a wire tied up at the bottom of the cap at the center of the flower.