Preserving Flowers into a Christmas Ornament

It's flower season!  My daughter just went to Prom a few weeks ago and I wanted to preserve her corsage into a Christmas ornament.  If you want to preserve your own flowers, I have bulbs ready to purchase here.

fresh corsage after prom

I prefer the glass fillable ornaments I can normally find at my local craft store but it's not the right season to find those now.  However, I did find these plastic ornaments on Amazon. 

fillable ornament

I cut apart pieces from the corsage

stuffed the ribbon in first

I put the ribbon in first.  Since my daughter wanted to preserve the corsage, I only took some of the flowers off.  Normally, I would have stuffed all of them in.  I used a wooden dowel to ease the flowers in the bulb. The finished ornament is below.

I wrote the event on the side with a permanent marker

Ornament Video below:

 

Recent Projects

Again, it's been a while since I've posted but just thought I'd pop in to show some of my recent projects.  Mostly resin work, of course. :)

Tracing real leaves on rubber stamp mat.



After using lino cutters to carve: 
completed stamp.  I've been stamping this
one on out-going packages.

Custom ring dish order with ferns and white larkspur.

Pink crab apple flower buds from my garden for
 another custom piece.



Using up little leaves that I've pressed for
 a new ring dish.



Added solar lights to the back garden.
It's not so spooky anymore.  :)

Playing with pigment color for a new
dish design.



I'm hoping to post again soon!
♥Katie