Kusudama Bouquets, Wands & Wrist Corsages
Irish Barlaan ♥ Enrico Lopez
October 19, 2013
Wedding theme: Back to school
Wedding colors: Blue & Yellow
Materials: maps, colored specialty papers, printed papers, crystals, beads, pencils, paint brushes, ribbons
Another first for me -- making kusudama flowers. These kusudama flowers were very tedious to make -- lots of paper cutting, folding, gluing! Seriously, they were really hard to make - very time consuming & requires a lot, I mean A LOT of patience. Thank you to my mom for helping me out in constructing the flowers. I couldn't have finished all of them in time without you.
I made 9 kusudama bouquets -- 1 MoH, 2 mothers, 3 bridesmaids, 3 secondary sponsors. Then 3 kusudama wands for the flower girls, and 6 kusudama wrist corsages for the female principal sponsors (ninang). Each flower is made of 5 petals. 1 bouquet consists of around 20 flowers, a wand consists of 4 big flowers, and a wrist corsage consists of 3 small flowers. So just imagine how much work all of these required. whew! :) But the end products? they were all worth the hard work :)
The "before"
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| had to make lots of flowers! |
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| these were just the first batch! |
The "After"
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| kusudama bouquets used 7-8pcs of pencils for the handle of each bouquet |
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| top view - kusudama wand |
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| lots of flowy ribbons so it would look cute when held by little flower girls |
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| this was the first design (but we decided to revise and remove the crayons) long PAINT BRUSH as handle for the wands |
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| top view - kusudama wrist corsage |
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| used checkered ribbons to resemble school uniforms |
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| stretchable bead bracelet for the wrist corsage to fit any wrist size |
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Hi! I'm making my own Kusudama bouquets, boutonnieres, and wrist corsages and I was curious as to how you attached the flowers to the bracelet if you don't mind my asking? I've been having problems trying to figure out how to do it. There's no tutorials tat I can find that shows how.
ReplyDeleteHi Katrina,
DeleteWhat I did was I used a glue gun to attach the flowers to a piece of felt cloth.. i then wrapped the piece of felt cloth, overlapping the edges onto the bracelet, sealed with glue gun again..
Hope this helps! thanks for dropping by ;)