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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