Kanzashi is a Japanese ornamental hairpin for women and made by folding delicate squares of silk into three-dimensional flower petals.
This is my very FIRST flower and I'm in love! I can't believe I've never seen or heard of them before.
Here is the corsage. I just need her to try on the bracelet to see if it fits. If not, I'll use ribbon to attach.
And my son's boutonniere.
I did mess up a few petals but overall it was pretty easy.
Center flower
Supplies:
Ribbon - 1 1/2 inch
Lighter - I used both a cigarette lighter and a long BBQ lighter.
Scissors - Use material or quality scissors. It makes it so much easier.
Ruler (optional)
Hot glue gun
Jewel stickers or beads
Cut ribbon into squares. I cut them a little larger and trimmed off excess. You can use a ruler if it's easier.
One color ribbon - 1 1/2 inch
7 ribbon squares
First fold corner to corner to make a triangle.
Hold in the center and take each end and fold up to meet at the point of the triangle.
Pick up and fold in half.
Trim end and use a lighter to melt together.
Trim bottom.
Use a lighter to melt the area in the square first and then let the petal open up and melt the two sides.
Open and round out the petal.
REPEAT SIX more times.
Hot glued petals together and hot glued the jewel in the center.
Bottom Flower
Supplies:
Ribbon - I used two different size ribbon by mistake but it worked out perfect.
Red- 1 1/2 inch
White - 2 inch
Lighter - I used both a cigarette lighter and a long BBQ lighter.
Scissors - Use material or quality scissors. It makes it so much easier.
Ruler (optional)
Hot glue gun
Jewel stickers or beads
Cut ribbon into squares. I cut them a little larger and trimmed excess off. You can use a ruler if it's easier.
First fold corner to corner to make a triangle.
Then fold in half to make a smaller triangle.
Place the smaller red triangle in the center of the larger white triangle.
Fold in half.
Trim end and use a lighter to melt together.
Trim bottom and use a lighter to melt together.
CLOSED PETAL - use a lighter to melt together.
OPEN PETAL - Open center and melt around the edges.
Attached petals with hot glue.
After I made the two flowers I decided to add more petals to the bottom flower and add tiny pearl stickers. I also made another smaller flower to place on the side.
I love how they turned out!
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