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DOLLAR TREE DIY | SPRING FLOWER BASKET

Jun 09, 2021
Everyone welcome to my channel today we are going to put together a really beautiful Easter bouquet and these are just some of the elements that I have established that I am going to use to make this and in addition to that, I am also going to make a kind of pedestal or a span for place it and that's what I'm going to use this here for, so what I decided I wanted to do is go ahead and make my pedestal. First, I don't normally need this to make the bouquet, but I feel like this is going to set the stage, so when I'm putting together my bouquet I'd like to go ahead and have this stand already. prepared, so let's go ahead and start doing that first, but before we do that I just want to tell you about some of the things that I chose to make this DIY and I may end up adding some things as I continue or maybe I won't use everything this, but you know, of course, I'll let you know as I do it what I'm using and what I'm not and I'll also put all the items that I use in the description. box below now i got two packs of this excelsior and i'm sure i won't use both of them but i wanted to go ahead and get an extra pack to use later.
dollar tree diy spring flower basket
I also have some of these really nice ones. butterfly embellishments and I would like to incorporate that into my bouquet as well and then the

flower

s that I chose for my bouquet. I actually got them on my last Dollar Tree haul, but I got two of each type of

flower

and this is the first flower. then I have a very pretty little lavender flower here, I have some pink wildflowers and then I have these very pretty yellow flowers that are called crocus, the other ones were just labeled as wildflowers, so those are the flowers that I'm going to work with and then I'll also use this Easter

basket

first.
dollar tree diy spring flower basket

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I thought I might paint this, but I think I'm just going to leave it purple. I think it will be very pretty too. I also have some of these floral foam blocks that I'm going to use. I have some e6000 glue and then I also have brown spray paint and I'll show you that later I bought at Walmart and that's what I'm going to use on my pedestal the Insta head, let's go ahead and start and first I'll do my pedestal, so, as with anything, whenever you use e6000 glue, you want to be sure. that when you stick it let it stick for 24 hours so this project may take you a couple of days just so you can have time to dry it now while it's drying you can go ahead and start on your bouquet and put it together that's perfectly fine , but I'm going to go ahead right now and paste this, wait, what I'm going to do is take my clear glass plate and turn it over and you want to find the center of that, now this glass and the plate, of course, came from Dollar Tree, everything but my glue and paint, and you're going to find the center of your plate and where you want it to be now you can mark. this if you want or you can just look at it and you know I'm in these people like to look at my stuff so I'm going to go ahead and paste this in and even if it's a little bit off, it's not going to be noticeable.
dollar tree diy spring flower basket
I think it's going to be sturdy enough that it won't cause a problem, so what I'm going to do is make sure you wash the plate and clean it really well so there's no trash or anything left behind. on top and I'm going to put glue around the bottom of this glass and these glasses are pretty flat on the bottom so you don't have to worry about it not being able to stick to your plate and I like that because this is a very heavy glass and very sturdy, okay and then I'm going to turn it upside down and I'm going to place it right in the center so I'm going to let it sit like this for 24 hours and then I'm going to come back and paint it with my brown spray paint okay now my plate is completely dry with the e6000 glue and I'll take it outside and spray paint it and whatever spray paint I have.
dollar tree diy spring flower basket
I'm going to use this multicolored rust-oleum texture and I wanted to do a brown because I wanted to cover this but I also want to give my project a little bit of height and I think it will enhance it, but I don't want it to detract from the flower arrangement that I'm making. so go ahead and spray paint this and let it dry and then I'll go ahead and work on my flower arrangement okay so this is what my little petal shop looks like now that I'm done with the mint spray paint you'll see that there are some edges that are a little darker.
What happened was when I spray painted this, I tried to do it in the morning and it was too cold and it was too windy and a lot of paint ended up running so I had to take paper towels to wipe it all off and start over so I ended up believing that some areas were a little darker than others and I probably could have put another coat here. but overall I still think it's okay because the style I'm going for is rustic and woodsy outdoors, kind of an antique look, so you know it's not perfect, I actually think it adds to what I'm going for here, but Just to let you see with this paint the texture that you get with it and then it almost looks like some kind of piece of metal or a piece that maybe has rusted a little bit or something like that and what I ended up doing.
I was also going to leave my

basket

purple, but instead I painted it too. You can still see a little bit of purple in it and that's okay because it's not a big deal that I like about having this to set up. a pedestal is that you can put things on your table around the base of it to continue decorating and you will see once you have all this put together how beautiful it is going to be and I like to elevate a lot of our decorations because it gives it a more three dimensional look and As I said, it just leaves more room for other decor, so anyway this is what I consider the dirty work: getting your stuff ready, so the dirty work for this is already done.
Getting this out of the way and then I'll start working on my flowers in just a minute, okay, now the fun part begins. I'm going to go ahead and start filling my basket. I have my little foam blocks here that I'm going to use you can see how they come apart you get them in a package at Dollar Tree like this one so I bought two of those and what I'm going to do is I think I'm going to line up my First place a basket with a little bit of this green Excelsior and then I'm going to put my foam in the center and work from there, so I'm going to go ahead and do that, so I'm going to start with this for the right.
Now I'm going to have to cut one of these off and I'm going to trim it a little bit to make it a little bit thinner so I can get it in here because I think we can pack them up. pretty tight by the end, I think I'm going to try to put some little square pieces in here just because I want to fill this completely, so it's pretty nice and packed in there, and then I'm just going to take the rest of this and just stuff it around. I don't really want to put it on top yet because I'm going to have to have room to put my flowers and I can always fill these spaces up a little.
Later, okay, I'm going to start with a bundle of each of these and I'm going to go ahead and start cutting them out at the bottom, so now I'm going to start placing my flowers where I think if it's going to look pretty, you're okay, so I have room to put some more here. I want this to look really full. Now I'm saving this little spot here and you'll see why I'm going to do that. just a little bit okay so the reason I left this little hole here is because I want to insert this little thing here that I made last year and I'll insert a tall card into the video as well as put a link in the description box below if you want to make yourself one of these, but this one was just a cute bunny, but a bunny crawling like in a little flower pot, so I thought it would be really cute to incorporate it into my little flower arrangement here and I.
I'm going to place the pot here like this, you can always secure it with a little glue if you want, but I don't know if I want to keep it there. Maybe I want to move it and you. I know I'm going to put it in other decor pieces later, but I think it looks really pretty in this flower arrangement, so I'm definitely going to put it in there, so I think it looks really pretty and you know, this is supposed to be For me, anyway, I want to look like something that's sitting outside on the corner of an old fence somewhere and, you know, some things that someone threw into a corner, like a little basket, wildflowers started growing out of it. her and a cute little bunny, you know.
I got caught playing with the flowers, so anyway this is what it looks like and then I'm going to put it on the pedestal, which I really like having these skewers here because I can always add things to them and stick them here and whatever I want. What I'm going to do is put the butterflies on the skewer, so I'm going to take this and I'm going to wrap the wire around here. You could spin your butterfly. Some want it to look like it's flying somewhere and I. I want to stick it low enough that the stick here isn't the main thing you're looking at, so I found these little things here and decided to stick them there and see how they look.
I'm not really sure if I like them or not. Let me know if you think it looks better with or without them at the moment. I'm going to go ahead and leave them here and then I'll move on. Go ahead, give me a couple more butterflies. All I want to make is one of each color. Here is my reindeer mouth. I'll see what it looks like so I can fit some in here. Okay, you'll say this is the finished product. I think I really like having the willow

tree

s in the back and I like the butterflies.
I think sometimes they do this long after you place the flowers, it's like the little touches you add are what make the difference, like me. I said if you want to make yourself one of these cute bunnies, you can click the link in my description box below to watch that video, you'll see how I made it and as for the basis of this, you really don't have to have it. As a base you could use a regular plate but I like this because what I'm going to do is put some decorations on the table under this.
I have a little hedgehog that I think I'm going to give up. at the bottom you can also have this setup just add a little more greenery around it if you want you know you have a lot of different options but I like the fact that it's elevated and you have the opportunity to add more. decoration around it, so anyway I am very satisfied with this project. I hope you enjoy today's video. Thank you very much for watching and see you next time, bye.

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