Quick Tip! Embellish your Quilted Ornaments with Flowers
Want an easy and beautiful way to embellish your quilted ornaments? How about flowers?
Here are a few quick ideas:
Poinsettias make a lovely topper to any Christmas (or even just winter) ornament! You can find them in all shapes and sizes and they can be used in many different styles, from traditional to very modern! Check out the scrapbooking embellishments, or the Poinsettias in the floral department at your local craft store. (We also carry the perfect size in The Ornament Girl Supply Shop.)
You can also use flowers to create a pretty focal point, hide raw ends and messy parts of your ornaments, like in these Prairie Point Pinwheel ornaments.
This pretty daisy came from a sprig of artificial flowers from the craft store. If you pop out the plastic stamen, you can pin your flower down easily (just like the poinsettias above). For this one, I doubled up with 2 daisies, and pinned them right over a ribbon bow with a pearl pin, but you can also use crystal beads or sequins:
Your flowers don't always have to be the main attraction.... you can also tuck one into your bow, like in this ornament. (Here, I left the stem on an artificial orchid, and then pinned through the stem, so the flower sits just to the side of the bow for a tropical touch.)
And, of course, you can create a beautiful arrangement of color for your ornament. This ornament was featured in The Ornament Girls Club as a fall ornament. I glued 3 different flowers in varying Fall colors, to bring out the colors in the fabric of the ornament:
I hope these inspire you to use flowers to embellish your own ornaments!
(Or, if you've already done this, please share your picture with me - I would love to see your ideas.)
p.s. I have lots more embellishment ideas right HERE.
The use of the simple flowers dressed up the balls a great deal. I now feel that in the future I will definitely use some added decoration to enhance the fabric covered balls. So simple but truly remarkable with just that little something!!!
Beautiful
I use flowers on a lot of my ornaments. I put some small ones on some of the Easter eggs where the beads were added where the bands meet. I have gotten a lot of “teeny” flowers (1/2” to 5/8”- like the ones on the heart ornament) on eBay that come from China. The delivery time has been only about 2 weeks. I have found some, as you said, in the scrapbook section of some stores; but I have recently found small ones in the bridal section of Michael’s that are used on favors!!
Cute ideas. Am I only one who couldn’t open the “here” icon on bottom of page. It says 404 Page not found! Love looking at all the ideas!
Whoops! I am sorry about that. I just fixed the broken link. Thanks for letting me know!