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Fabric Punched Bouquet

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Martha and Marcie McGoldrick, holiday editor for Martha Stewart Living, use simple craft punches to make fabric flowers for a beautiful springtime bouquet.

Fabric-Punched Bouquet

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Bring the beauty of flowers that never fade into your home with this surprisingly simple craft. Our trio of vintage-style keepsake bouquets includes pink violets, blue hydrangeas, and purple-and-gold pansies.

Tools and Materials

Lightweight fabrics, such as voile or Indian cotton,
Tray
Medium paintbrush
Liquid fabric stiffener, at crafts stores
Petal and leaf craft punches
Micro hole punch
Floral pips (small wires with colored tips used to make silk flowers), at crafts stores
Contact cement
Floral wire
Wire cutters
Green floral tape
Floral tape
Vase (optional)

Fabric-Punched Bouquet How-To

1. Begin by punching fabric flowers: Lay a piece of fabric in a shallow tray. With a medium paintbrush, apply enough fabric stiffener to saturate, but not soak, the fabric. Let it dry, about 1 hour. Repeat with any remaining fabric.

2. Using craft punches, punch out petals and leaves as close together on the fabric as possible.

3. Using a micro hole punch, make a hole in the center of each bloom. Slip a pip through each hole, and secure it with a dab of contact cement.

4. To make a stem, cut a length of floral wire, and wrap it around each pip with green floral tape.

5. For leaves, glue floral wire to each one to create veins and stems. Wrap stems with floral tape.

6. Gather blooms and leaves into a bouquet, and either tuck them in a vase or wrap the stems in more floral tape to join them.

Resources
Special thanks to Marcie McGoldrick, holiday editor for Martha Stewart Living, for demonstrating this project from "Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts." Martha and Marcie used craft punches from Martha Stewart Crafts, available in our Martha Stewart Shop.

For more great projects, check out these floral-inspired crafts.

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