Felt Flower Ornament

11.22.2014

Day 11 of 12 Handmade Ornaments is here, which means it's the penultimate day of this series! It's so rare that I post on the weekends, but since this series is running for 12 days in a row, that necessitates weekend posting. Needless to say, I'm planning on taking it nice and easy next week - probably just one post. It's Thanksgiving week anyway, which is a good one for taking a break!

Also, before I get to the tutorial for today's ornament, I just want to remind y'all that tomorrow (Sunday), a LINK PARTY will be going on when the last ornament posts go up. Now it's your turn to link up your own handmade ornaments! Show off your creative skills :). Since we know not everyone has started their Christmas decorating yet, we're keeping the party open for a couple of weeks to make sure you have a chance to add yours. Many of us will be showing off our favorites in the coming weeks, so don't miss this parTAY!

Now it's onto today's ornament: a felt flower! This simple, pretty little ornament was kind of a spontaneous creation. I was actually planning on making a snowflake, but once I got going with this one I realized I was actually making more of a flower, so I decided to go with it. It turned out way cuter than I had pictured and it was really easy to make!

You only need a couple of supplies for this:

Felt
Scissors
Petal template
Hot glue (not pictured)
Wooden craft piece (not pictured)

First off, I made a petal template out of some card stock. There's no magic formula to this - it was more of a trial-and-error sort of thing. I folded a piece of the card stock in half and then cut a half-petal shape out of it just like you would do if you were cutting out a paper heart. Does that make sense? I trimmed the leaf shape until it looked the way I was envisioning. Then I traced it six times onto the felt for the six petals...

...and cut them out.

To give the petals their 3-D shape, I put a dab of hot glue at the base of the petal and then pinched it together.

That left me with six petals to glue together.

I arranged them so that they looked like a flower and then glued the very bottom edge to the underside of the wood craft piece.

It's quite a dainty little thing, and I think it would be pretty simple to put a bunch of these together quickly. It would be really fun to make several different petal shapes in various colors, don't you think?