When you think of spring, the flowering dogwood tree pops into mind. Who doesn't love seeing the dogwood tree's profusion of beautiful spring floral displays almost every where you go after what seemed to be a long, dreary winter!
To welcome spring, have I got a fun upcycle project with a dogwood theme you have to try! Can you imagine creating a beautiful dogwood stem using soda can aluminum and a craft flower punch? Yes, that's right! I'm going to show you how to cut, punch, paint faux dogwood blooms out of soda cans using a flower punch! How cool does that sound! Here's how!
Supplies you will need:
- Clean Aluminum Soda Cans
- Utility knife/craft knife
- Craft Scissors
- Flower Petal 3" punch
- Needle nose pliers
- All purpose quick dry adhesive
- White Chalk, pink acrylic craft paint/brush
- Skewer stick
- Green faux stamen
- Floral wire
- Coat hanger
- Floral tape
Instructions:
Carefully cut off the top end of a clean soda can using a utility knife. Be careful! You may want to wear gloves for this as a precaution, but I've cut lots of soda cans and thank goodness, I have never had an accident with the sharp, jagged edges.
to form the dogwood flowering shape.
Once the stamen is wrapped add Quick Hold glue around the base . . .
and begin adding on the bracts. one at a time . . .
in a cross design . . .
until all four bracts are glued on.
Make four more this way.
Add floral stem wire to center back of the leaves using glue. Then connect the leaves to the stem wire using floral tape . . .
Cut thicker pieces of wire from a coat hanger for the main stem. Wrap with floral tape adding the smaller leaf stems and dogwood blooms . . .
for a decorative look!
Welcome to our monthly DIY Challenge hosted by Terrie @Decorate and More with Tip! On the first Wednesday of the month, Terrie hosts a DIY Challenge with a group of talented bloggers who love to create budget friendly décor for their homes. For the month of March, we were tasked with creating a Spring Upcycle DIY.
If you're coming over from Liberty @B4 & Afters, welcome! To see more upcycle ideas click on the blog titles below to check out their awesome upcycle creations!








