Hi friends, starting this year's projects with Nature's Craft celebrating new life!
Recently on a holiday in Goa I chanced upon a fallen branch of a coconut tree with half a dozen weaver bird nests attached to it.
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| Coconut Tree |
Weaver Birds are nature's amazing architects and just look at their beautiful nests!The nests you see in the photograph below is actually hanging high up on the coconut tree.This particular coconut tree in our resort had at least 2 dozen weaver bird nests!
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| Weaver Bird Nest |
The nests which had fallen to the ground along with the tree branch were fortunately empty and I like to think all the baby weavers are flying happily over the beautiful green fields in Goa!
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| Weaver Bird Nests |
We couldn't spot a real weaver bird but most of them are yellow in color so I added a cutie yellow bird to the nest!
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| Altered Project |
And some pomegranate!
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| Pomegranate Pollen |
And a golden yellow butterfly amidst the flowers!
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Golden Butterfly
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A yummy gorgeous addition [ a treasure I got from the local market]
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| Yummy Pollen |
How to make an easy Floral Branch
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| Floral Sprays |
Since my nest was a natural one and I think taken a bit of wear and tear as it had been on the ground for some time it was rather friable.I didnt want to subject it to a lot of heat from the glue gun so to add flowers to the nest I made a floral spray.
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| Flowery Branch Tutorial |
Sharing a simple tutorial on how I made it! Store bought flowers ,leaves and pollen with floral wire stems are the easiest materials to make a floral branch.
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| Easy Flowery Branch Tutorial |
Take 2 flowers and keeping one slightly above the other simply twist their stems together.
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| Easy Flowery Branch Tutorial |
While you twist you will have one stem longer than the other. Keep adding more flowers, leaves and pollen by twisting the stems.
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| Flowery Branch Tutorial |
Its so easy to create a beautiful floral branch by just twisting on flowers and leaves!
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| Flowery Branch Tutorial |
Just give yourself enough floral stem length when you add new flowers to the branch you have already created as that way you can twist and turn the flower or leaf to adjust its final position when you add your branch to your project!
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| Flowery Branch Tutorial |
Once you have a desired floral branch ready you can go in and add more pollen/ leaves or flowers in gaps by simply twisting them in! You dont have to touch a glue gun at all!
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| Flowery Branch Tutorial |
To add them to my nest I used bits of floral stem wire and wound it in and out of the nest gently and twisted it loosely to secure it! Since my floral branch goes around the nest's full length I secured it in several places.
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| Chipboard Hearts |
I added 2 birds to my nest and 2 gorgeous chipboard scroll hearts!
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| Quilled Butterfly |
So many flowers need a beautiful big butterfly...so here is my quilled butterfly fluttering by!
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| Altered Nest |
I hope you liked my Altered Nature's craft , a gift from nature !
Supplies : Cheery Lynn Butterfly
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