Petal Pusher

I saw this really awesome display piece on Pinterest (below)

                                                                     Source: everydaymomideas.com via Nicole on Pinterest

and decided to make one of my own! You can read the tutorial for better pictures and step by step instructions. But here's a quick summary.

Supplies
- Floral wire
- Scrap paper
- Glue gun
- Branches
- Vase

How To
1. Cut floral wire into ~3in strips
2. Cut scrap paper into leaves. Try to keep them a similar shape. I ended up using a template I made out of some light cardboard. If you keep the leaf shape similar, it will look better.
3. Glue one cut wire strip between two leaves. I chose to use different paper leaves so the pattern is different on each side.
4. Lay down a strip of hot glue with the glue gun on the back of one paper leaf.
5. Press the wire into the strip of glue while it's hot so that half of the wire is pressed in the glue and the rest of the wire stick out like a lollipop.
6. Then place another leaf over the wire to sandwich it between the papers.
7. Trim the edges of of the leaf sandwich so that you don't see any of the overlap.
8. Repeat this until you have the desires amount of leaves
9. Attach your leaves to the branches with the floral wire. Add as many leaves as you want!
10. Arrange your branches in a lovely vase and now you have a wonderful display.

I took the liberty of making three different leaf sizes, a big fat round one, a long skinny one, and a tiny baby one. I used papers with all sorts of patterns like stripes, floral and polka dot and textures like glittery, velvet and shiny.