My sweet little granddaughter just had her first birthday and we celebrated this past weekend at a party in her honor. My daughter asked me to help out by making some decorations for her “cute as a button” birthday party. Did you see the invitations that I made? Since buttons were the theme of this party I made a paper flower centerpiece with button centers for the buffet table.
I made it by first cutting out a lot (and I do mean a lot!) of flower and button shapes using my Silhouette Cameo.
Once all of the flowers were cut and assembled, I hot-glued them onto jumbo-sized bamboo skewers.
Then I took a leftover piece of a 1″ x 3″ board and marked 2″ increments with a dot of a marker.
Next, I drilled holes at each mark using a drill bit close in size to the skewers.
Once I had all of the holes drilled, I cut down 1/3 of the skewers by about 3 inches, and another 1/3 of the skewers by about 4 inches.
I cut them to different heights so that all of the flowers could be seen. Shortest in the front row and tallest in the back row.
After I was happy with the placement of the flowers, I took them out so that I could paint the 1 x 3 board. I used leftover lime green paint. Now how many people can say they have leftover lime green paint??? Acrylic craft paint would work well also ; )
And here’s the birthday princess sitting in front of her colorful paper flower centerpiece. I also made her dress and fabric flower headband.
But I can’t take credit for the cake. Isn’t it sweet!
I had to include one more photo of the princess in her birthday dress. It’s McCalls pattern – M7037 if anyone is interested. Warning: it’s fully lined and has a zipper. But if I can make it, you can too!
This centerpiece is so very pretty Jeanie! (And your granddaughter is adorable!)
Your granddaughter is absolutely precious! And that dress is definitely princess worthy :). Love the flower centerpiece! The skewers were a great idea to “plant” them.
Aww, thank you Candace! We simply adore her ; )
These are adorable. What fun! And your grand daughter is beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing this activity with us at the Inspire Me Mondays Link-Up!
Oh your grand-daughter is precious! I love your flower centerpieces with the buttons. That cake is to die for too! Found you on Wonderful Wednesday.Good job on the dress too! 🙂
Thank you Raquel!
This is so sweet! I love the colors.
The whole theme of the party is just perfect. Thanks so much for getting back so fast w/ help on the dress.
This is a new pattern so there is little advice out there. I think u will get a lot of ??? On it. I made the bodice w/ flower cotton print, lots of pink w/ tiny green leaves. I used green cotton for the waist band and pink tulle for the ruffles.
Being lined made it easier, no hemming, no facings. The ruffle seems to be the problem. U said u used less ruffle, about how much less, if u don’t mind telling? The other dress same pattern done in red, she too used less ruffle. I used the full amount, it comes out to 17 feet of tulle for each ruffle, yes u read that right 17 feet. It fits very easy but it is full.
This is what I hoped I could post w/o being out of line on your blog
The 72in tulle does exist I only found rougher kind. So here’s my 2 cents. Get the reg. 60in get 2 yds exact, open it up and refold the opposite of the salvage and viola u have 72in. Place pattern on fold and cut u have very little waist. BUT!!! U will need to buy 4 yards total cut in 2 yard increments. If u get 2 1/2 yds refold it the half of yard extra is waisted. Tulle is cheap get the 4 yd
Your little princess in her petty pink party dress is so lovely that it inspired me to get sewing.
Thanks for the tip Lee! And you’re not out of line at all ; ) I’m happy that I’ve inspired you to get sewing!