DUCK Tape....L.O.V.E. part trois

NOW FOR MY FAVORITE!!!!    DUCK TAPE FLOWERS!  Yay!

These bad mama-jammas were pretty easy to make and I'm obsessed at the moment.

Here's what you need:

Duck tape of choice

Floral wire

Scissors

Here's what I did:

1.  Cut out a strip of duck tape and snip about 12 bits floral wires that are 2 inches in length.  For my large flowers I made 6 large petals and 6 small petals.  The smaller flower is just 6 small petals.  Lay your duck tape face up on your surface and lay your floral wire like so.  They are about 1 1/2 inches apart.

2.  Lay another piece of duck tape face down over that and snip halfway between each wire.

3.  Next, you just trim the pieces into the petal shape that you like.

4.  For the 6 smaller petals, just lay the wire ONLY HALFWAY UP the duck tape, cover and snip (sorry I didn't get a picture!).

5. Once you have all of your petals, you can bend them around like so:

6.  Trim your wire down on the larger petals to make it easier to put together.  I didn't start with short pieces because they were just easier for me to handle.  Take your larger petals and lay them together like this (color change!):

7.  Put a piece of duct tape on the top and bottom of the flower.

...top...

...bottom...

8.  Now take your smaller petals and SHOVE them through the center of the duck tape to the other side (you don't have to be a mountain woman to do this).  

9.  Arrange them as you like.

10.  Now, for the center, you can either glue a button on, or take another piece of floral wire and cover the end with some duck tape.

If you do this, just stick it through the center of your flower, too.

11.  Flip your flower over and you will see all these crazy wires sticking out of the back from your smaller petals:

No worries!  Just fold them back towards the flower itself and cover it with duck tape!  

All done!  Glue, safety pin, velcro it to your duck tape bag of choice (or add it to anything else you'd like) and you're done!  

I LOVE DUCK TAPE!

Monday?  Duck tape LUNCH BOX.  HOLLA!