I think this is my favourite letter tutorial of all the ones I did. There’s something beautiful about letters absolutely covered in flowers! For the best effect, choose beautiful fluffy, large petaled flowers. We chose daisies but you could also use carnations, hydrangeas, or even simple moss!
What you’ll need:
- Wire letters from Typo at CottonOn
- Florist’s foam (available at Spotlight)
- Florist’s wire
- Plenty of your favourite bloom.
Step One:
Using the floral wire, create a structure for your foam (so it has something to hold it in place).
Step Two:
After soaking your foam in water as instructed on the packet, cut it down using a knife and fit it into your letter frame.
Step Three:
Sculpt the foam to the shape of your letter using your knife. It doesn’t matter if it looks a little ugly right now, you’ll cover it with blooms!
Step Four:
Begin pushing your flower heads into the foam. If you have trouble not crushing the flowers, prepare a little hole with a skewer. Make sure you tightly pack the blooms so that none of your floral foam shows through.
Step Five:
Tie a coordinating ribbon to the top of your letter and hang.
I love the look of these on church doors, a tree near your ceremony or even beautiful wrought iron gates. The blooms make the letters look so beautiful and are a lovely compliment to a flower filled celebration.
Photography by Polka Dot Bride
I would love to find a supplier for these wire frames as the link to Swiss Miss goes to Urban Outfitters and they are out of stock! Any ideas welcome – I’ve been searching to no avail.
Me too! I’m been googling and cannot find any suppliers. Our wedding is in May so I’m thinking of a total DIY project – coat hanger wire and jewelry making tools to bend and cut into shape. I would much prefer to just buy the letters though. I have enough DIY projects on the go already…
Please let me know if anyone finds a supplier.
Sorry girls- so annoying that these are now out of stock! (I need to get more for projects!) When I made them they were very much in stock!
I’ve contacted UO to see if they will be back in stock soon and will have a look and see if i can find similar!
Hi ladies, I found the letters at Typo – they didn’t have what I needed, but hopefully some of you will have some luck!
http://shop.cottonon.com/shop/product/wired-letters-13/
Found the A, B or C letter only (from what I can see on their site) here http://www.cheaperoz.com/z/result.jsp?ga=au3&q=wire+letters
Can’t vouch for site, as I’ve never come across it before.
Here’s that link- they only have ABC 123 though
http://www.oo.com.au/3-Dimensional-Wire-Letter-C-_P87681.cfm?AFID=25&cm_mmc=ShopBot-_-HomeGarden-_-HomeDcor-_-HM114742
Hey everyone,
I just got an A and a C from here. Very lucky our names start with those letters as they only stock ABC and 123.
http://www.makeyourhouseahome.com.au/product/3318/60452/industrial-wire-frames/
Good Luck!
A. x