Today I’m sharing how to achieve a feather bouquet with just a few materials and a couple hours of free time.

What you’ll need:

• At least 2 packages of craft feathers
• Bouquet holder with round styrofoam top
• 24 gauge wire
• Glue gun and glue sticks
• Pliers and wire cutters
• Bling additions (optional)

Directions:

*Note:  If you’d like the handle of your bouquet decorated, I would start with that.  The feathers will be kind of hard to work around once they’re all in place.

1. To begin, insert feathers into the bottom part of the bouquet holder. Once you’ve got the bottom all filled in, set your project off to the side.  I set mine in a glass while I worked on the remaining steps.
   

   Step 1: Insert feathers into foam bouquet holder

2. To make the feather blooms, hot glue two feathers so that they face each other (save your fingertips, let the glue cool a couple seconds first).  Once the glue has dried, wrap wire around the bottom of the feathers.
   

   Step 2: Make feather blooms

   Continue to add feathers (approximately 6-8 more) using hot glue until you get something resembling a blooming flower, and once the glue dries, wrap a little wire around the bottom to help hold it all together.

   

   Adding more feathers

   

   Wrap wire around bottom of bloom

3. To add some bling to the bloom, simply put some hot glue in the middle of the bloom, stick the bling into the glue, and hold it until it dries.
   

   Step 3: Add some bling!

   Note:  If you think bloom is looking a little sparse, just add a few more feathers until it’s fuller.

4. Next, take your bloom and push it straight into the styrofoam and fill in around the bloom with feathers covering the styrofoam.
   

   Step 4: Insert feather bloom into foam

   

   Add filler feathers around bloom

5. Continue steps 2-4 until you create the desired number of blooms (I did five), and fill your bouquet in until it’s nice and full.*Note:  I used a little hot glue for the feathers that didn’t readily push into the styrofoam.
   
6. Sit back and enjoy all your hard work!

Feather bouquet with bling

Multiple blooms with bling

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