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Welcome March! The month that will bring spring to us bit by bit, and with it, wild flowers and green leaves. In March, we will also be doing some decoration changes in our house, adapting it to spring, filled with fresh and lively colours.
This month, we will begin bringing together new ideas to renew our decorative objects and give our living room a new vibe. Today we will show you one of these ideas: we’re going to create a decorative botanic pyramid, so you can show it off on your best piece of furniture. Apart from adding a new floral touch, you can incorporate a small light so when it gets dark it becomes an ambient lamp.
For this craft, you can use one of our cool little boxes and customise it however you like. Get some wild flowers and a couple of books… We’re getting started!
A super post with the collaboration of Esencia Gráfica.
Materials:
- Cone box for parties
- Flowers and wild leaves
- See-through rigid plastic. You can use the top of these boxes.
- Led Light
- See-through glue or hot glue
- Box cutter and scissors
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Double sided tape
- Heavy books
- Paper sheets
Step by Step:
1 – Choose some wild flowers and small leaves and put them in sheet of paper a folded in half. Then, Put the paper in between the pages of the heavy books. Next, put a few books on top, so the flowers and leaves are dried out and flattened. You might need 3-7 days for the flowers be completely dried out.
2 – For the pyramid to stand upright, cut the tabs that close the box with the box cutter.
3 – On the four sides of the box, draw and cut out a triangle that will later be a window.
4 – Now draw and cut out four triangles on the rigid see-through plastic. These triangles must be exactly the same size as the sides of the pyramid.
5 – When the flowers are completely dry, carefully take them out from in between the pages of the book and stick them on with see-through glue (or hot glue) on the plastic triangles that that you cut out in the previous step.
6 – Put double-sided tape on the edges inside the triangle frame in order to stick each plastic triangle.
7 – Assemble the box, properly folding every side and placing the flaps together to close it. If you need a bit more glue to close it, apply a drop of hot glue.
8 – Set the pyramid down vertically and put a led candle inside, as a candle holder.
See you next time. Have fun redecorating your own house!
