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The best part? The flowers will never die!
I made this for my grandmother for mother's day out of things I had lying around the house ^-^

Posted by Scarlet from Stafford, Virginia, United States • Published See Scarlet's 46 projects »
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  • How to make a bouquet. Inky Garden - Step 1
    Step 1

    Clean out the flower pot and paint it. Then let it sit to dry as you work on the rest.

  • How to make a bouquet. Inky Garden - Step 2
    Step 2

    Have another flower pot of the same size ready. Line the inside of it with plastic wrap so the foam doesn't stick to the pot. I no longer have the packaging, so I'm not exactly sure what it was called, but I used one of those foam-in-a-squeeze-can things that expand once you squeeze it out...I've seen them used to seal windows before. Anyway, fill up the pot about half way (because it will expand a lot), and then let it sit and harden.

    This was just a picture I searched up online so you'd know what I was talking about ^-^''

  • How to make a bouquet. Inky Garden - Step 3
    Step 3

    Draw a big blob with a sharpie in the middle of a coffee filter. Then drip water on the blob and watch the colors spread out across the filter. Add more sharpie and water as needed. Do this to all the filters, then set them aside to dry.

    P.S. if you use non-primary colors, you'll see your blob start to spread out into the primary colors in the one you chose! Yay for chemistry!

  • How to make a bouquet. Inky Garden - Step 4
    Step 4

    Take the caps off your pens and hot glue the end of a ribbon to the writing end of the pen. Wrap the ribbon around, adding glue periodically, and finish it off at the top. Do this for all your pens.

  • How to make a bouquet. Inky Garden - Step 5
    Step 5

    Hopefully by now your coffee filters have dried (and if they haven't, you can use a hair drying to speed that up). Pinch one together in the center, and twist it a bit. Then hot glue that to the top of a pen. You can add a bit more ribbon to it if it doesn't glue well.

  • How to make a bouquet. Inky Garden - Step 6
    Step 6

    When the paint on the flower pot dries, put the (also hopefully dried by now) foam into it, and stick all your flower pens in. Then decorate as you wish with glitter, sequins, paint, etc!

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