Floral Pouch

Adorn a plain fabric pouch with flowers and you have yourself a pretty place to stash crafts supplies, makeup, or other odds and ends. Look for fabric pouches at your local craft store.

Supplies

• Plain zippered pouch

• 1 finished ranunculus

• 2 large rolled mums made from 1½˝ x 9˝ strips of felt

• 3 small rolled mums made from 1˝ x 6˝ strips of felt

• Two 1˝ rolled roses made from 4˝ x 4˝ squares of felt

• 8 small light green leaves

• 2 medium green leaves

• Cardstock or cardboard that fits inside your pouch

• Hot glue gun and glue sticks

FLORAL POUCH

STEP 1: Attach the medium leaves. Glue the two medium leaves to the back of the ranunculus, angling them so they point up and out facing opposite directions.

STEP 2: Shape the small leaves. Add a drop of glue to the center of each small leaf near the bottom and pinch the sides together. Leave some space at the bottom of each leaf.

STEP 3: Make the leaf pairs. Glue the bottom ends of two small leaves together, forming a V-shape. Repeat with the remaining small leaves.

STEP 4: Attach the ranunculus and leaves. (Before completing the next steps, it’s a good idea to arrange the flowers before gluing them in place. Place the cardstock inside your pouch to prevent the glue from seeping through the fabric). Glue the ranunculus in the center of the pouch. Attach the small leaf pairs near the base of the flower, pointing each one toward a different corner of the pouch.

STEP 5: Attach the remaining flowers. Glue a rose and small mum in the top right corner and a rose and two small mums in the bottom left corner. Add the large mums to the top left and bottom right corners, tucked closely against the ranunculus.

STEP 6: Finish. When the glue is dry, remove the cardstock from the pouch. If any spaces could benefit from an extra leaf or two, add them!

TIP

You can use fabric glue or hot glue for this project. High-temperature hot glue would work better for this than low-temperature glue. Fabric glue will give you more wiggle room to adjust and rearrange the flowers than hot glue. No matter what type of glue you use, be liberal with your application. You don’t want to use so much glue that it comes out from under the sides of the flowers, but you want them to really stick.