Lilac Rose Petals Luminary

I've had this craft in the back of my mind to do for some time.  I saw this post a couple of years ago and thought the rose petal tealights a cute idea. The only problem I had with it was that I thought that they were too small and making a larger one would involve buying lots of flowers to take apart and lots of plastic spoons.  Lucky for me I had a huge stash of plastic spoons left over from when I made spoon flower napkin rings.   Faux flowers can be very expensive, too, especially if you have to buy a lot.  On a recent trip to visit friends in North Carolina, I found packages of rose petals - 100 for one dollar!  Right away I knew that I could finally make the kind of luminary I wanted to.   A  very large one!

Here's how I made it.

 Materials Used:

Clear plastic spoons (100)

Two packs of rose petals - 200 for $2                                        

Craft scissor                                

Tacky Glue

Hot glue gun  

Large glass round container 

LED battery operated flameless candle 

                                              

 1.  First, cut off the handles from the spoons.

 

2.  Next, I started out using tacky glue on the bowl of the spoons to glue the petals on but found this too time consuming waiting for the glue to dry, so I switched to using hot glue instead.  Doing this made it so much quicker.

 

3.  Glue the spoon petals on starting at the top rim.

 

4.  Be sure to overlap the petals.

 

5.  Continue gluing on the petals around the glass.

 

6.  Stagger the next row of petals between the first.

 

7.  Continue staggering each row of petals.

 

8.  Midway, turn container upside down to make it easier to glue the remaining petals on. Leave space on the bottom to glue on a row of plain petals so that the glass container can sit flat on the surface.

 

9.  Insert a LED flameless candle and you're all set!  And it was so easy to make!

Looks lovely inside or out!

Take a little time to enjoy

and

Happy Crafting!