So fun and fast to make these beautiful balls using decorative paper punches! Every year I like to have a “girls” holiday party, and what would a party be without a party favor, these are this years party favor!
Or maybe a bowl of the flower balls to match your decorator!
Materials:
- Decorative punch (I using a flower punch)
- Card stock paper
- Glass seed beads in coordinating colors
- Sequin pins: gold or silver
- Smooth foam balls, your choice of size I’m using 2″ and 3″ balls
- Acrylic paint for the foam balls
- Paint brush
- Optional: for hanger, eye pins or wire, fishing line, ribbon or string, Tacky glue
Directions:
I do think it is best to use the smooth foam balls! Start by deciding on your colors, and paint the foam balls. I find it easy and fast to stick a tooth pick into the ball, paint it and then stick into foam sheet or card board box to dry (the tooth pick hole will be covered with a flowers)! You do want a good coat of paint, but remember you will be covering with flowers!
While the balls are drying, start punching, and punching and punching. I tried to count when I was making a 3″ ball, it was around 80 flowers and it will depend on how close together you put them. Since I was making about 75 covered balls, I just punched each of the colors I wanted to use and put them in bags, when I ran out of that color I just punched more!
I found the Sequin pins from Jo Anns for 99 cents for 300 and of course I used a coupon! But any thin straight pin will work, you just have to make sure the seed bead will slide on and stay on!
Pick your seed bead color and slide one bead on the pin and stick on a flower. Now I just pushed it right into the ball, but you could dip the end of the pin in Tacky glue if you felt like it needed it.
Since I was making sooo many, I found it easier to sit and watch TV 
and slide on the bead and flower and make a bowl full and then put them on the balls!
I also found that if the card stock was super thick (like some of the heavy glitter ones from Micheal’s) they were too hard to punch and way to hard to push a pin through….just thought you should know!
Remember it’s up to you on how close together to put the flowers, it gives you a different look when the flowers are on top of each other! If you do not do the pin gluing, it’s no problem to move the flower pin around, which you might need to when you are fitting in the last ones!
To make a hanger, I’m using an eye pin (which is used to make jewelery) but works great for this project or you can use wire. First slide the seed bead on, then the a flower and dip the end of the pin in Tacky Glue and push into ball! Tie fishing line or ribbon on and hang your ornament!
Here is tip, I found that Velum paper works great (I used velum paper for the snowflake balls, second picture from the top) and it’s a beautiful look, it comes in colors like red, gold and silver!
Think about a different shape of punch, hearts, snowflakes, two different sizes of flowers…what shapes do you have!
I also love them just in a large glass bowl! A fun and inexperience way to add color and or texture to your coffee table?
Did you know you can get the foam in an oval egg shape….Easter eggs how much fun!
How about making a topiary, one (or two) large ball covered with flowers, use a ribbon wrapped wood dowel as the stem, and placed in any vase or pot! So pretty for a baby shower or bridal shower center piece.
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