A Festive Painted Cut-Out Bouquet For The Front Door!

The Jewish holiday of Shavuot starts on Sunday night, and our front door is ready! I just love painting flowers and cutting them out, as with the water color poppies cut outs, and am also really pleasantly surprised by how wonderful a bouquet of painted flowers can be as well, especially when you free it from the confines of the paper! Of course a bouquet of flowers drawn and then painted, like this one, is all about planning, and execution, so after all that effort, you will want to use it again and again, or even hang it somewhere in a frame, and you should! The more flowers the better, and painted ones add so much joy where ever they are hung! There is still time to make something similar for Shavuot, so get started, loose a little bit of sleep over it if necessary (that is the type I am, don’t do if it is isn’t you!) and most of all, have a wonderful holiday! Okay, lets get some more info regardng how this paper bouquet was created, shall we?

You’ll Need:

• water color paper, mine is large, 35 x 50 cm, you can always tape two sheets together as you need the length for the flower stems
• gouche paint or watercolor, or anything you have on hand!
• a black permanent marker, medium weight/ fine, and a white gel pen or fine paint marker
• a pencil and scissors

How To:

1. Look at some illustrations of flower bouquets for inspiration, or just copy mine if you like. The main thing is a nice variety of flower sizes, types and leaf types.
2. With a pencil, draw your bouquet on the paper, and get the proportions looking good.
3. Choose at least one color that will pop, and use that on the largest flowers (if your composition includes a few large flowers, recommended!)
4. Have fun painting the rest of the bouquet in a nice variety of colors.
5. Now outline and add details with the black pen, but don’t over do it. Add white details with the white gel pen. (You can go over your pencil lines in black pen before painting if you prefer.)
6. Take a good look at the results, and if certain flowers could really bigger, or any elements aren’t a nice as they could be, simply paint new ones on the water color paper scraps, and glue them on. I did just that with the bigger round gold flowers as some of them were just too small.
7. Now cut out your masterpiece and enjoy!
8. I taped my to the front door with some duck tape, the easiest option, but you may want to tape a loop of wire to the back.

A paper bouquest of flowers is so much fun to create, and wonderful to hang. It would be lovely in a child’s bedroom or nursery, in the kitchen, over a bed, anywhere!