silk flowers

[L&CZ]

Hi everyone,
a while back I had found a great link for silk flowers online and had book marked it on my computer, but that computer quit on me and now I cant find the link anymore. Could any one give me any suggestions of sites for puchasing silk roses. I would like to make my own bouquet.
thanks

[starsthrumysoul]

I bought silk roses from efavormart.com for my kissing balls. IMO, they look great, and the price was really decent!

[L&CZ]

thank you those are gorgeous. they look real, I will go check it out. thanks again

[Deanna2112001]

HI LCZ,
I bought mine from walmart. On sale for 75 cents a bunch/dozen.
I made my pew flowers with them
They also have real feel flowers at hobby lobby. They have 50% sales all the time.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p261/Deanna2112002/invitations.jpg

[Karissa&Bryan]

I want to do these for my wedding and was curious as to how many bunches of flowers you need and what size balls are used? TIA

[starsthrumysoul]

I bought 6" balls and used about 100 flowers on each ball. BUT I used some that were open and some that were closed, so if you use all open flowers, you could probably get away with like 60-70 per ball. And I had them really packed together (I like that look better).

[Deanna2112001]

If your talking about pomanders. It depends on the size of Styrofoam ball that you get. I know with my first one. I went to big. I used a 5 round ball. Looked to be the size of a grapefruit. But then it took 6 1/2 dozen roses to cover it.

You could buy smaller balls and that would take less flowers to fill. For the most part this was one of the easiest DIY prodject I have done. The hardest being my invitations. I have one last DIY and thats the monogram aisle runner. Hopefully its not hard to do. :)

[Deanna2112001]

Yep your right. On the big one I made. I used 78 open roses.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p261/Deanna2112002/JulyandAugust2007023.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p261/Deanna2112002/JulyandAugust2007021.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p261/Deanna2112002/JulyandAugust2007025.jpg
This was unfinished. I just could not wait to take a pic of it.

[Karissa&Bryan]

Thanks to all of the beautiful pictures I have seen of others with their kissing balls, I went tonight got the stuff to attempt and make one myself. You are right, it was really easy but it turned out a lot bigger than I wanted so I am going to get a 3" ball instead of a 5" one and see how that works. Boy did that boost my confidence in my diying ablilities and now I am ready to do my invites. I have them worded and just need to print them. I am going to do those this Friday when I am off of school. Thank you guys for your great ideas and pictures!!:cheers:

[Deanna2112001]

No Problem! Thats what were here for :o

[Gertie]

dollartreedirect dot com has been known to have some pretty nice silk roses