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Today I will be showing you how to make this lovely, D.I.Y. Bubble Bowl Centerpiece using items I found at my local Dollar Tree! Feel free to follow along as I show you how to make this elegant centerpiece. I'd love to see your own recreations! Please share them with #BubbleBowlCenterpiece and on any of our social media accounts for your chance to be featured!
I have also provided a Step-by-Step Tutorial below as well of a list of materials.
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Materials
Below are links to the materials used to make this elegant centerpiece!
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I used 5 of these round vases, however you could always use all 6 and replace the base piece or simply make yours even taller!
I used one of these urn style vases to create the base. Feel free to use this or another round vase in your own project.
I used this clear, glass salad plate at the bottom of the base for more stability. If you'd like, you can use just this plate for the base and skip the urn.
Make sure you have several cotton swabs on hand. You'll need them to help remove price stickers as well as to spread glue to your glassware. You can also use some clean swaps to clean up any excess glue.
This is just your standard 70% rubbing alcohol. Any strength will work just fine. I just happened to have this on hand already.
This glue is ESSENTIAL to secure your glassware! It dries within 24 hours and is fully cured within 72 hours. Please also use this glue in a well ventilated area.
The exact rose colored pearl necklace that I used originally has been clearanced and is now discontinued. That being said, these make a lovely substitute! This project likely would use 6 strands but I would purchase a 7th as extra filler just in case.
I used 2 sets of these floral blocks and simply glued them all together into one large block. You can do the same or...
You can order these two larger floral foam bricks and just glue them together instead.
If you're making this project, the chances are you already own a glue gun. If not, however, this little cutie does a fantastic job and even comes with a small supply of extra glue sticks!
Make sure you have extra glue sticks on hand just in case!
Wire cutters make trimming your floral stems a much smoother process. If you don't already own a pair I would recommend you grab some!
I used the "hot pink" and "pink" peonies for my centerpiece. If you order them online they come shipped in an assorted lot with white peonies. So feel free to use them! Adding the white ones would be lovely, especially for a wedding!
I used the "fuchsia" and "light pink" rose stems for this look. If you are incorporating the white peonies, the white roses would also be a nice addition to the piece.
When I was purchasing my supplies, I had found pink wisteria stems at my local Dollar Tree. However, their website doesn't have pink as a listed color. If your local shop doesn't have any pink ones and you'd like to order online, the white ones would be a fine substitute, especially if you choose to include the white peonies and roses from above. Or...
You can order these lovely pink wisteria branches from Amazon. These ones are much fuller as well, so added bonus!
Steps
Part 1: Glassware
Start by gathering all of your glassware supplies. I used:
5 Round Glass Floral Bowls.
These ones are about 4 inches in diameter. They also had smaller ones in stock but with how large this project will be I chose the larger bowls for their added support for the base.
1 Roman Urn Glass Candleholder, 3.5 in
I used this Roman Urn to build the bottom of the base. Alternatively, you could use a 6th Round Glass Floral Bowl and fill it with flowers as well.
1 Clear Glass Salad Plate, 7.5 in
You can opt for a larger plate as your base and/or use just the base without the urn for a shorter centerpiece. Make sure you remove all of the stickers from your glassware before gluing them together. There are many ways to remove stickers from glass, like using Goo-Gone or acetone nail polish remover. I personally used some rubbing alcohol and some cotton swabs.
Take a cotton swab and generously dampen it with the rubbing alcohol. You are then going to blot the rubbing alcohol onto the price sticker on your glassware. The idea is to make sure that the sticker is completely covered and can soak in as much rubbing alcohol as possible. Go ahead and dampen all of the stickers on your glassware as they will need to sit for awhile to let the rubbing alcohol do its magic. Before the alcohol starts to dry, take either another cotton swab or your fingers and lift up an edge of the sticker. It should peal off smoothly. If some sticker residue remains or the sticker isn't lifting, add more rubbing alcohol. You can even use a dampened cotton swab to scrub stubborn sticky residue off of your glass.
Make sure your glassware is thoroughly dried after removing their price stickers. Feel free to wash them beforehand with warm, soapy water before continuing.
Now that we have the prep work out of the way, it's time to finally start working on our base. We are going to be using E6000 Craft Glue. It dries in about 24 hours and fully cures within 72 hours, giving us a strong and secure base. Please work in a well ventilated area with this glue.
Use on of the cotton swabs to spread E6000 around the rim of the Roman Urn. You don't need too much glue, just enough to make a nice and secure connection with the salad plate. E6000 dries clear, but we'll still cover up the seams later on.
Flip the urn and center it on the underside of the salad plate. You want your salad plate so that it curves downward facing your table so that it provides the centerpiece with as much surface area as possible. This will make a more balanced and stable base than if your plate were facing upward.
If you accidentally used too much E6000, you can wipe off excess glue with a clean cotton swab.
We're going to start building up the tower now. Add a thick layer of E6000 to the base of the urn. Take your first Round Glass Floral Bowl and center it on top like this:
Keep in mind that E6000 does take up to 24 hours to dry. This means that while you are working on this project the glassware can still shift and may need readjusting throughout your build. I twisted and shifted the bowl on top of the urn a little bit to reduce the amount of bubbles trapped between the two.
Next we need to make rosettes. To do this we take 5 one of our rose bushes and remove rose buds of the same color. We are going to glue them together in a pinwheel formation. Since we are working with hot glue, this process has to be done fairly quickly. Here's a diagram breakdown:
Start with the underside of one of the rose buds.
Surround the stem of the first bud with hot glue.
Now we're going to start adding our 4 other buds in a "pinwheel" formation.
Start with your placing the first of the 4 additional buds close to the stem of the initial bud. Keep the 2nd bud's stem on the outside of the 1st bud's.
Repeat this step with the 3rd bud. The 3rd stem should run along the side of the 1st stem and will touch the base of the 2nd bud.
Repeat this process with the 4th bud.
Place the 5th and final bud along the remaining side. Your formation should look like this. You may find that you need to use additional hot glue. Try to keep the glue near the inner stem of the first bud so that it is not easily visible from the outside of flower arrangement.
Great! Now that you've made your first rosette, repeat these steps and create 3 light pink rosettes and 2 fuchsia rosettes.
Your rose buds may not be very large or opened, so try to fluff your rosettes before placing them in the round glass bowls. I started with a light pink rosette in my bottom bowl. No glue is necessary when placing the rosettes. The fluffed petals should fill the bowl and help hold them in place.
We're going to prep our second round glass bowl by fluffing a fuchsia rosette and placing it in the bowl.
Grab your E6000 and cotton swabs again and line the edge of the first round glass bowl with glue.
Place your second bowl on top of the first. Keep repeating these steps with alternating colors of rosettes.
I found this cute pink pearl necklace at a different dollar store on clearance for just under $4. Unfortunately, the discontinuation of this necklace may make it hard to find. Find a similar necklace to use of you canorder these pearl strands instead.
This particular necklace was one long strand of braided pearls, I was able to remove the metal connectors at each end and cut it to my desired lengths.
Take your pearl strand and measure it around the base of your round bowl. Cut the strand to fit around the narrowest parts of the connected glassware. These strands will help cover up our glue seams.
Take caution: not all strands of pearls are the same. Some are loose beads on a single thread whereas others are others are fused with the thread that they are on, like costume jewelry or Mardi Gras beads. If your pearls are loose, you will need to secure them on the thread before gluing them to the centerpiece. You can knot the ends of the threads and/or glue the ends so that your pearls do not fall off.
Warm up your hot glue gun and cover up your glassware seams with the pearls.
Repeat these steps all the way up your centerpiece.
I had pearls left over, so I went back and covered up the seam between the Roman Urn and the Salad Plate as well. Part 2: Floral
Now to our floral!
You will need to glue 2 floral foam bricks together to make a large square piece. I picked up theseFoam Floral Blocks at my local Dollar Tree. Each block contained 4 pieces, so I used my hot glue gun to connect them all back into 2 bricks. I then took the 2 bricks and glued them together into a square.
Put a ring of hot glue at the base of your now larger foam block so that it will connect with the rim of your top bowl.
Take some time to preposition your flowers into the foam. This will give you an idea of how closely you need to space the flowers together.
The peonies that I picked up had very nice leaves, so I used them to cover the lower half of the foam all away around the base of our floral section. Trim the stem of the leaves if needed with a wire cutter. To secure the leaves in the foam add a bead of hot glue at the end of the stem before inserting them into the foam.
The peonies have very long stems. Trim them down to your desired length with wire cutters and position them into the foam with hot glue. I alternated the peonies between light pink and fuchsia just above the leaves. I had 6 peonies left over after circling the base of the foam, so I used 4 light pink peonies on the outer edge of the foam (1 on the left, 2 on the top, and 1 on the right) and 2 fuchsia peonies on remaining sides (1 on the front of the foam and 1 on the back.)
I happened to find pink wisteria branches at the Dollar Tree that matched my light pink flowers perfectly. Each branch had 3 steams with several blossoms on each. I trimmed the stems down and added them individually to the centerpiece with hot glue. I added 4 wisteria stems along the top half of the foam and I staggered 4 more stems along the bottom of the foam. If you looked down at the top of the centerpiece, the bottom row of wisteria would be located in the north, south, east, and west points on the foam. The top row, subsequently, would be located in the north-west, north-east, south-west, and south-east points of the foam.
Now to fill in the remainder of the foam with our light pink and fuchsia roses! Take your wire cutters and separate the individual stems of roses from the remaining rose bushes. Try to alternate your placement of the roses so that you don't create large clumps of like-colored roses.
Make sure you cover all of the exposed foam. To help cover the foam, fluff your roses and peonies.
For this particular centerpiece, I used:
16 peonies, 20 rose bushes, and 3 wisteria branches. Your centerpiece may use more or less flowers depending on how closely you place your stems. You can help keep the cost on this centerpiece down by fluffing your flowers and not spacing them too densely on your foam. In many cases, less is more! Do not over-crowd your centerpiece. The Finished Look:
We did it! Here is the final look of our D.I.Y. Bubble Bowl Centerpiece!
This arrangement would look fantastic in other color schemes or even with some bling! I'd love to see your recreations of this! Please share your photos on social media with the hashtag #BubbleBowlCenterpiece. You can also share them with me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest. You can even email it to us at [email protected]. I will feature my favorites on my various accounts. ♥ That's it for the Bubble Bowl Centerpiece! Thank you for joining me today. What types of wedding D.I.Y. projects would you like to see next? Comment down below and if I pick your suggestion I will give you a quick shout out! So until next time, don't forget: "Let us be your something blue!"
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