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Today, we bring to you an extra unique DIY project from Ruffled! This is a non-floral boutonniere, made with crochet doilies, gold paper leaves and feathers! Our favorite part? The versatility. You can bookmark

this project for your wedding, whether it is indoor, outdoor, winter, or summer because it works with everything! This cute and charming DIY boutonniere will go with any wedding theme!

Materials needed: • floral tape • scissors or clippers (for cutting stems and ribbon) • wire cutters • ribbon (any color and type) • hot glue gun • feathers, faux berries, vintage corsage leaves, buttons, doily, lace • boutonniere pin

Instructions (as demonstrated in the above photos):

1–Begin by choosing anything with stems that you will be using for the boutonniere such as leaves or faux berries. Place the stems into an arrangement that you like and then cut off the stems, leaving about 3 inches to work with.

2–Using a hot glue gun, neatly glue down items without stems such as feathers, ribbon, lace, flowers, or whatever else you plant to use into their desired positions. Only a small dab of glue will be needed to adhere your items, this will ensure the glue is not visible on your completed boutonniere.

3–Once all the items are in place, take your floral tape and begin to wrap it around your stems until they are no longer visible. You may want to adjust the length of your stems by cutting them slightly shorter. The average size boutonniere is anywhere between 3 -4 inches long from top to bottom.

4–Take a piece of matching ribbon and glue one

end of the ribbon at the top of your wires neatly. Glue down so that the ribbon is angled downwards and slowly begin to wrap your ribbon around the floral tape covered stems. The floral tape is sticky but not stick enough to hold down the ribbon so be sure to wrap around snugly.

5–As you make it to the bottom begin to wrap back up the stem neatly as this will be the pattern you see. Again, pull snugly and space the over lapping ribbon as you desire. For additional embellishment you may add a thin string, or colored wire up the ribbon covered stem for an extra pop of color.

And you’re done!

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