Flower Girl Baskets

Flower girl baskets decorated with beautiful flowers and ribbons.

These are the normal wicker baskets that are beautifully decorated, to be carried by the flower girl.

Traditionally, you can choose to put flowers or petals in the basket.

A white basket, decorated with white and green ribbon with white silk flowers on both handles.

Fuchsia and orange ribbons in this brown basket. Hot pink daisies and ivy leaves complement the bright ribbons and basket.

Brown basket decorated with light blue ribbons and flower petals inside.

A cone shaped container, but wrapped in green sisal. Inside the cone are rose petals. The cone's handle is made of pink ribbon and decorated with pink roses and green berries.

A basket that looked like a bird's nest. Inside, are flower petals in assorted colors. The handle is decorated with ivory satin ribbon.

A Rustic Country Themed Flower Girl Basket

This flower girl basket would be ideal for a rustic country wedding theme. I made it using burgundy and yellow daisy pompons, moss and black ribbon. It is a simple idea and anybody could make it.

Take a basket of any shape but with a handle. I chose this basket because the rims are curvy which makes it more designable. I sprayed on glue to get the moss attached around the rims.

But before that, I wrapped the handle with a black satin ribbon for a more dramatic effect. I then take a few blooms of the daisy pompons, two bigger blooms and one smaller one and glue them near the handle using a floral adhesive.

I like to keep things simple and liked how this flower girl basket turned out. The flower girl could carry flower petals or stalks of country flowers and walk down that aisle.

How To Make A Unique Flower Girl Basket

Two Ladybirds In A Basket Made Of Carnations

The materials for making this unique arrangement for the flower girl is not many. You need :

• 10 stalks of red carnations

• a small oval basket

• one block of floral foam

• transparent plastic wrapper

• polycia leaves

• some cotton

• black cloth

• 2 pairs of doll's eyes

• floral wire

• red ribbon

• black ribbon

• black beans

Handy Tip!
Before using the carnations, use your hands to open up the petals of carnations so that they look bloomer and fuller.

Preparing the basket

First and foremost, soak the foam into water and wait until it absorbs water completely.

Cut each stalk of carnation to leave about 2 cm of stem. Cut also the polycia leaves into short lengths.

To make your job easier, decorate the basket handle with a ribbon first. Here, I used a red cheques ribbon to wrap the handle and tied a bow on each side.

Then, take a piece of transparent plastic wrapper and place it at the bottom of the basket.

Take the soaked foam and insert it into the basket. Cut the top of the foam so that it is the same height as the basket. Also cut out the excess plastic to make sure that the plastic is not visible.

Making the ladybirds

I am going to make two ladybirds. One is bigger than the other. For the bigger one, I use 6 carnations and for the smaller one, I use 4 carnations.

Let's make the bigger one first. The method for making the smaller ladbird is similar to making the bigger, so I will not explain the steps to make the smaller ladybird.

Take 6 carnations and start inserting into the foam to form a semi-sphere. This is the body of the ladybird. Please remember to make room for the smaller ladybird.

Now, we make the head. Take some cotton in your hand and form a ball. Also take a piece of black cloth and wrap the cotton ball. Secure it using a floral wire.

Cut excess cloth to make it more tidy and insert the cotton ball near the ladybird body.

Let's exaggerate the ladybird features a little bit.

Ladybirds have black dots on their body, right? We'll make that too.

First, take a black ribbon with about 0.5cm width and secure both sides using floral wire.

Then, place the black ribbon at the center of the ladybird's body, like this...

Then, take some black beans and glue them one by one on the ladybird's body.

Now, we make the faces of the ladybirds.

Take a pair of doll's eyes and glue them on the head for the eyes. If you want, cut a piece of red ribbon into the shape of a mouth and glue it below the eyes.

Lastly, take the polycia leaves and insert them at the exposed foam area to cover it.

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