How To Make Flowers With String And Flocking

                                 How To Make These Flowers

The items you will need are:

-String

-Flocking (I have demonstrated how to make this in my blog called ‘making the foliage for the train layout’)

-Liquid hair spray glue (which I demonstrated how to make in last week’s blog called ‘making hair spray liquid glue)

-Green paint (or a can of dark green paint)

-Spray gun

-Scissors

-Glad bake

String

Liquid Hair Spray Glue

For the foliage you might first like to mix up some mixtures of coloured flocking. Some of the variations I have mixed up for our flowers are:

Purple and mauve with some light olive green flocking.

Dark pink, medium pink, pale pink and white flocking.

Dark pink, medium pink, pale pink, white, and light olive green flocking.

Deep red, medium red, and dark green flocking.

Dark yellow, medium yellow and pale yellow flocking.

Dark yellow, medium yellow, pale yellow and olive green flocking.

Dark yellow, dark orange, and red flocking. (This mix would have to be my favorite mix of colour's it just looks stunning).

Dark yellow, dark orange, red, and dark green flocking.

White and light olive green flocking. 

Cut your string approximately 1 ½ centimeters but it doesn’t have to be exact as not all flowers are the same size in the garden. I didn’t measure them I just cut them.

Then untwist the ends of them and place them on your sheet of Baking paper. 

Now you have them all untwisted it is now time to spray each one of them with your spray gun or a spray can of green paint.

As you spray each one of your flower stems place them on your baking paper and make sure they are not touching each other or they will stick together.

Now set them aside to dry.

Once they are dry then dip the fuzzy end of your painted string into the liquid hair spray glue and then straight into whichever colour flocking you want your flowers to be.

Then place them back on your baking paper to dry once again, and leave overnight for them to dry properly. This liquid hair spray glue does dry very quickly but I found they are even stiffer the next day and better to handle and while you are trying to figure out where they look best on your train layout or diorama. This method I found that the flocking dries that well that they don’t fall apart at all.

For a different effect on this red flower I dipped it into the dark green flocking first. Then let it dry and then dipped it into the red flocking. 

Here are some of my variations in colour's.

I hope you found this helpful and if you have any questions please feel free to leave your questions or comments down below I would love to hear from you. I hope you have a fun time creating.