DIY - mini Flower Basket

Colourful flowers always add to a positive ambience in the house. Recently, my shelf was devoid of a beautiful piece during the process of cleaning. The empty space was staring back at me so bad, that I needed to place something lovely there ASAP. Unable to find a good replacement for my old mini flower basket, I decided to make one!

For this, we require,
1. Any old round container
2. Quilling strips
3. Crepe paper
4. A pair of scissors
5. Glue
6. Craft wire
7. Some pips
8. Cotton
9. Thread

For the basket, I have taken a used cream jar, which we normally throw away after it's empty.
Let's take four orange quilling strips and stick two of them together to make a bigger one.

Apply some glue and roll one strip on the top and one at the bottom of the jar.

 Keep it aside.

Now we need a dark brown and creme/light brown/beige coloured quilling strips to make the outer layer of the basket.

Measure around the jar with the dark brown quilling strip and cut. Also measure the height of the jar and cut some light brown strips. Take one small quilling strip and paste the longer ones on it, as shown below,

To weave the pattern, take the small strips one by one and insert alternately between the longer strips, like this -

You will start to see the pattern, Repeat till you reach the end and seal with glue.

Put the plastic jar on top of it. Apply some glue on the orange strip and roll the patterned paper on it. 

Leave it to dry.

Now, we need to make some colourful flowers. For the first flower, I have cut some crepe paper pieces, 2" x 1" (LxB). Put a pip on it and a small piece of craft wire.

Put a drop of glue in the center where they meet and roll the paper to complete the flower.

 For the 2nd flower, take a strip of crepe paper, fold and make some cuts on the edges. Tie it in the centre with a thread and fluff it to reveal a flower.

For making a rose, again take a crepe paper strip and roll it around a craft wire as shown in the pic. Make sure you apply some glue at the base and affix the flower!

To make the leaves, I have taken craft papers with two shades of green. Cut out the different leaf styles.

Now that the flowers and leaves are ready, put some cotton in the previously prepared basket and arrange them the way you like!

:)