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Leather Flowers

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Homemade leather flowers in a jar.

This is something I love doing.  If you are a regular here at The Gunny Sack, you’ve seen my tutorials for other recycled items like wire memo boards with used frames, painted vintage trays, painted leather flower headbands, zipper flowers, brown bag envelopes, and a wall hanging from barn wood.  For this project, I decided to make leather flowers.  To get me started, I received this craft kit that included 3 canvas panels, a picture frame, scissors, a glue gun, and paintbrushes.  This kit really got my mind whirling with so many ideas that I didn’t know which direction to go!  I ended up using scissors, paintbrushes, and a glue gun for this leather flowers tutorial

I enjoy working with leather.  I’ve made leather baby shoes, leather headbands, a leather camera case, a leather sunglasses case, and painted leather flowers for headbands.  I always use recycled leather that I get from so many different sources.  Some of the leather is from our used jackets, some of the leather I purchase second-hand, and some are given to me by friends and family.  It is hard to find leather in unique colors.  I mostly find black and brown leather.  For this project, I used a black leather jacket and a red leather jacket.

cut pieces of leather on concrete.

I made 3 different flowers: roses, calla lilies, and loopy flowers with no official name.  For the roses, I cut out 13 heart shapes.  For the calla lily, I cut out the shape in the center, which I have no idea what to call…a spearhead??  For the loopy flowers, I cut long strips of leather 2×12 inches long.

cut strips of leather on concrete.

To make the roses, I folded one heart, wrong sides together, and hot glued the bottom point.  Then, I started wrapping hearts around the center heart, right sides facing in, and gluing them in place down at the point.

To make the calla lilies, I put hot glue on the long rectangular piece at the bottom and rolled it up.  Then, I cut a small strip of leather for the stamen and glued it to the inside of the flower.  I ended up cutting off a little of this glued part when attaching the stem because it was too long.

To make the loopy flowers, I folded the leather strip in half and hot glued the edges together.  Then, I cut small slits in the leather.  I didn’t measure them out, but I tried to cut them evenly.  Next, I rolled up the strip, hot gluing it in place along the way.

Leather pieces, a wooden skewer and white tissue paper.

To make the stems, I hot glued wooden skewers to the flowers.  Then, I took crumpled strips of tissue paper and wrapped them around the very bottoms of the flowers and around the skewers.  I used hot glue every once in awhile to keep it in place.  For the loopy flower, I cut a circle of leather that I hot glued to the back of the flower with the skewer between, and then I wrapped the stick.

a paintbrush adds green paint to tissue paper wrapped around the stem of a homemade craft flower.

Since I used white tissue paper left over from Christmas, I needed to paint it green.  I had some craft paint on hand from various projects and had just enough for these stems.

Handcrafted leather roses.

I chose not to make leaves and thorns, but they would be a nice addition.  I love how they turned out and am trying to figure out how else I can use the flowers.

hand-crafted leather flowers.

These loopy flowers could be put on headbands, hair binders, or so many different things because the bottoms of the flowers are flat and, therefore, easy to attach.

The calla lilies are very elegant, and although I have never seen a black calla lily, they do exist…well they are called black calla lilies, but they are actually really dark purple.

Homemade leather flowers in a jar.

I put the flowers in a recycled glass jar and put a strip of washi tape around the jar for decoration.

John Mecier is a celebrated mosaic artist who created 4 works of art using people’s trash, including items collected during Great American Cleanups from around the country as well as items donated by celebrities such as Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon A Time) and Nathan Kress (iCarly).  These works of art are up for auction right now during the Glad Black Bag art auction on eBay, and the proceeds will benefit Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup.  The auction runs from April 16 through April 26.

What have you made from recycled items?

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  1. Neefer says

    May 27, 2024 at 5:28 pm

    Thank you. I have been searching for simple leather flower DIY, and this post was very, very helpful.

    Reply
  2. Annette Poitras says

    April 12, 2017 at 4:43 pm

    Love, Love the calla lillies. This is a must. You may want to add some scented oil so that when someone picks one up and automatically goes to sniff it, it actual smells beautiful.

    Reply
  3. Amber's Snippets of Design says

    April 24, 2012 at 2:43 pm

    Tonia,
    I would of never of even thought of doing this but they look great!
    Your so clever 😉
    amber

    Reply
  4. Rachel {BubblyNatureCreations.com} says

    April 20, 2012 at 1:18 am

    Wow!!! These are lovely! These look very professional… great job!

    Reply
  5. Wendy says

    April 19, 2012 at 9:17 am

    What a great idea, these flowers are beautiful!

    Reply
  6. Jenilyn says

    April 19, 2012 at 3:14 am

    These are stunning! I would LOVE for you to link them up to my “I Made This” party at Grits & Giggles. http://www.gritsandgiggles.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-made-this_18.html

    Reply
  7. Julie Bagamary says

    April 18, 2012 at 10:56 am

    These are beautiful!

    Reply
  8. Anuska says

    April 18, 2012 at 10:35 am

    me encanta, hace poco recicle unas botas altas que tenia de cuero verdes para hacer broches en forma de maniquí.

    fabulosooooo

    Reply
  9. The Imperfect Housewife says

    April 17, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    SO BEAUTIFUL~!!!!

    Reply
  10. Lindsay @ Delighted Momma says

    April 17, 2012 at 3:16 pm

    This is amazing!! How in the world did you come up with this?! This is something that I would def try! I have a bunch of old leather bags that need a new life

    Reply
  11. Crystal says

    April 17, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    Tonia, the flowers are beautiful! You are seriously so creative, I love everything you do. Oh and I spy washi tape! I made some washi tape mason jars this weekend too. That stuff is so addicting lol

    Reply
  12. Stephanie @ henry happened says

    April 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    Tonia, you are so crazy creative! Love these, they turned out so elegant & lovely!

    Reply
  13. Stephanie @ henry happened says

    April 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    Tonia, you are so crazy creative! Love these, they turned out so elegant & lovely!

    Reply
  14. LilyElement says

    April 17, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Whoa, the flowers are really pretty! Great idea 🙂

    Reply
  15. Lindsay says

    April 17, 2012 at 12:29 pm

    This is so beautiful! I love how gorgeous your flowers turned out.

    Reply

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