I am new to this plant business. I did a lot of research before I attempted this project. I took tips from this blog and that blog and came up with my own way of doing things. Hope my experience will help you as well. This is a finished plant that hangs between two booths in Gasthaus Pfeifer
A small wooden bowl makes a perfect hanging pot, with some small holes drilled into the side of the bowl and wire twisted, ends bent and glued into the small holes. Florist clay glued into the pot.
The plant itself begins with a miniature heart hole punch that I purchased from Ebay and green post it note paper.
Each leaf is marked with a water soluble dark green marker. You can experiment with other colors. And placed between a wet, very wet but not dripping wet, paper towel.
I carefully remover the wet leaf from the paper towel with a tweezers and place it on two sheets of craft foam. With a small end of an embossing tool, I press the heart shape at the top of the heart to shape the leaf. On some of them I also drug an embossing tool gently down the middle to give it some texture. Careful. This is tricky and I ruined quite a few until I got the hang of it. It should remain indented in the foam at the top of the heart. When it is dry it will pop out easily. Do not remover to early as it will not retain its shape.
Finished leaves dry and waiting for stems.
A very thin wire forms the stem. If I were to do this again i would have painted the wire. Each stem is coated with quick dry tacky glue. Each leaf is dipped in glue at the point where it will be attached to the stem. Holding with a tweezers, carefully place each leaf on the stem making some stems longer then others for a variety in the arrangement. Some people suggested using super glue mixed with the tacky glue but the tacky glue worked fine as long as I coated the stem also. The color is a bit different but it is just the photo. Each wire stem is then trimmed and the end dipped in glue and arranged in the florist clay.
Very nice work!!
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