How to Make Crystal Flowers

Crystal Flowers Bouquet

I find crystal so lovely. Most fancy stores in India stock crystal stones in assorted colors.They are mostly used to adorn dresses and sarees. Recently I bought a few packets of crystal or "kundan" as they are locally called ,intending to use them as card embellishments then I got around to playing with them and see what I could create!

Crystal Flowers and Silver leaves

Kundan Flower Arrangement

How to make crystal flowers
These crystal flowers look lovely and are easy to make.I once saw them in a gift shop and they were priced quite high and and I never thought they could me made at home!
Materials required
1.Crystals- Size specification: large ones are easier to work with and look more elegant
Shape specification:To begin with use the petal shaped one. I tried the circular ones but the petal shaped ones look more classier
Color: there are some lovely shades in the market just be sure you have enough crystals for the project you have in mind
2.Florists wire-You can make 2 flowers with just one standard sized florist wire which is available in the Indian market. My favorite color is silver as it lets the light reflected from the crystal shine so well.

Steps to make the crystal flowers
You need 5 crystal petals for each flower and some length of florist wire

Crystal flower Petals and Florist wire

Insert wire through the front of the  narrower end of the crystal.

How to make a Crystal flower 

Insert the same wire  from the back side of the broad side so that it comes out on the front .Bend it down to the back.

How to make a Crystal flower petal

 The photo below is how your crystal flower petal will look like. You can twist the 2 lengths of the wire at the lower end as shown to secure the crystal petal

Crystal flower petal Tutorial 

Loop the end of the wire through the next petal in the same fashion

How to make a Kundan flower

Keep the wires fairly tight and loop each petal to interlink it to the next as shown in the photo.Though from the picture it may look complicated once you start working with the petals it will come naturally.

Crystal flower Making Tutorial

To make a crystal flower bud place two crystals back to back and loop the wire.

Crystal Flower Bud

To make a bouquet of crystal flowers I used some beautiful silver leaves which had holes through which I could loop the florist wire in the same way I made the petals

Crystal Flowers

I hope you guys enjoyed this "How to". I am not too good with sewing and I was personally thrilled to use these flowers for some thing other than stitching on clothes! Do try making them!
Here is a photoframe I made using Crystal Flowers

DIY Photoframe

An alternate method to make the crystal flowers is to make wired single petals and twist 5 together and wrap with floral tape.