Birthday bouquet

A birthday bouquet for one of the loveliest! Happy birthday, Joanne!

A bouquet of five flower balloons in glass jar
Flower bouquet

I made a couple new flowers that I hadn’t made before. The weaving pattern is fun to try. Check out Sergey’s rose balloon tutorial. I reused a glass jar to hold the flowers – it’s solid and weighted, so won’t fall over. I like to save glass jars (pickles, applesauce, etc) for this purpose.

[ Sergey’s tutorial video ]

Flower bouquet

Flower bouquet

It’s been a while since my last flower balloon bouquet. I hope to try making some new types of flowers soon.

I ran out of the glass vases I usually use for flower bouquets, but I found the wide mouth canning jars work great for this purpose. They will fit about 6 stems made out of size 160 balloons.

Happy birthday, Evelyn! Always great to meet new friends!

Balloon bouquet

Balloon bouquet

This balloon bouquet was made for a couple celebrating their new home and soon coming baby boy. My husband and I met them almost a year ago, have gotten to know them well, and are excited for their coming little one. Congrats to you both!! 🙂

In this bouquet, I included a Betallatex 5″ emoji round balloon, which I just received in my recent order of balloons from larocksmagic.com. I decided to order from them this time, as they have a larger assortment of balloons in their catalog at great prices.

For the stems I used the Qualatex Fashion Wintergreen 160Qs. I like using this shade of green for the stems.

Birthday bouquet

Flower bouquet
Flower bouquet

Happy happy birthday to my wonderful niece! Can’t believe it’s been 5 years already since I made you this princess balloon for your birthday.

For this bouquet, I added a heart and a Hello Kitty balloon. Different shapes are fun, and who doesn’t like Hello Kitty? Using such balloons also saves your fingers from having to twist additional flowers.

A couple of the flowers petals deflated by the next day. (That’s okay – you can’t really tell.) I’ll have to remember to let a little air out of the balloon before tying to help avoid popping/deflation.

Flower bouquet

Flower Bouquet
Flower Bouquet

This flower bouquet was made for my friend’s baby shower. Congratulations Katie on your coming bundle of joy! 🙂

You can make a vase out of balloons, but I often like using a real glass vase. It looks nice and it is sturdy. For the stems, I like to use the wintergreen 160 balloons, which are part of the Qualatex 160 Vibrant Assortment. Of course, any green will work. Many of these flowers I’ve made before, but I did look up a tutorial for the rose. There are many rose videos out there – I used this video by Yonaimy. Lastly, you get to use your flower arranging skills. 🙂

[ Video tutorial by Yonaimy ]