Aren’t these beyond cute? I saw the idea HERE.
I loved this idea and thought they would be so cute hanging in Blayke’s room.
{don’t you think they’d be so cute as Valentines Decor, baby shower, birthday or even a wedding?}
So, I went to the store to get styrofoam balls. Holy Moses! Styrofoam is expensive! For a medium sized ball they’re $13.99, and $18.99 for a large ball.
WHAT?
Since I wanted 1 large, 1 medium and a small one, that wasn’t going to work. That would have been around $40 just for styrofoam. Not going to happen, thank you very much.
I had to get creative. I was desperate. Finally, I had an idea. I wasn’t sure if it was going to work or not and I think the mister thought I was joking when I told him my idea…
But, I grabbed a few old gossip bibles magazines and the duct tape.
I ripped out the pages and crumbled them up…
I held them somewhat together while the mister put tape around them…
Guess what? It worked! Take that Styrofoam.
Okay onto the fun stuff. I bought 2 yards of pink felt and 1 yard of white.
{you can use anything to make your circles, I used the top of my Scentsy 
It worked great}
You’re going to need a lot of circles. A lot. {I folded my felt so that I cut 4 at a time} 
When you’re ready, take one circle, fold it in half.
Fold it in half again and get ready to pin.
Pin at the bottom of the felt onto the ball.
Keep doing that all over until you are done.
{I hung them up in Blayke’s room and I love them}
Let’s total up:
3 balls: free! {you’d never know those balls aren’t styrofoam}
Pink and White felt: $7.40 {from Joann’s, I used a 50% off on the pink and 40% off the white}
Pins: $2.99 {I bought them on sale for 1.88 but I’ll go off the regular price of 2.99}
Ribbon: {was left over from my baby shower}
Total for all 3 felt roses: $10.49
mama like!
I LOVE these! I just posted a pic of the two I have made so far here…
http://flipflops-and-pearls.blogspot.com/2011/05/felt-rose-balls-part-uno.html
with a link back to your post.
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Kelley,
These felt balls are so adorable!!! I’ve got another cute idea I’ll share.
For my daughter’s 9th “glamour birthday party” we made tissue flowers for decorations that I hung from the ceiling. They turned out so cute!! Then when cleaning up, I gathered all the flowers together and made a huge one from all the multi-colored tissue and it hangs from their light fixture. It is so cute!!! Up-cycling is the way to go!
Thanks for the mag./tape idea. I’m all over that!!
Awesome idea. Will have to try. thanks
this is sooo cool. my grandbabes would love these. you go. grat way to upcycle too!
I really love these, so nice and fluffy looking! What a perfect place to hang them:)
Christine
greatoakcircle.com
How did you attach the ribbon?? These are darling…can’t wait to give it a try!
I used hot glue and about 5 pins to hold the ribbon in place.
YAY! I love these so much!! ANd I totally love that you were resourceful. I always am amazed at how expensive those things are!! Now, do the pins feel solid in the paper balls? And so cheap!! <3 I'm your new biggest fan!
Thank you!! Yes, the pins worked great because they are going through the duct tape first. So, that holds them in really well
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What a great idea in place of styrofoam! I just finished a project where I glued together some leftover florist foam, just because the foam balls were more than most of the supplies! So I appreciate this so I can go forward on several V-day projects, so Brava!
I lvoe this! My friend bought those foam balls and spent a ton! Thanks for sharing this. I am having a little girl and I can’t wait to make some stuff like this.
These are super cute! I put your link on my facebook page! Thanks for sharing! http://www.facebook.com/lifeinstages
I love these flower balls! Your blog is awesome! I made a post of favorite tutorials and linked back up to this post.
Thanks for sharing!
Way to show Styrofoam who is boss!!! great idea..will use in the future!
They are beautiful! the insides filled with newspapers is a great idea!
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Love these!!!
Who wants to spend money on the styro balls?! I love the magazine idea! Great job
slipperysoup.com
Oh my goodness – these are so super sweet and adorable! Great job and thanks so much for sharing your tips, tricks and tutorial. I would def NOT buy the styro balls either – I mean, you’re just going to cover them for heaven’s sake. Love how you did yours. Please stop by my blog and enter to win some awesomely creative TapeSwell decorative tape! Tomorrow’s the last day to enter!
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Hugs! Laurie
Wow, that took a lot of work! They sure turned out pretty though!
what a super fun idea. i would love a red one to put out for valentine’s day!!
Awesome. I was going to do paper ones for my little girls room. Thank you.
So very sweet! ~Kelly
unDeniably Domestic
GORGEOUS, it looks beautiful above a baby girls crib, love it! well done. JEN
wow – these are stunning. Great idea for the balls…genious really. found you via craft-o-maniac
tina
#277
Great idea, especially using old magazines instead of styrofoam! I’m already in the process of making these out of tissue paper for my grandbaby’s birthday, I wish I had seen this 2-3 days ago. Dangit! Thanks for sharing. Visiting through Dittle Dattle.
That’s great! If you have not been by yet, make sure you enter my linky contest! The best of January 2011 will be showered with prizes! I also have some great Valentines giveaways going on right now!
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Oh this is just too cute!!! Thanks for sharing, I’m going to give this a shot in my daughters room makeover. You can check it out on my blog! I also noticed in your header that you have some Toms… me too… LOVE THEM!!! I have the gray ones and a pair of the gray wedges!!!
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I LOVE these. I went to make these for my daughters room, but when I saw how much the Styrofoam balls were I wanted to cry. Thank you so much for coming up with a cheaper but just as cute version.
This is genius! I can’t get myself to buy styrofoam balls, i’ve got plenty of magazines and junk mail that I need to get rid off!
You are awesome!! If this next babe is a girl you have to help me make some! I have plenty of old People and Self mags lying around. What a smart idea!
These are so cute! I was just thinking this morning what I could do to the corner in both of my daughters rooms. I’m thinking these would do the trick.
When I post about them I will definitely link back to you.
Thanks for the great idea!
Very cute.
Love how you used paper balls! My son makes them all the time – he can bat them in the house and they don’t break anything – I had wondered if they’d work as a styrofoam substitute, but haven’t tried it yet… Thanks for letting us know it works! They’re beautiful!
1) I love your love for gossip magazines.. always have
2) LOVE those balls, they are SO SO SO cute!
These are really beautiful! I love how you used something you already had instead of the styrofoam. Im going to make these for my daughters birthday next weekend…Thanks so much for sharing such a great idea!