Handmade Copper Tulips - 7th Anniversary Gift, Unique Home Decor, Metal Flowers

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These copper garden art flowers will bloom all year round and I hope that the copper will patina into a lovely green color as they weather outdoors. Cordless Drill/Drill Press/Dremel/Hand Drill - as long as it can take a 5mm (3/16" or thereabouts) drill bit, you're good. Calla Lilies are known as representing the ‘magnificence of beauty’ and this Burnt Amber Calla Lily certainly lives up to the reputation. It is simply gorgeous in its sophisticated design and colors. Look at those rich hues and how they blend so well! 7. Saffron Hydrangea Spring Breeze Copper is a perennial wallflower. The pretty copper-orange flowers are scented, and attract bees and butterflies. The foliage is evergreen with narrow grey-green leaves. 24. Tillandsia Crocata Penny Orange

When I cut the aluminum cans into a daisy, I liked the look and ability to mold the metal. But aluminum just doesn’t have the shine that I was hoping for. I set out to hunt for sheets of copper to make garden art flowers. I found 5 mil (36 gauge) copper sold by the sheet that cut like butter and looks brilliant in the garden beds. The blooms have a natural wax coating that gives them a glow and helps them to stay looking beautiful for longer. Truly a divine plant! 6. Burnt Amber Calla Lily These lovely fall flowers have long-lasting hardiness and versatility. They look gorgeous in a garden and also, due to their resilience and strength, are great in corsages, bouquets and flower arrangements. 3. Copper Thistle Like a burst of copper flames, this stunning Copper Bronze Spider Mum, or Chrysanthemum, is a lovely shade of coppery orange. The blooms are full and add depth and texture to any floral arrangement. A garden full of these delightful blooms would be a sight to behold!

I happen to have the last three things lying around at home or in my school workshop, so I didn't put links as to where I got them from - if you do happen to fund a good source for some, just put it in the comments and I'll add it in. This is very important - if you don't do this right, you won't be able shape the rose later. Take the next square, and align it with the first. Then, align the fourth with the second. Finally, simple thread the rectangle on top - it doesn't really matter about alignment, though I make it in line with the third out of habit. So, after lots of requests from the internet and my friends, I thought I'd upload a step-by-step guide to making a rose out of sheet copper and steel/brass rod. Of course, this is not a definitive guide - I saw a similar flower on the internet and wasn't completely satisfied with it, so modified it to suit what I wanted in a project. So feel free to adapt and change as you go along; as long as you don't just steal my idea and call it your own, I'm fine with it. A big, big thank you to everyone who did vote for this in the Valentines 2013 Contest - I won! Thank you so much, it was an incredible surprise. Also, a big thank you to my very tolerant parents, my helpful DT teacher, and Jeffery Santo at Darkmoon Metals, who gave the initial inspiration for this project.

it doesn't really matter how you do this, as long as you end up with four 50mm squares, and one 50mmx25mm rectangle) The Turk’s Head cactus can be identified by the cephalium that protrudes from the top. The copper coloring of the ‘cap’ is why this fascinating plant is included. This is a tall, bearded, Iris in a simply divine hue. The ruffled edges of the petals and sepals and the coloring, as well as the absolutely gorgeous design of the Iris blossom, make this a scintillating plant to own! 18. Austrian Copper Rose The Ameilia’s Kaleidoscope Begonia has a kaleidoscopic form of coppery- bronze juvenile leaves that become chartreuse-lime as they mature. There’s a netting pattern to the leaves. The colors are richer and deeper in the summertime. Pink flowers erupt in winter. 27. Caladium Desert SunsetCut all the corners off each blank. You want to remove enough copper so that you end up with something that looks like this:

Few words before I begin (skip ahead if you want, nothing here's essential): This is my first attempt, ever, at making a guide to a metalworking project (or actually to a project of any sort) - whilst I have guided friends through making things in person, I've never tried to communicate steps just via words and pictures. So this is a new type of challenge for me, and the outcome may not be perfect. That said, I know that I may make steps too complex/it's fairly easy to be misunderstood, so if you do want clarity on a particular step, just comment and I'll do my best to fill you in. This is a fairly simple metalworking project, as there is no welding of any kind involved, which can sometimes dissuade beginners. Grab your crosspeen hammer, and turn it over so you're using the flat (regular) side. Using firm, regular strikes, hammer the edges of each petal thin, on both sides - you want to make them so that they can be easily curled at the edges. It doesn't matter that much if you mark the copper, as we're just about to start texturing it. Note: this project is sponsored by Spellbinders who provided me with a Platinum 6 machine. What happened next was all my own creation! Garden Therapy readers have a special discount for the new machine as well, so be sure to grab the code at the end of this post. How to Make Copper Garden Art Flowers Ok, so you should now have all your copper blanks, and a stem with a nut on it. Assembly is not as simple as you might think...In the photos, I'm going to be making two roses (to demonstrate the normal method, and the workaround method) so don't worry if what you're doing doesn't match up exactly - though everything should be obvious enough. Repeat with the other petal of the rectangle, but form it around the first petal to form a 'bud'. Now, use your pliers to bend up, shape and curve the next 16 petals to your liking - I can't really be much help here, as it's all down to what your idea of a rose is. However, I can tell you what I do. I normally bend and curve the first 8 (top two layers of squares) quite severely upwards and inwards, to form a larger bud. I then steadily reduce the angle of the bends for the next two layers, to make it so the bud is opening out. RELATED: In For a Penny: Guide to Copper Trees (inc. 22 Different Types) 16. Copper Beauty Cymbidium Orchid Hailing from Brazil, the Tillandsia crocata has a beautiful fragrance. The flowers are usually yellow, but this variety has coppery orange flowers. The plant has narrow, long leaves. 25. Dwarf Turk’s Cap Cactus

Now, flip the hammer over so you're using the crosspeen head. Begin to strike the edges of the petals, to create a series of radial indents that all point towards (or thereabouts) the centre of the petal. This gives each petal a nice texture. Don't worry about texturing the centre of each petal, as it won't be seen. It's important to be brave here and strike quite forcefully - you're looking for something that looks like this:Remove the corners that you have now exposed, to create four individual petals. File all those new cut edges to remove any toolmarks. Then, use your soft mallet to hammer the copper flat. It doesn't matter if the petals overlap slightly, we'll sort that out later.