Hi Everyone
Some pretty pinwheels to share today and don’t forget to check out and see if you won last week’s awesome giveaway!
These make fabulous decorations, party / shower invitations or you could make a bunch just to brighten up a room. These are all made with papers from the Sweet Day Collection from Echo Park Paper.
I cut these pinwheels using my Cameo, but you can certainly hand cut them or search online for free printables and templates too. Here is the link to the Cameo file – 3d flower pinwheel.
Now there are some instructions on the Silhouette website as to how you can assemble your pinwheel to make it fully functional – but I decided to make it purely decorative – which was much easier.
Once you have cut your shape (with your machine or by hand) create the pinwheel shape by folding the petals over one at a time and threading the holes onto a pin, cocktail or upside down brad (which is what I used). After a couple you will figure out the best technique for you – but I definitely suggest using a brad to secure all the petals together.
I then used some plain wooden buttons with bakers twine through the holes as a simple centre and hot glued the button to the centre of the flower.
To create the stem of the pinwheel, I covered a doweling rod in patterned paper and then hot glued that to the back.
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5 Comments
Great pinwheels! Love that you covered the dowels too!
These pinwheels are awesome!
These are so cute! I love pinwheels.
LOVE these pinwheels! Pinning now. 🙂
These turned out so sweet!