DIY Paper Ivy Topiary
It is time to bring some spring and a touch of green into my decor! The first thing that comes to my mind is a topiary, inspired by an English garden and one of my favorite shows. . . Downton Abby that just started its new season. Yay!
This adorable little green arrangement is the perfect way to bring some height to a vignette or add an element of nature to your dinning table, window ledge or mantle. For my topiary I chose the ivy leaf, you could use any leaf that could be cut to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes. I love that these pretty topiaries are so versatile, also perfect in wedding decor or at a baby shower.
Last year I made a DIY topiary with crepe paper so this year I decided to make one with metallic paper. It is quite elegant for a diy paper ivy topiary and is it just me or does it look real? For me the trick to making it look like the live version is mixing the colors as well as folding the score lines.
For the mix of paper colors I chose Basis Green (or Moss if you want a metallic paper), Metallic Fairway, Extract Cactus, Pop Tone Sour Apple. Thank you to Paper-Papers.com who is hosting today’s PDF and SVG file. You can pop right over there and download them and join me in creating a little Downton touch for your home or event. Enjoy! ~ Lia
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Emilly Singh
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Leave a CommentHi Lia,
When i follow the link it says that the page is unavailable. Have you posted the SVG or PDF anywhere else?
Hi Emily, thanks for the heads up! The links are working correctly now.
The same is happening for the orchid
Thanks, that one is fixed, too! Paper Papers updated their website last year and changed the URL so we’re finding most links are broken now. We’re updating them this week 🙂
hola Lia, me encanta tu pagina todo esta divido, donde podrÃa encontrar las plantillas de hoja de hiedra.
Muchas gracias.
You can find the template over at Paper-Papers.com at the bottom of the post.
What machine and cartridge did you use to cut the Ivy? I have the regular cricut and been looking for an Ivy leaf.
Hi Shana, this is my design (not from a cartridge), and you can find the SVG file in the link in the post. I have a Cricut Explore Air 🙂
So elegant and beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing – can you tell me what kind of glue you used to adhere the ivy to the styrofoam?
Thank you! I just used a low temp hot glue gun 😉
These are beautiful! What kind of glue did you use to adhere the leaves to the styrofoam?
I used a low temp glue gun for this 🙂
great idea! I will try it for my mothers 80th birthday decoration ! Thank you so much for this lovely idea!
How fun! Happy Birthday Mom!
Beautiful! I’m so inspired to try and make these.
I hope you will enjoy it! I still have my two out in the living room.
Thank you for the info on the color wash!!!! I just bought the Cricut Explore AIR from HSN and can’t wait to try this .
Congrats on your new machine! It will make cutting a breeze, too bad you didn’t get my bundle from Michaels with the 22 free projects. Had to keep the release mum:-) You can still use all the projects on my site. Have fun!!!
I luv luv this idea….. I have a question please. When the instructions say “print wate color wash on green paper” how is that achieved ? Thank you in advance.
I have included the watercolor wash pattern as a pdf in the post. Just print the watercolor wash on a green paper to get the effect.
Where would you say this ranks on the difficulty scale? And do you happen to remember how long it took you to make one?
They’re so beautiful!
It is actually fairly easy and a lot of impact!! About 1 hour including the cutting (if you have a personal cutting machine) good luck!!!
Beautiful – and the gold leafing adds sheer elegance 😀
Thank you, I love gold leaf. So simple and yet such an impact:)
Beautiful. Just wish you had a “Print Here” button so we could get your instructions in printable form!!
If you double click on the image you can print from there:)
What gorgeous topiaries! You’ve done it again! Thank you for sharing these with us. From the photos, I’d guess that the foam balls are about 5″ and 3″. It also looks like you used about 3 sheets of each color green for the leaves. Is that right? Any guidance you can provide is helpful. Thanks again! Debi
Spot on!! You got a good eye for this:)
So adorable! I rarely comment, but wanted to let you know that I enjoy each one of your tutorials that arrives in my email inbox. Keep up the creativity. It makes my day!
You just made my favorite comment of the day.
Love this and have to make it . Can you give me an idea how many leaves I need to cut out for a foam ball . Also what size ball do you recommend .
Thanks Sue
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I used a 3″ and a 5″ styrofoam ball and about 3-4 sheets of each color. Have fun!!!
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