Blooming Heart Felt Plant
A Blooming Felt Branch with a Sweet Touch
If you’re in the mood to craft some botanicals, this blooming felt plant is great option for crafters at any skill level. This sweet project can be a fun activity with your little ones, especially if you are wanting to introduce using a hot glue gun. After you’re finished, you can use this branch for a cute piece of home or office decor. We also love this DIY as a clever teacher’s gift for teacher appreciation week or Valentine’s Day!
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Steps
- Gather the tools and materials listed above, and then print the PDF template below.
- Use the template as a guide for cutting your felt pieces in colors of your choice.
- Pinch the bottom of the each leaf to create a vein down the center, then add a dot of hot glue to secure.
- Cut the stem wire to various heights to create the branches.
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Tips
We used various shades of green for visual interest and depth. With this plant you can create as many branches as want – ours includes 10 branches in total, but you can easily make the plant fuller or more minimal depending on your preference. To make the branches a bit tighter, we created smaller bunches by wrapping 2-3 wires together, then combined the smaller bunches into one large arrangement.
We added a red heart at the top of our branch, but of course this is optional! Arrange the leaves to fill out your branches. If you want to dress the branch up a bit, you can paint your terra cotta pot with some acrylic craft paint and add a matching ribbon. We found that this really completed the look, especially if you are giving it as a gift.
More Felt & Botanical Projects
When you finish with your felt plant, head over to our felt projects to see all the possibilities with this material! Learn more about techniques for felt crafting in our Felt 101 video, or browse through our series of beautiful paper potted plants. Find out how you can start crafting with us and give us your project suggestions in the comments below! Cheers ~ Lia & Team
Tools
- Cricut Maker or Silhouette Cameo 4 (optional)
- Detail Scissors
- Low Temperature Hot Glue Gun
- Wire Cutters
Materials
- Lia Griffith’s Wool Blend Felt – Juniper, Fern, Mist, and Cherry
- 18 Gauge Floral Wire
- Cream Floral Tape
- Foam Ball
- Dried Moss
- Terra Cotta Pot
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Back to the TopCan you please provide the svg? And it would be nice if you gave the measurements for the stem base and branches and the size of your pot. It’s all balanced well and takes so much out of trying to guess and figure out the size of everything. It’s really adorable!
The SVG is up! Unfortunately we don’t have those details for this project, but definitely understand what you mean and are including more details in our current projects!
Thank You!!!
I’m going to be making these teacher gifts! What size pot do you suggest? It’s hard to tell from the photo how big it should be 😊 thanks!!
Great idea! A pot 4-5″ high would work great.
Perfect, thank you!!
Thank you so much!! Love your site and inspirational art!
Thanks for the love!
Hi Lia,
Do you have any tips/method for cutting many small pieces of felt? Sometimes pins are too large. Is there a way to adhere the pattern to the felt to cut around?
Sometimes we’ll trace the pattern using a washable fabric marker or pen on the opposite side of the material. For really small pieces we like to use small embroidery scissors!