How To Make A Painted Watercolor Bouquet Cut-Out

A festive painted bouquet cut-out for the front door might just be the touch of Fall you’re looking for? Honestly, I created this watercolor bouquet a few good years back, for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, but I just saw the image on my site and thought that it could actually be great for Fall decor as well, especially if you change up the colors just a bit.

I just love painting flowers and cutting them out, as with the water color poppies cut outs, and am also really pleasantly surprised by how wonderful a bouquet of painted flowers can be as well, especially when you free it from the confines of the paper! Of course a bouquet of flowers drawn and then painted, like this one, is all about planning, and execution, so after all that effort, you will want to use it again and again, or even hang it somewhere in a frame, and you should! The more flowers the better, and painted ones add so much joy where ever they are hung! With possibly some time to spare before Chanukah, and a current month which has no Jewish holidays, maybe now is the time to delve into something like this, or maybe you have a special family occasion for which this would be perfect? Okay, lets delve into how this paper bouquet was created, shall we?

You’ll Need:

water color paper, mine is large, 35 x 50 cm, you can always tape two sheets together as you need the length for the flower stems
gouche paint or watercolor, or anything you have on hand!
a black permanent marker, medium weight/ fine, and a white gel pen or fine paint marker
a pencil and scissors

How To:

Look at some illustrations of flower bouquets for inspiration, or just copy mine if you like. The main thing is a nice variety of flower sizes, types and leaf types.
With a pencil, draw your bouquet on the paper, and get the proportions looking good.
Choose at least one color that will pop, and use that on the largest flowers (if your composition includes a few large flowers, recommended!)
Have fun painting the rest of the bouquet in a nice variety of colors.
Now outline and add details with the black pen, but don’t over do it. Add white details with the white gel pen. (You can go over your pencil lines in black pen before painting if you prefer.)
Take a good look at the results, and if certain flowers could really bigger, or any elements aren’t a nice as they could be, simply paint new ones on the water color paper scraps, and glue them on. I did just that with the bigger round gold flowers as some of them were just too small.
Now cut out your masterpiece and enjoy!
I taped my to the front door with some duck tape, the easiest option, but you may want to tape a loop of wire to the back.

A paper bouquet of flowers is so much fun to create, and wonderful to hang. It would be lovely in a child’s bedroom or nursery, in the kitchen, over a bed, anywhere!

I do love this, and was thinking maybe I ought to trace it and make a pattern for embroidery and/or applique, now that could be truly something! Or maybe I ought to print some stickers to use on gifts, or make a t-shirt for a friend, ah yes or even a poster for myself? Lucky us, that is today’s world when we create something there are so many ways to reproduce the image to enjoy yourself or gift, and who doesn’t love a bouquet of flowers?

Of course I also have some ideas for products, but I’ll keep those to myself just in case it happens one day?