DIY Felt Succulents Series – #5 Flower Succulent

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This is it, folks!  Our last and final DIY Felt Succulent to round out our series –> the flower succulent!  While this felt succulent might take the longest to craft out of all of the felt succulents we have made together so far, I promise you it’s worth it!  The petals and the layers of this succulent will not disappoint.  Definitely a standout piece in your succulent arrangement, no matter how you are choosing to display these faux plants.

New to the Crafty Lefty’s Felt Succulent Series?  Don’t forget to check out the rest of the DIY tutorials below:

Rose Succulent

Star Succulent

Layered Succulent

Cluster Succulent

Now on to our last felt succulent: the flower succulent.  Prefer watching over reading?  No problem!  Click here to watch the DIY Video Tutorial.

Supplies:  All you’ll need for this flower succulent is felt (either stiff or soft, in whatever color you like), fabric scissors (or any sharp scissors), straight pins, hot glue, and the printed pattern.  A few words about this pattern.  I found the original template for the small, medium and large petals here – https://frogprincepaperie.com/wp-content/uploads/flower-petal-templates.pdf. from the Frog Prince Paperie Blog.  She has created these awesome petal designs for a paper flower tutorial.  Well, I loved the shape of these petals, so I decided to use them in a different way to create my felt succulent.  I did shrink these petals a bit to make the succulent, but you can keep the petals the same size, if you wish.

1. First, print and cut out one petal shape of each size – small, medium and large.  Then, pin them to your felt.  You will also need to cut out 3 circle shapes from your felt in 3 different sizes.  These are the diameters of the three circles – 1.5 inches, 0.75 inches, and 0.5 inches.
2. Then, cut out all of your petals from the felt.  This is how many petals I used from the template for each flower size: For the largest flower, I used 7 large petals.  For the medium flower, I used 6 medium petals.  And for the small flower, I used 6 small petals.
3. The thing to keep in mind about this succulent, is that there are 3 flowers are varying sizes – small, medium and large.  The way you build each flower is exactly the same.  Let’s start with the largest flower first.  So fire up that hot glue gun, and place your largest petals and felt circle in front of you.
4. Place a bead of hot glue at the end of one petal along the straight edge, and then pinch your felt petal together to form a crease.  Repeat this with the remaining petals.
5. Now you are ready to glue each petal to the felt circle.  You will be placing a line of hot glue along the backside of the petal, right along the fold line about half way up the petal. 
6. Next, adhere the petal to the middle of the felt circle so that the most creased part of your petal faces inwards.  Please see the image below.
7. After that, begin gluing and placing your petals next to each other all around the circle.  When I did this, I used 7 petals to cover that distance, but feel free to use however many make sense so that your petals are equidistant apart.  Your final flower should look like this.
8. And then, you’ll use that same technique to build your medium flower:and your smallest flower:
9. Now it’s time to stack your three flowers.  You’ll start with the medium flower first, and turn it over.  In the middle of the center circle piece, you’ll put a pretty large glob of hot glue.
10. Immediately turn over that medium flower and line it up with the largest flower behind it so that the petals are staggered.  Essentially, the back of your medium flower’s circle will stick to the front of your large flower’s center petals.
11. Moving on to the smallest flower, do the same thing and add a pretty large blob of glue in the middle of the center circle on the back.
12. Now turn it over, stagger it with the medium flower and apply pressure until it adheres together.
13. This is your final flower succulent!

Please let me know in the comments how you liked this succulent tutorial.  And don’t forget!  We will also be adding 5 unique ways to use felt succulents in your home –> stay tuned for that!