Repurposed Cake Mold Sunflower DIY
Sunflowers are the queens of the late summer garden! They stand tall and proud over their neighbors and can’t help but bring a smile to your face. Today I’m going to share an easy Repurposed Cake Mold Sunflower DIY with an old bakeware pan I picked up thrifting recently. {“Styling Tip: On the Hunt for Fall Textures”}.
Repurposed Cake Mold Sunflower DIY
It was just asking me to make it into a sunflower for my early fall styling!
Here’s what I dug out of the basement: brown felt, a styrofoam cone, my brown buttons jar, and some leftover hydrangea leaves from my sister’s wedding 10 (!) years ago (I made some big wreaths for that extravaganza).
And of course my trusty glue gun!
I cut the styro cone to fit into the center hole of the cake mold pretty tightly. Then I glued some felt around it to cover the styro.
Then I started gluing on brown buttons to create the sunflower seed heads. I tried to cover all the felt.
Tip: To eliminate hot glue strings, heat with a regular hair drier to melt away when finishing your project.
When I had the brown felt all filled with buttons, I hot glued the brown seedhead into the cake mold middle and added a couple more around the base.
Oooh, I like! This is what I pictured when I rescued the cake mold from the thrift store shelf!
Now for some leaves…
More hot glue…don’t you love how easy it all is with a hot glue gun?
And then a little stretch of leather for a hanger:
Voila’!
An easy Cake Mold Sunflower, created while I watched the solar eclipse pass over the U.S.A!
I think this will start off my early fall decorating just perfectly!
And that’s only the beginning of Sunflower Week! Grab a bouquet while you’re getting groceries and see if you have any extra cake molds laying around to create one of these!
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Really cute. I don;t think I know anyone who doesn’t like sunflowers!
So true, Kathy!
I love this idea. Great job!
Thanks, Rebecca!
Love your sunflower Lora. Great repurpose!!!
Think your strainer flowers inspired me, Tuula! Thanks:)
SO cute, Lora! Thanks for sharing @ Vintage Charm! Pinned!
Thanks for pinning, Cecilia!
This is so adorable and such a clever idea!
Thanks, Marie!
Thanks, Tania! It was a fun, easy project! And I’m loving looking at it in my back entry!