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One Little Project
PINE CONES painted to look like LILAC’S – Love this so much!
via –> Becca Horner
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Materials:
Flowers
- Pine cones – $.50 – $1 x 12 = $12
- Wire – $1
- Floral Tape – $1
- Long picks – $.50@ = $6
- Lilac, pink, plum and/or white colored paints to spray them – $7 per color of a can of paint
- Silk leaves – $.25-$.50@ – $6
Jar or Can
- A can, jar or vase – free
- Burlap ribbon – $4 – $6 per bolt, About $1 for a yard
Tools:
- Wire cutters
- Plastic gloves
- Hot glue gun and sticks
Cost – Bouquet = $20-$32
Cost – Burlap covered can or jar –
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Collect Your Pine cones
Collect and clean the debris off your pine cones.
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Painting The Pine Cones
For my pine cones I used Rustoleum brand spray paint. Put your hand in a plastic bag and grab the cones but the point where it came of the branch. I use my old plastic grocery bags for this as I can toss them when through.
Once clean and dry, try spray painting some. Try to perfect your colors. Using spray paint. After thinking about how these were done, I did not think dipping them in the paint would do it. I tried plum, lavender, white, blue and pink. Just experimenting coverage. The ones below are not the final deal.
Blue
I like the way the blue covered. The pine cone looks like my wisteria in the garden and probably could also be used for an imitation wisteria flower in a wreath or something. They need spraying in two parts one doing the top of the cone by holding its stem then the second spraying is holding the opposite end of the cone. You can tell this was the first spray as the stem is still brownish where I held it and yes, by all means use some gloves!
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Plum
For a lilac, I think the color is too dark and I tried lightly coating one.
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White
I just gave it a light coat. Thought I would experiment with the white as using white on pine cones, the white could also resemble snow.
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Pink
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Sample
Well, just a side by side of each other than pink. I think I still need to do some experimenting with the colors!
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Basket – Fall – Blue Basket Of Pine Cones – #665-03
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Wiring
More to come!
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1 - KARE'S FLORALS AND CRAFTS 
I saw this lovely idea on Facebook the other day and thought I have to do this. I showed the photo to my husband and for a second he was fooled and thought they really were lilacs and here at the ranch we have just gone through one of winter’s last stand with some snow flurries and our lilac bushes were budded out a lot. I kept thinking how cruel winter was to those beautiful flowers! Thankfully I think their flowers survived, but when I saw this I was smitten with having to try this project. And so it begins!. Stay tuned as I craft my own and let you know how to do it!
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Updated. Today I experimented spray paining my pinecones to look like lilac flowers…In conclusion, I have a way to go to get to my liking, but so far this project is satisfying and I cannot wait to do more on it.
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I received a question today from a viewer. She writes –
Is there a way that I can order the paint colors that you used for the lilac pine cones?
I just used the colors available at my local hardware store and used the Rustoleum brand of spray paint. For the lilac cones, I just used the colors at my local hardware store. Lilac, Purple, White, plum, light blue, pink and magenta.
I also use other colors for different flowers like for making Zinnias like yellows, oranges, reds and pinks. For the Zinnias, I cut the pine cones in half. I don’t have any Zinnia projects up on my pages yet and hope to do some this spring when I can get outdoors to spray. All the paints for the pine cone projects are in spray cans I am sorry I do not have the number to the paints. but I used Rustoleum brand if that helps.
Also, I also use other colors for different flowers like for making Zinnias like yellows, oranges, reds and pinks. For the Zinnias I cut the pine cones in half. I don’t have any Zinnia projects up on my pages yet and hope to do some this spring when I can get outdoors to spray. All the paints for the pine cone projects are in spray cans I am sorry I do not have the number to the paints. but I used Rustoleum if that helps.
Thank you for your question and be sure to visit back as I will be adding more details to this page in the not to distant future.
Kare
PS – If you subscribe to the subscription on the craft page you should be able to get an email notification when I add to projects in this blog. And please feel free to comment or contact back with any questions.
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I received another question about this project “How do I treat the pine cones to use them for crafts?
You can bake them in the oven
Gather pine cones from your yard or a forest, they should be relatively dry and free of debris.
You will need a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or tinfoil. A standard baking sheet is used for baking method of cleaning pine cones.
Aluminum Foil: Line the baking sheet with aluminum foil. It will catch any resin drips and make cleanup easier.
Turn oven on at 250 and bake for 1 hour. This will dry them out, and remove any bugs and the heat should open them.
I have used them without baking without any problem and spray painted some without baking. The pitch or resin will take to the paint and give it an antique look.
I have not noticed problems with bugs in any pine cones that we have used and generally my pine cones sit around for a long time before using them.
Baking pretty much is more for drying them out so you can use them sooner. Some say it is a must, all I can say is the dryer they are, the more readily they can be used for crafting. Air drying for a period time does the same thing, just takes longer. It also pops the seeds out.
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