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[americanbeauty.livejournal.com]

I'm the co-organizer for The Vagina Monologues at my university and my production crew thought that we could make rose corsages out of tampons for VDay this week. I was hoping I could have sometime to work on them today but I don't have any instructions. I googled it and didn't come up with anything.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and ultimatly how to create one?

Thanks!

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[nss.livejournal.com]

I don't remember how to make the roses, but I do have the instructions for a tampon angel:
-Wet fingers and flick water onto tampon until it fluffs up. Spray with gold glitter paint and let dry.
-Glue a round wooden bead (head) to top and paint a face on. Glue hair on.
-Glue a piece of chenille stem to back and bend to the front for arms. Glue a flower in her arms.
-Bend a piece of shiny gold chenille stem into a halo shape and glue to head.
-Glue pre-made or purchased wings to back.
-Hang with tampon string.

But that's for christmas. =(

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[doulachar.livejournal.com]

hmm. Seems the same concept could work for a tampon rose. I'm thinking this all out in my head as I sit here, so I have no idea if it would work!

Supplies:
Tampons (I'd suggest o.b.)
florist wire (26-24 gage, you want it to stay relatively straight)
silk leaves
florist tape
spray paint?
scotch tape

Open up the tampon with a spray of water like above, try to keep the area by the string dry. At this point you *could* spray paint it red and let it dry, but that could be a little disturbing looking.

Stick a wire into the string end of the tampon, and wrap the string around the wire. You can hold it on with the scotch tape. You might need to trim the base of the 'flower' to get a beter taper from the petals to the wire.

Wrap the base of the flower and wire with the florist tape. Add a few leaves as you go.

Taadaaa! It could be a rose, or it could look a complete disaster :)

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[nss.livejournal.com]

yeah i think that would be good.
what about cherry syrup? That's a deep crimson that's good... but don't ask me how you're gonna keep the ants away...

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[americanbeauty.livejournal.com]

I did it! I used the instructions that were posted here but I modified it a little. I wrapped wire around the bottom quarter of the tampon to make sure it was stiff and to tie the string up with. Then I wrapped a leaf around. Then I covered it all in florists tape and tried to taper the end a little bit. Then I fanned the top out. Pretty! Tomorrow I am going to used watered down tempra paint to paint them red and pink. They are truly lovely!

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[thatheathergirl.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's what I was thinking...