DIY Moss Initials

On my last post I mentioned that I had to buy a couple of Styrofoam initials to bring my total up to more than ten dollars in order to use my debit card.

When I brought them home, I wasn't exactly sure what i was going to do with them. I always knew I wanted to try to make these lovelies with silk flowers.

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However, after looking around for silk flower prices I was taken back! Freaking $3.99 per stem? That would not be a cheap DIY project. I couldn't justify spending the money on this project so I forgot about it and the initials ended up in some corner of our apartment.

On one of our many trips to Downtown L.A, looking for our favors we went to a craft store called MOSKATEL. I think it's from the Michael's Stores. Everything you find at Michael's, you find it here. While walking around looking for tiny glass containers, I found a bag of beautiful green moss. It was just laying around as if someone changed their mind and didn't want to buy it after all. I grabbed the bag (again, with no idea on what to use it for) and checked out.


So after having the bag of moss just laying around, I decided to sit down and come up with some ideas on how to use it. I was just sitting there with nothing in mind and then I saw the initials! Why didn't I think of it sooner? After all, the green moss fits perfectly with our color scheme. So I took my glue gun out and got to work. With only one letter down, my glue gun decided to stop working, lucky for me, my FMIL has one and she let me borrow it to finish the project.

I know this would have worked better with a green initial, but i made do with what i had in hand and I love how it turned out! It was very easy, all i did was hot glue the moss onto the initials. I pressed hard when attaching the moss to the hot glue to make sure it was properly attached. My fingers were in pain after all the burning with the super hot glue but I'd do it again! (only maybe with green letters lol). In the pictures you can see some white spots but in person you cant really tell, honest! To attach the ribbon, I simply made a hole and inserted the ribbon right at the middle of the top.



I'm planning on hanging these at the entrance gates to the reception site. Are you incorporating your initials in any of the decor?