The idea for my Winter Ice Flowers MOC began with using transparent parts for flowers. I’d been building all the botanical sets I could get my hands on, and I wanted more! But they’re trickier than they look…
These transparent light blue and orange snowflake sprays were one of my earliest ideas, because I could figure out how to build them! LEGO has made that snowflake part in other colors. I’d love to try this with them someday too.
I knew I wanted to use these gem parts, and I decided to go with transparent dark purple, since there weren’t as many parts available in it. But building the globe type flowers for these ice alliums took a lot of figuring. Most of the ways I’d seen used non-ideal connection methods like putting studs in flywheels — until the Wildflower Bouquet came out. I borrowed some of the connection types used in those flowers here.
I love the tooth plate part, and it’s been made in so many transparent colors! That transparent bright green cockpit seemed perfect for leaves, too. The way the buds came together is one of my favorite part combinations — it looks really great all in transparent light blue, too.
This large cockpit flower was one of my early ideas too, but it took a lot of work to figure out the design. It needed to be sturdy enough to support the weight, and the center felt boring until those great flame pieces with the clips came out.
So worth it in the end, I think!
And the pink umbrella flowers were a fairly simple early idea too. I really wanted to use a transparent pink minidoll skirt piece as a partially-open flower, but I couldn’t figure out how to make the connections work, sadly. I like how the stems droop here — I wanted them to feel a bit like flowers bowed down with ice.
Here they are arranged together in the final Winter Ice Flowers MOC!
If you like these flowers too, you can support my idea on the LEGO Ideas platform! If it receives enough support, it could become a set someday — and then you could build them too!