Floral Designs

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A couple of GoY member’s have been asking me about some of the different/unusual designs that I’ve made…

Jack Daniels?

My brief was to make a bottle of Jack Daniels out of flowers on a Tray with a glass…!!
The bottle was carved into shape using a couple of blocks of oasis, and a good Kitchen carving knife! To make it realistic, I decided to use a real drinks tray and a cheap Whisky glass! However, the real fun started when we tried to use glue to fasten the bottle to the tray! Not at all easy… especially as the oasis needed to be wet to hold the flowers!

The Chrysanthemum were as near as I could find to the colour of the actual drink! Unfortunately(?), OH and I only drink wine – How was I going to get hold of the bottle’s labels? I needed to visit a Pub (or two) to ask if they had an empty bottle that I could use… Unfortunately, the weather was bad at this time (it was the start of a snowy period!) and I didn’t have time to drive around any of the local Public Houses in these parts, so it was my Sister Penny to the rescue! Thankfully, my nephew drank JD and didn’t mind my Sister steaming the labels off his bottle! The labels were then dried and sent in the snail post to me! And yes, they did arrive in time!!!
I then had to send OH off to the local Staples shop, to have the labels enlarged and photocopied to match the size of the bottle. (This was done while I’m making the bottle up in flowers!) Unfortunately, Staples were unable to make the photocopies due to copyright laws… But if OH pressed the start button… then that was OK!!! (Thank goodness!!!)

The Bottle top was made up using an old Lenor fabric conditioner top, and covered in black sticky tape… ! For the actual glass of JD, I made up some thick orange jelly, and then wired up screwed up cellophane which looked like ice!
Voila! Anyone for a JD???!

A Welsh Miners Lamp

The lamp was made in a 3D style and based onto an oasis pillow shape frame. I made up and pleated the ribbon edge in the colours of the Welsh flag.

A Modern Cool Coloured Summer Garden Arrangement

The flowers in these arrangements are placed at different heights – just how you would find them growing in the garden. The arrangement also shows a completely different view of the garden on all four sides.
It’s one of my favourite designs… ;o)

A “Hot” Summer Garden Arrangement

This is one of my favourite gardens I’ve ever done – Probably because it’s in the range of some of my favourite colours :o)))
I had a special request for this arrangement to be made with a solar Lantern…!

…and a Bird’s Eye View

Who can remember Del Boy’s Reliant Robin?

I decided that the base should be a Road, so I spray painted some leaves black and pinned them onto the oasis pillow shaped base – While I was doing this, my OH carved the car’s shape out of two blocks of oasis! These were then pinned to the “pillow” using Bar-b-que sticks! OH made the roof rack and wing mirrors out of thick floristry wire… The Wheels/tyres were made from the lids of coffee jars, and sprayed black.
Here is the final result!

And a view from above

Have made many more unusual pieces but I don’t have the pictures in digital form… Will put some more on when I’ve time to scan them!!!

Have just learnt that you cannot add pictures into a blog once it has been Published!

Here are three other pictures taken of the hot garden for Scotsgran – Hope you like these!

• 12 Feb, 2014
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