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Evergreen Centerpiece
With this pretty evergreen centerpiece on your table this year, guests will think you bought it from a florist! Make a couple to display, one for dinner and one for the living room.
You will need:
One small squeeze bottle gold glitter paint
three pinecones
4 1/2" x 3 1/2" floral foam, cut to extend 2" above container rim
Thin wire
Juniper sprigs: eight 10" long, four 9" long, one 7" long
Twelve 7" long sprigs spruce or balsam
Eight 4" - 6" long sprigs white pine
Six 5" - 6" long sprigs holly
Three 2 1/2" long floral picks with wire attached
Waterproof floral tape
Six red carnations
2 yards 1/4" wide gold metallic ribbon
Five white roses
6" diameter x 2" container
Tools needed:
Sharp knife or pruning shears
Scissors
Wire cutters
Preparation:
Gently squeeze the gold glitter paint onto pinecone tips. Let paint dry for
to or three hours.
Cover the floral foam with water and let it soak ten minutes.
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Using the knife, scrape the needles from the bottom 1" of all greenery
sprigs.
Attach a floral pick to each pinecone by wrapping the wire tail around the
pinecone. Wrap floral tape around the pick.
Using the knife, trim the stems of the red carnations as follows: two to
7" long, two to 6" long, two to 5" long.
Cut the gold metallic ribbon into five 14" long pieces. Make a four-loop
bow with each length of ribbon. To do so, cut a 4" length of thin wire with
the wire cutters. Then make a double circle with a piece of ribbon. Bend
the wire in half around the middle of the ribbon, tightly twisting the two
tails of wire together. Pinch ribbon loops into a bow. Cut tails of bow on
the diagonal. Repeat with remaining ribbon.
With the knife, cut the stems of four white roses to 6" long and the stem
of one white rose to 5" long.
Assembly:
FIG 1 |
Place water soaked floral foam in the
container. Secure foam to the container by crisscrossing it with floral tape
and sticking the tape to the container rim. Insert the 10" sprigs of juniper
into the short sides of the foam. Insert the 9" sprigs of juniper close to
the middle of the foam angled toward the corners. Position the 7" sprig of
juniper in middle of foam (FIG 1).
FIG 2 |
Put the sprigs of spruce into the floral
foam around the bottom and around the center. Insert the white pine sprigs
evenly throughout arrangement. Place four sprigs of holly at opposite sides
of the arrangement and add two holly sprigs to the middle (FIG 2).
Place the pinecones toward the top of the arrangement around the sprigs of
holly in the center.
FIG 3 |
Put 7" carnations at opposite short
sides of the floral foam underneath the holly. Place 6" carnations into the
long sides of the foam next to the holly. Insert 5" carnations at top of
the foam between the pinecones (FIG 3).
Add the bows randomly to the arrangement, Insert four of the roses into the
sides of the foam between the junie=per and the pinecones (photo). Place
the fifth rose in the center. Fill container with water.
Check the water level daily to be sure the container is filled. To keep the
flowers fresh, occasionally remove them from the foam, snip 1/4" to 1/2"
from their stems and replace.
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About the Author:
These crafts courtesy of Family Circle
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