Twig Cross

Twig Cross - Funeral Design

1. We had to go to the woodland area of bishop burton college to collect twigs of different sizes and shapes.




twigs that I got.






2. Once you have all the twigs you need sort them out so you have all type of sizes start placing the long ones in the for the centre and the small ones for the cross itself,

 


the start of the cross.

3. Once you have the cross base where you like it you can use wires to hold it in place.
  Once you have wire all the piceces together and cut off extra wire and push it down to hide it.

the final cross

4. Get your calla lily and wrap about 2in up the stem in the wire and trim it this stop the stem curling up when out of water to long it need the stem cutting under the wire.

5. Once you have done all this on all the  calla lily's you can start to weave the calla lily's in the cross fixing them in the same way as you did the twig's I was trying to get the a line down the centre of the cross.   This is the final design.

 

 

FdA floristry design

Loose wreath design:
As part of my FdA at Bishop Burton College http://www.bishopburton.ac.uk/courses/he/floristry/foundation-degree-floristry-design-fda-he
I have been Given a module to creative contemporary designs, this design is a loose wreath for a funeral.
   We got asked to download all the photos of designs I have done to blogger to showcase what I can do.
I got asked to research the history of funeral flowers and find some inspiration to help with the final design.

Here is what I was able to find out about funeral flowers, in the past the flowers were only used to mask to smell of the dead as sprays and other products were not around back then, there would use herbs inside the coffins and put them on the floor of the Church's so as people walk over them it would crush them releasing there smell.

This is a step by step of how I did the design,


Dry Oasis

1. Start by having a dry oasis wreath 14ins






Wet Oasis
 

2.Wet the oasis wreath in cold water cut the edges of from around the inside and outside smoothing it with your Palm to have a dome effect.



 

 

 

Added a coco brown to the edges and the inside. 

3. Start by adding the coco brown to the outside and inside of the wreath to gave it a nice outdoor effect you glue this on with a hot glue gun been care full of your fingers (its HOT and HURTS)

 

 

Wooden Edge



 

 

4.Do this is all the way around .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Add the foilage to the oasis in different directs but no covering the whole oasis.  

 

6. Flowers are then added .

These were Leather leaf, pitto, kermits, gup, eustoma, dianthus, astrantia, sliver birch and eryngium.

 

7. The Final Design.