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.