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hi in this episode we're going to make a wonderful dry flower arrangement of all naturally dried flowers a lot of which I've harvested some I purchased some were left over from events that I was able to dry and everything has been color enhanced with design Mastrocola tools I use just for flowers for a lot of them and we'll talk about that and various other aspects of it throughout our arrangement so let's just get started I'm gonna do for the mechanics instead of foam I'm going to use syndicate sails six inch pillow and I think it's a neat application of this mechanics it makes it a lot easier I think to design and it's a unusual mechanic for a dried flower arrangement but works really well I love it we're going to use this really cool classic urn and I'll take you step-by-step through the whole design I use anytime I use a container especially glass or metallic or non-porous I will clean the edges because I'm going to tape to this I'll clean the edges with alcohol rubbing alcohol I keep these little swabs around on keeping my toolkit they come in very handy but no other cleaning material believes a clean surface or as clean of surface is alcohol does everything else leaves a residue which means when you take to it it could make the tape not as secure as it needs to be so I'll dry it off with a cloth and that should give us a prepared surface a really nicely prepared surface for that like I said I'm going to be using the six inch syndicate sales pillow for the mechanics of this and it makes it really simple you just need a container with a nice well something for the stems to go down into just like you would for a fresh flower arrangement I know this is mostly used for fresh flowers so I love this application for it I use black Gorilla Tape lots of times for my mechanics to take my mechanics together it's so strong and a lot less expensive there'll also be a link for this availability in the description so I will secure the pillow too directly to nothing inside them to earn directly to the top take a strip off so the gorilla tape strips really beautifully so I've stripped off about a little less than a half inch wide piece and I will try to follow some of the natural grid work I'm not going in between the honeycomb cells but try to follow where they're joined so I don't take up any surface space and tape a good 3/4 of an inch to an inch of it press it down and tape it to the vessel push it really hard to make sure that it sticks and I'll do this crisscross wise twice should be enough tape is really strong now this is going to be probably a rather big arrangement and to make it extra secure I'll take a couple of little pieces and go underneath here and crisscross where it is taped because a couple of things it's a dark container and it's black tape so it just gives a little extra security to it so I'm going so you can see a little better just across what's already there make sure it's nice and sturdy because this will be a permanent design or semi-permanent so it's not going to be taken out like it would be as if this pillow was used for fresh flowers so that's the the four places that it meets the container sometimes if I wanted to stick really really well I will use a hairdryer on the highest setting or a heat gun just for a few seconds at ease at each place because it kind of melts it to the actual surface of a container but that's it that's um the mechanics for this is super sturdy the two layers of the pillow allow the stems to before your major placement and then the second layer underneath holds it in place and of course as you do more and more the initial placements will help the last placements as you can progress for a little long become more sturdy and more sturdy so we'll do this the other traditional way we'll start making the framework of the arrangement first so the first points we place will make the size of the arrangement then we fill in towards the center so you'll see that now every um element so I'll choose my smallest grass first this is pampas and every element in this of color-enhanced so like this one I use just for flowers lemon and then I'm very going to dip down to use of the Tigerlily and the stem is actually what is the verde color the fresh green so when you color enhance and as far as proportion goes you can however how you want this one is going to be kind of an asymmetrical triangle I actually know where this is going to live in my home so you know when you know that you can customize it to a certain area and I'm gonna start with the first placement sort of off center as opposed to in the very center but these will be done by briefings and you want to remove as much of the stem as possible because there's going to be a lot of elements in here so you want to make sure to leave room so I'm going generally from the smaller to the larger blossoms as I get more towards the center of the arrangement and sequencing them down with the larger ones towards the bottom so I'll remove a lot of the hook until I get down and draw them down into the very center I love all of these little curls I'll probably have some of those at the very end so you see that makes a grouping I know this is going to be the front of the arrangement even do it I'm gonna finish off the back a little bit in case it ever shows up in a mirror but this will be mostly a one-sided arrangement so we've already established a height and then next let's establish to the left now this is doc that I've harvested and it's such a challenge lots of times to find flowers that are dried that have any kind of curves since so many things that you drive you'll hang upside down but I actually and I'll show an image of this at some corner of the video I actually press this up against elements that would cause it to curve as it dried so that really helps whereas like I said so many drives you don't have any kind of curve to it but you can force it to so when you choose flowers to drive and I'll cover tons more elements in an actual drives class but when you choose flowers to drive they need to be at their peak because as they drive that will like if there's a bruised petal or if it's an older flower anything any blemish will be enhanced as it drives so you want the most beautiful stage of that flower to drive let's make it drink even further so see how we've got these nice curving stems that's often so hard to find like said and dried flowers and it's the more we put in the sturdier the placements will be but I really do like this pillow for this element okay so we've got the tall we've got one side let's do Holliston eucalyptus so this is a pre preserved and pre dyed element a burgundy eucalyptus and let's make a grouping of that define this side of the arrangement there's weeping and silver dollar and some different spirals some different but if we group them they make more of an impact and remain or retaining their individuality we're doing godless we're doing an analogous color scheme which is three or more colors next to one another on a color wheel and it's one of the most popular color schemes it's just really for some reason just really easy for the eye to process and people just love it so it's it's really good at the more you know about colors and the color wheel and gosh just just the aspect of color in design you could spend an entire life learning about that I hear the wonderfully curved pieces and this is various different kinds of eucalyptus but they're all the same color so I'm going to use them together in one grouping now these a lot of these are our darker colors so you see how that is playing along haven't really finished one is much of the back yet but we'll do a really defined grouping I actually tried lots of times in arrangements to have two elements that are the same color if I choose three colors each element walrus will appear twice in it like I have the burgundy mixed eucalyptus I have a burgundy grass I have the golden and yellow pampas and then I have a golden yellow yarrow the kind of coral Protea and some kind of coral roses so each element kind of unifies by repeating it in some way in the element I mean in the arrangement so you can do groupings that are really kind of solid I think we're going to do that which gives this arrangement a little more traditional look dried flowers so often will immediately give you a little bit of a vintage look it's kind of inherent in drives that's just sort of part of when you use drives what they're going to look like so if you they and that also can add a certain to me an integrity to it even though I love faux flowers and there's a way to make those look natural but so many times it's just a drive arrangement is is so appropriate for interiors this is certainly a more traditional look but it does give you that kind of feeling that is as close as you can get to a fresh arrangement and color hansung the materials lots of times so many times dry materials are more somber and darker and enhancing them can give you more color and when you when you enhance the color of a dried flower it is going to remain that color a lot longer because dried flower arrangements ideally should be kept in an interior away from direct sunlight the sunlight causes natural colors of the drives to fade even more which is not a bad thing because part of the nature of a dried arrangement is that it will fade in age and become even more vintage and eventually will have to be replaced but when you color enhance everything like this is a this was natural originally this green color when it was fresh but I used the fresh green design master to enhance that now that it's dried so it will remain that color a lot longer than if you just let it was when you judge if you just naturally dried it it would soften the green and soften fade over time and in about a year or two years you would either want to refresh the color by spraying and some which is not really easy once it's in an arrangement or replace it so if you go ahead and just do it in thread beginning oh you know that the colors are going to last a whole lot longer this is some hydrangea that I'm naturally dried um a lot of the color faded out of it but I tried to replace those with kind of a tan color the fresh green and a little bit of rose color so we're going to use these in the center of the arrangement now let's see I'll go ahead and show you with this really short one the skewers that I love to use so often it's just skewers that you get from any grocery store or wherever you decide to go bamboo so they're really sturdy short short stemmed flowers that are dried you can use stem wrap that is a waxed tape you pull it a little bit and it does not stick but it melts and sticks to itself the heat of your finger as you spiral it and press it and stretch it at the same time you'll get it with practice makes it stick to itself and you can extend the stem length of any dried flower in that way I'm using brown tape you can use black tape various different colors because it'll all really get covered up by the time you make the arrangement but this is going to serve to draw this color it's kind of got color ways of the grasses down into the center of the arrangement some of these already have stems long enough so we'll go from the back placements out to the front so you see this is the back part of the design and the lines so this is really a radial style arrangement which means there's the imaginary centering and all the lines radiate out from that just like the sun rays of the Sun so that's what you're kind of imagining while you are making an arrangement so you'll notice again we are keeping our flowers grouped which is which you don't really see that often in a drying arrangement so many traditional arrangements are just salt and pepper just mixed flowers especially if you're doing a traditional Williamsburg look that was just the nature of that style of design that it was more salt and pepper so I am going to let I let that hydrangea go into the grouping of eucalyptus a little bit so it is a little softer a little more natural not so zoned so going great let's do some of our Bernie grasses so we've got these really cool grasses going to and that's going to repeat our burgundy look let's choose our tallest ones first you're gonna get rid of the little pieces that would normally fall down so you'll see we'll place now these pieces are going towards the back of the arrangement and you can feel how as more and more blossoms get in there they are just serving and themselves to sturdy the arrangement up and it really is easy to get the stems through that pillow it'll get a little more difficult as we go further along but that's just the nature of the beast let's put one more blossom or one more torch of the pampas grass down here and so that's you see how that is a little disconnected there's this empty space and so now look how that draws that element down further since that blossom is a little bit smaller and like we said we're going to do we're trying to do smaller at the top and bigger I'm going to put one right next to it that will give it a little more visual weight so you see how that work that accomplishes that and you can always move things around as you're making there wrench but add some more terior this other Burgundy grass will mix in to the pampas grass just to kind of break that setting up a little bit now we're getting to the point where over halfway finished with the arrangement so we're going to start putting some of the focal pieces let's do so the brightest color I typically put towards the bottom of the arrange but the focal area or the most visually weighted color I'm gonna do that with the arrow I'll choose my biggest blossoms first one wonderful thing about drives you can just break them with your fingers don't have to worry about using the Clippers so they are going to go and the the arrangement will continue to shed while you're making it that's just the nature of the beast so you see I'm adding a lot of depth now notice when I'm putting flowers in and I do this with fresh flowers too if it's a if it runs up against other stems I will spiral the stem whoops left and right as it gets placed in the arrangement it's more likely to deflect off of whatever it's hitting in there so you see from the side how some are deep more deeply in the arrangement and then they come further out so from the front that gives you a lot of depth your draws your eye from up here into the core of the arrangement as opposed to if everything were just the same level it would not be very exciting you definitely would not have as much interest in the arrangement so you want some of it to go deep down towards the lip of the container so it's really unified with the container itself so this is just visual you're checking things out and see it not how you want it to go as far as the placement of the next blossoms we're trying to beef up this color so I'm doing lots of stems right next to previous placements so it just gets bigger and more full and drawing your eye down towards the center of the arrangement so you see how that's going still nothing in the back but see how I used a third of it is towards the back I started the arrangement towards the back of the container so like if you had just to show you a little more clear label when you're doing a one side of arrangement you don't start in the center of the design of the container other you start towards the back that leaves you the entire front part of the arrange of the Oasis or foam or whatever you're using the whole front part of the arrangement so there's very little towards the back so you're starting on this on the back third instead of starting in the center also if you started in the center most of your weight would be towards the front of the container and it would be very likely to topple over get rid of some of this a little bit better so let's see what we're doing we'll draw a little bit of this color up into the designs and the latest in long and apart those previous placements and that just solely draws that color up a little bit further let's see what we have left some dried roses these were super super muddy as they dried which that often happens that's why another reason why you have to pick a flower either at its most vibrant or just prior to it and because as it dries it's going to defend too sometimes to a neutral but I use not the just for flowers but of more pea color tool to color enhance these and they are a little fragile but they're not that bad roses if you're drying them yourself it's best to take off the thorns and most of the foliage in the beginning because it's not as easy to take them off and as you as the as the dried version by the time it gets dried it's a lot harder to take off so still we're putting the grouping of the roses in a grouping kind of a different shade of the burgundy coral color oh that one like see you have to be real careful and notice that one just gave up the ghost like I'm not going to take it out and just cut the stem off that's why it's really best to have more than you think you'll need but one of the main things about a drive arrangement and I started in when I started in the industry the labels for Brooke was really popular and the first thing you learn is dried flowers are made to look at not touch so once you make the arrangement you know em you should never really touch it again if at all possible with that one just completely exploded so that looks good now I've saved my dried Protea to last I have color enhanced this for sure with some nice Tigerlily kind of make it kind of orangey and some fresh green to freshen up the foliage but we're going to save this and make a cluster of it towards the center and it will be more of a really enhance the focal area so some of the bigger blossoms down deep amongst the hydrangea so you see how the hydrangeas just giving up the ghost while we make it but that will all stop once we get finished and we will not touch it again so you see how that is working a really great leave some of the stems are kind of long and also draw this grouping up a little farther so kind of spiraling it to the left and right and it just helps it shimmy its way down into the arrange let's do a really tall one to give a break in all these grasses at the very top now put it in till I felt it was really secure so you have that heavy and then lighter until it draws up into the top and is more delicate visually at the very top and then you're going to see where maybe it needs the final element we're in the detail what I call the detailing stage of the arrangement just a little bit of foliage that's kind of cool we'll use it right and that's looking your lips enhance the dock a little more and let's also use the dock in the back to fill in you had that wonderful curve so there's no real there's no real need to use any kind of additional filler in the arrangement because there's really not a whole lot of mechanics to cover all the floral illness themselves are covering up so see how from the side you've got not a straight back but it flares out just a little bit gives a more natural look from the side and we're going to do some of these elements make sure there's no unattractive spaces from the side also needs a little bit see how that's a little bit higher keeps you from having such a flat back makes them go more towards the what would you know is going to be the wall last piece so you start really planning as you're running on material how to best use them think that's it so what do you think [Music] so again I mean like one of the major major things to consider with a drive arrangement yes you never touch it again now what I would do after all of this is done is take some sort of clear spray that's matte finish and spray over the whole thing like you could put a plastic bag over the container tie it and then spray over the whole thing be careful about spraying eucalyptus and things like that because the matte even a clear will change the finish of a lot of drives but it'll be perfect for the hydrangea and everything else in this arrangement it might give things flat surfaces like the grass has a little bit of a matte satin sort of Sheen to it but it's not a bad thing most of these will never appear in really super bright light they'll be in some interior and and another thing too to show is that I made the front of the container not one of the squared sides but one of the the edges of the container moving forward as its front so just a little a little unexpected just a little different but I hope you like that and I hope you picked up some really good tricks and tips and that sort of thing as we are designed it look for a lot of the elements that I used in it as far as the sprays and the pillow there's links to purchase those in the description below please remember to Like and 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