The World of Cut Flowers

Dried flower swags look wonderful over doorways, and archways. They are wonderful additions to a room if you want to add a touch of subtle elegance and enhance the beauty and warmth of a room. Read our instructions to find out how you can make your own dried flower swags.

For this you will need:

·        A 10” wire wreath frame with soldered clamps

·        Wire cutters

·        About 100 green eucalyptus tips, sized between 6 and 16”

·        3 oz. Preserved baby’r breath, sized between 6 and 10”

·        3 oz. Preserved statice in lilac, white, purple and blue

·        Preserved lemon leaves

·        Wire

·        3 yards wire edged gold ribbon

·        3 yards wire edged ribbon in desired color

·        Gold glitter mist

·        Pale gold highlighter

Cut the wreath wire frame and bend it open to the shape of a swag and place it with the clamps down.

Make a bouquet for each of the 10 clamps. At the left outermost bouquet, use six of the longest pieces of eucalyptus tips so that the pieces are arched to the left. To this add a stem of baby’s breath, a stem of lemon leaves, another stem of baby’s breath, about six stems of varied colours of the statice and a last stem of baby’s breath along with medium length stems of eucalyptus. Repeat on the other side so everything arches to the right.

Make each pile into a bouquet and tie the end with a wire for ease in putting it in the frame. Twist the right outermost clamp so the bouquet arches to the right about an inch from the bottom and repeat this with the left side too.

Make another six bouquets of which three will be for either side of the swag. The flower arrangement would be exactly like the first bouquet you made, and use medium length flowers and foliage for these. Start attaching these to the clamps, working your way towards the center in a way that each bouquet overlaps the previous one. The center will have the bouquets with the shortest flowers on each last clamp on the side.

 Spray the swag with gold glitter mist and touch up the eucalyptus tips with pale gold highlights. Tie a four-loop bow with the ribbon and tie its center with wire. Attach it to the center of the swag and follow up with another smaller bow in gold and tuck in the ends through the foliage. Use glue if required to do this.