hi. i wanted to take youon a little flower tour of what's happening herein the beautiful mountains of north carolina in may. we're working withsome hydrangea foliage.
Wedding Party Silhouette Clip Art, and this will be reallybeautiful later this summer, with lots ofblossoms and blooms. and in the fall, itturns the beautiful. it has little specklesof burgundy in it.
we have weigela here. one of my favoriteflowers to work with because it canact both as a green and as a little punch of color. we have lupine here. this is something thatis really well known here in the mountains. we have a lot of this. a lot of this inthe area is what
you'll find growingsometimes at grocery stores. and of course, in backyardsand things like that. i have some lady's mantlehere today as well. i have a few ranunculus thati had left from-- that i just decided i didn't like withwhat i was doing for an event last week. so i have a few of thosethat i might incorporate. some ranunculus, i havesome beautiful tree peonies from the garden out front.
and then we have some poppies. and we actually still havetulips up in the mountains since our season starts a littlebit later than other people's. and then i have some prettyfun little apples from my apple tree out here in the backyard. so there's theingredients that we're going to be working with today. and i'm just going to show youa little technique for doing a simple hand-tied bouquet.
but i also wanted to talk alittle bit about efficiency as we go through it. so whenever you've gotyour studio set up, and you're working onan event or a wedding, a lot of timeswith the bouquets, if you just jump intomaking it without having a plan in place beforeyou go ahead with it, they can get really cumbersome. because you're tryingto strip a leaf here,
and trying to hold yourbundle of flowers here. so something thati really love to do is have someone help mestrip all of the leaves down to-- i'll just give thema little tutorial on where i'd like the leavesto be stripped to. and then, i-- especially if i'mdoing several bouquets-- rather than having it all laid outon the table like this-- which is just so that you can seewhat we're working with today-- i just have it in little vases.
the ingredients for eachbouquet would be in a vase. and they would just go through,and whatever my instructions were-- three stemsof the hydrangea and three stems of the weigelaand five stems of lupine. it would just will beall arranged there. so then that makes actuallyputting the bouquet together really, really easy. and you can have anotherbucket on the side of just an extra thing.
sp sometimes, these underratepieces to all work together. so you can trade out some piecesfrom maybe an extras bucket or something likethat, if you arrange. just a little thought toget you set up and going. but i like to holdmy bouquets, is just with a really open, loosegrip here, like a c. and i'm going tolayer these hydrangea pieces in and alittle bit of just a triangular, tripod shape.
so you just have two on oneside, one on the other side. so this is normallymy long piece. and then i have a mediumpiece and a shorter piece. it's how i start them. and then, i was a little gunshy to cut my weigela just because i wanted to seehow the pieces could form in my hand real quick. so that's one thing thati did not prep in advance. but i think i'm just goingto work with this hear.
and we might adjustit as we go along. but i'm going to gofor that one there. and then, i'm goingto clip this one. this is really one long piece. and i'm going to clipit into two pieces. so there is a littlebit of a shorter piece. just strip a few off ofthis to do a long piece. now i just stripthese off of here. this would make areally sweet boutonniere
or corsage ingredients. so you could put alittle vase there to collect those piecesas you move along throughout your arrangements. so i've got this one comingout to the side, this one here. and this one i'm going toput in the back and up high so that i keepeverything balanced. because i need tohave room in here as well to place some flowers.
and next, i'm goingto move from this-- the weigela has a really bright,punchy pink that goes and fades to more of a light pink. and i'm going to eventuallyget into incorporating a little bit of yellow in here. so i'm going to startwith my darkest lupine that just a hintof yellow in it. just hints of yellow,tiny little bit. i'm going find a spotto layer that in.
we'll go just about there. and next, i'm going to putin a piece of lupine that is even just a shadebrighter than the one that i just put in. and it also has a hint of yellowin it, but a little bit more than the one before. so we're just slowly and gentlyintroducing this next colored to the arrangement. next, we're goingto go for yellow.
i'm going to just lookand see if any of them have a slight pink hue to them. and that's how i'llbe bridging this gap. this one has just atiny little touch. so you can see how we'vemoved from dark to light. and now we're going to reallyfill out this yellow here on the other side. and then, when i'mtrying to decide where i want toput something, i'm
examining which way is thatnaturally pointing and making the line of the arrangement go. i've got this going here. i think it might be nice totry this to be an upswing since we've been goingdown on the other side. it might be nice tohave this pop up. and i'm about to addsome lady's mantle that will help supportthis a little bit better than it is right now.
so this is a little bitof a heavier ingredient. probably should have putthe lady's mantle in first to support thesesince they're heavier. so we'll just carry that colorback through with two pieces of loop and ruff. but i'm going to wait, andi might come back to those after i put a few morethings into the arrangement. so next, the purposeof this lady's mantle, you can see how there'sdifferent spikes.
this one in particularhas pretty sturdy stems. so what i like todo with this is to place it prettylow in the arrangement as a little bit of texture. but it's also addingsome stability so that as i continueto layer flowers in, they have something to catch onto and to be stabilized with. so i'm working withfive stems of this. if you're workingwith a lower budget,
you could maybejust do three stems. it just dependswhat the big picture of what you're looking like is. have some in the front, and thenworking it back in this way. again, going to fadethis one little piece that i have just incase if coming back, i decide i want toadd some more in. these ranunculus,i think these are going to act as a littlebit of an accent flower.
so again, i'm lookingthrough and i'm seeing out of all otherranunculus that i have, which one would be thebest fit for the pallet in that particular spot. because you can see, someof these are real dark, and then some are lighter. so what i would like to do isadd a little grouping of three of them here. paying attention to thesize a little bit as well.
putting the things that arethe smallest at the top. this one has a little bit morepurple as opposed to pink. and this one has alittle bit more pink. so i'm going to swap that out. and you want to have some voidback there behind your flowers so that they can reallypop out and shine. so you don't wantto put it here, how that's on the same level. put that up justa step above that.
next, i'm going to go, and i'mgoing to pop one back in here. and this is not acting somuch as a beautiful element of the bouquet as muchof it stability element. i can feel that there's a littlebit of movement back in there. so i'm just putting that thereto hold some things in place. i'll turn around, andwe'll work on the backside of it a little bit. you can see, this is a greatplace for this ranunculus that was darker, andjust a little bit
too much for this areaof the arrangement. back here, that's a greatlittle spot for that. it fits right in therewith that weigela. and then this one'sslightly darker. brings your eye up anda little bit of depth. and this one just a space filleras opposed to a [inaudible]. you just want tothink about what's the purpose of the flowerthat you're putting in there. and you use the really beautifulflowers, the stars of the shows
higher in the arrangement. and then some ofthese other ones that aren't as beautiful, youuse lower in the arrangement. now back here, i feel likei'm lacking some ingredients in this area. so it's great tosave-- like i said, we saved this onepiece of lady's mantle. and that fills that in andtakes care of that problem. i also feel like this onepiece of hydrangea greenery
is in the way of wheream i might like to put a focal flower in the future. so i'm just going to tug thatout, and add that back in here to bridge the gapbetween the lady's mantle and the end of this. so i have these other ranunculusthat are a little bit darker. but i think i'm going to pauseon putting those in for now. and i want to experiment and seewhat these focal flowers could look like in here, and how iwant those to be presented.
now that's going to happentoo, where something's going to slide out of place. you can just gentlycoax it back in. something i'm goingto do real quick is just to trim all ofthese because those lupine stems are thick, andthey're a little bit heavy. so whenever they'rerolling around down there, that can get them out ofplace a little bit as well. so if you just keep thistrimmed periodically,
that will helpwith that problem. and it'll also keepyour hand in good shape so that it doesn'ttire out too quick. i think it's very predictable tosink things right in this area. and you can, and i thinkthat that's pretty. and it's something thati like to do a lot. but have you everthought about putting some beautiful focalflowers off to the side in framing the silhouette?
just another way to thinkabout it and look at it. so we've got this movementcarrying back here the largest peony, and medium-sizedpeony and small peony. oh my goodness. look at this. [gasps] [laughs] oh wow. we'll just let him hang out. now on the backsidehere, we can still catch the color of these two.
we have this little stair stepwith the ranunculus that's really beautiful, and i thinkwill frame this peony really well. just going to pop thatright down in there. now, i'm going just adjust this. i had it towards the outside. but i'm going to pop thisright through the backside of the arrangement. and to make that just so thatthe orientation of the face
is a little bit different. to make that alittle bit easier, you can trim theends of your stems to be a little like anail so you can just pierce through there. so much easier thanstruggling and forcing it. ok, so that again is carryingthat line back that way. a few ingredients left. poppies, i call it alittle finishing flower.
and you can use them indifferent capacities, of course, but i like touse them as a little finish. something to float higherin the arrangement, just to finish it off. and then i go back,and we're going to look at this base areaof the arrangement as well. now again, i'm justnoticing the colors. some have slightly peachiertones to them, some more pink. so i'm justexperimenting and seeing
where would that onebest be showcased. think we have the darkpink side over here. that loop and howyou're carrying that. so i'd be privy to putover here in this area. you can wrap them inamong some other flowers to get it facing howyou'd like it to face. i might come back and popthose in at the very end, but i'm going to movetowards thinking about what's going on down here.
so we have thisexposed branch, so i'm going to adjust the hydrangeafoliage a little bit. and then i'm going to addsome tulips down in that area so we don't have anything thatisn't really beautiful being showcased at some pointwhile it's being carried. just going to waterfall,i guess you could call it. i don't know, i think ijust made that up, maybe. put those in there. and then i'm going to pop itoff with one up here, higher.
let's look at it from this side. ok. so that carried thetulips further back into the arrangement, ratherthan having it be flat. and the last thingi wanted to do was finish it off with someof these cute little apples down here, around the base. hm, i don't feellike i need that one. i like to give ita little shake.
these things can getheavy in your hands. i have some of these littlepeony leaves too left over. and these are great-- flatleaves are great for framing areas down here at the base. just going to pop that injust down in there low. i think i'm finished with that. what i might do at this point,if this was a bride's bouquet, is just set this aside. and i would go work on somethingelse for a little while.
maybe i'd do like aboutonniere or two. and then i would come backand look at it again because sometimes if you'reworking and you're solving all of these problems. when you're putting anarrangement together, you're solving a lotof little problems, like a little puzzle piece. and sometimes stepping awayfrom it just for a few minutes, and coming back, get yourselfsome water, a little granola
bar or something. and then come back to it. you'll see things thatyou didn't necessarily see whenever you're doing it first. so that's what i'mgoing to do right now. i'm going to takea little break. then i'll pop backin, and see if i want to switch anything up. so i've stepped awayfrom the arrangement.
and i've come back, and i'vequickly identified a few things that i wanted to switch up. so this is the backsideof the arrangement. and i was noticing thati lack some color here. and i have an opportunity tocarry this yellow a little bit further. and i have thesetwo stems of lupine left that we didn't use yet. and see how that went frombeing maybe not a whole lot
to-- then this just beingsomething that can pop in there and really finishthat back section off so it doesn't feel so empty. so that was one of myquick little adjustment. it carries this line withthe lupine the whole way through, as opposed tojust abbreviating that. and then, the otherthing i noticed is that i really wanted afinishing piece back here as so i have this poppy thatwe didn't use that i'm
going to incorporate back here. and i'm going to usethat hydrangea leaf frame that little guy. and then, the last thing thati noticed that i wanted to do is there's a spotright in here that i feel could lend itself to if thebouquet is being photographed from this side here. this little piece--and i accidentally tugged off one of itspetals earlier today.
and i thought i probablywon't use that-- but since we're tucking thisdown deep in here pretty low, we can actually disguise thatpedal is missing altogether. so a flower that may havegone to waste otherwise can still add some beautyto the arrangement. even if it's just the yellowcenter and all the petals come off, it's just a little pop ofcolor happening down in there that i think would be valuable. great.
so i'm going tocall that finished. the only thing wedidn't use were some of these were ranunculus,which were these pieces that we pulled off of theweigela would make a really sweet coordinatingboutonniere to go with this. so sometimes withboutonnieres, i'll maybe orderspecifically one thing. but i like to use pieces fromeverything else that i'm doing. it helps it to all coordinatea little bit better.
i'm just taking thetape around the stems, going that way in one direction. and then i'm going to gobackwards with the tape for a second. so that whenever iput my ribbon in here, i've got something to grab onto. and this little poppy justneeds to be supported. so i'm going to wraphim behind the apples since he is falling down.
a ribbon. this is just a simplesatin ribbon from may arts. it's great, all-purpose ribbon. and before i get that onthere, let's trim this off a little bit lower. feels like you'rereally trimming small. but the point of theflowers is flowers, so we don't need a lot ofstems going everywhere. so i've just foldedthat back, and then
wrapping this around,just real gently. i'm going to go aheadand cut this free. just want to arrangeit so that it's smooth. if your stems are in theway or making it impossible for it to be smooth, justsituate things a little bit. and get it so you canhave a smooth stem wrap. so right now, i'm on thebackside of the bouquet. and i'm going to moveover to the front because i'm going to finishthis off in the front.
so i'm going to put my thumbright here in the middle. and i have this one littletail that's popping up. this is such an easy, fast wayto do a nice, tailored edge quickly. this gets hidden back in here. and then right there,where your thumb is, you're just going topop a pin in there. and that grabs both thewrapping that you've done, and that also grabsthat second piece.
i might tug onemore back in there, just to make surethat's really secure. and then that justdrapes down like that. and you didn't haveto do anything extra. it's just real fast and easy. and now that i havethis in my hand, i see where theribbon's falling. i'm going to cut these stemseven shorter to their finished length.
and if i'm holdingthis in my hand, i just want a little bit poppingdown, don't need much at all. don't want to cut it soshort that it's not balanced, and that it's going to toppleover on you whenever you pop it in the vase and travel with it. it's ok to keep it pretty short. and you may, if you'retraveling-- obviously, not today-- but i'm going toleave it a little bit longer. and then do this final cutonce you get to the event venue
so that there's a freshcut on the flowers. but i wanted you to seethe end product as well. i'm just going to gentlylay this little guy down. and just give theseribbons a final snip. these are joyce chen clippers,and they're really great multi-purpose. they can go through wire. they can go through ribbon. they can go throughthe plants, branches.
all kinds of stuff. fabulous, fabulous scissors. if they get gunky, they'renot good for ribbon. all right. so that's it. that's our pink andyellow bouquet or tour of the mountains in may. [laughs] have a good one.
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