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Making a flower crown isn’t difficult once you master the mechanics needed for a seamless product. I promise! I often have other florists ask me to make flower crowns to complete their orders because they don’t feel they are capable. Is that you? Take a peek at this tutorial and add gorgeous flower crowns to your repertoire!
In this video, Kelly demonstrates how wiring flowers can help blooms be used in bridal bouquets and other floral applications in ways that would otherwise be impossible. This trick can be applied to multiple flower types!
Sue is sharing tips and mechanics on how to create foam-free floral design installations utilizing chicken wire and investing in a welder to create custom pieces for your collection. You’ll hear details about an install Sue is working on, as well as her inspiration and how it’s all coming together.
Wiring is a valuable and specialized skill that can add value to your business and set you apart as a designer and freelancer. Kelly explains why wiring is important—as well as when and where to use wired flowers—in this excerpt from the Team Flower Advanced Techniques for Wiring fast track class. The wiring technique gives you a lot of control over the exact placement and orientation of each and every bloom in a piece—if you need your focal flower to bend in a certain way that is not natural for its stem, wiring makes that possible!
In this video, Kelly Perry of Team Flower demonstrates how to wire flowers for a floral comb. Wiring is a very important part of a florist’s toolkit as it allows you to do so many different things with various types of flowers. For this floral comb, Kelly is using white hyacinth and pieris.
In this excerpt from the Team Flower Advanced Wiring Techniques class, Kelly demonstrates how to wire large, over-sized flowers. Wiring flowers is a skill that can be incredibly useful as a floral designer. Not only does it enable you to move and direct a bloom in a specific direction, but it also allows for extra support for top-heavy flowers.
Wiring leaves and flowers is such a helpful skill to have when doing small pieces like boutonnieres and gives you a lot of control on how the flowers lay and hold out of water. You’re able to bend each piece to fit and mold well with one another, and highlight those that need to be highlighted.
In this video, Kelly demonstrates two different ways to wire rose buds. These methods can be used in boutonniere's, corsages, and flower crowns and are excellent skills to add to you repertoire!
