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Elegant Floral Cone

By: Diane Flowers for STYROFOAM Brand Foam

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Cheap wedding decorations can also being beautiful wedding decorations! An Elegant Floral Cone will be an excellent addition to your decorations. Classy and easy, it's budget friendly, too!
 

Elegant Floral Cone

Materials: 

  • STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam Cone, 9" x 4"
  • Ivory/pink artificial roses with leaves, 10 stems
  • Reindeer moss: light green, 1/2 bag; dark green, 1/4 bag
  • Pink artificial butterfly
  • Ivory wire-edged organza ribbon, 2-1/2" x 7/8 yd.
  • Silver craft wire, 20-gauge
  • Floral pick or wooden skewer
  • Floral pins, two
  • Green floral tape
  • Ruler
  • Scissors
  • Wire cutters
  • Low-temp glue gun and glue sticks
  • Thick, white craft glue

Instructions:

  1. Glue clusters of light and dark moss to foam cone, completely covering surface.
     
  2. Using photo as guide, group roses and leaves on worksurface in pleasing arrangement. Roses should face forward andform slight arch. Use wire cutters to trim stems to fit within cone. Insert stems into cone base; fill in bare spots with leaves.
     
  3. Cut 24" length from wire. Loosely wrap wire around fingersto create interesting shape, leaving 2" straight tail at oneend. Wrap straight wire end around floral pick; wrap together with floral tape.
     
  4. Glue butterfly to free wire end; let dry. Insert pick intocone so butterfly appears to fly above roses.
     
  5. Cut inverted "v" into each ribbon end. Center ribbon overcone front, then wrap to back. Overlap ribbon ends at back,then wrap to front. Secure ribbon to cone back with floral pin. Overlap ribbon ends at front, forming "x" just above first ribbon. Secure "x" with floral pin. Glue small pieces of moss to cone to hide floral pins.
     
 
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