Thread: Flower arrangements

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Here are a few flower arrangements I did for my Halloween party (crappy cell phone pictures again ).

This one was inspired by one I saw at Michaels. They were asking $60 for it which I thought was outrageous! I made mine for $18.


I saw an arrangement in a Martha Stewart Halloween magazine a few years ago and just fell in love with it. I've been trying to recreate it ever since and this is the closest I've come. Still not perfect but I'm happy with it.


These flowers are my favorite so far but I'm not sure that I like them in this vase. Opinions would be great!

wow these look great

Rikki,
very nice arrangements,I like the 2nd one. pretty sad Michaels is so expensive when it comes to their flower arrangments,I get silk flowers at wholesale cost for my business and even when you add the 2.5 and the hourly design fee,they still tend to add more cost for the finale total.

again,very nice

Absolutely delightful! I am sooo impressed!

Rikki, there seems to be no end to your mad craft skills. Those look excellent.

I think, for the third set, maybe a slightly more ornate, possibly gothic, vase. I love it the way it is also.

Thanks everybody! Rookie, I think you're right about the vase. Darn...that means spending more money. Maybe I can find one on sale.

check the thrift stores or yard sales.

Ooh I love the recreation of the Martha Stewart flowers. I lust after those flowers every year!

The Martha arrangement is my favorite too//Love it, giving me ideas.Thanks for sharing!!

I don't think the container need be too expensive, not if you're good with dimensional art. You could make weird, twisted vases from air-dry clay, Crayola Model Magic or Magic-sculp (google it, it rules). Or use these materials to add texture and form to an existing vase.
You could use a really plain vase and use latex, latex-dipped spider web, mache or 'great stuff' spray foam and loads of paint.

These materials could give you vases that look like warped tree trunks, or the faces of the tormented, or just Hellraiser-style flesh and bone. You could layer on leaves and paint them in fall colors, or something so corroded and mishapen with time it has lost most of it's definition, something completely covered with insects or something claimed as a nest by a prolific spider.
I see a lot of potential with making Halloween vases from plain plastic containers.


BTW, Rikki, love the yellow roses and black leaves, makes me wonder what orange-hued roses would look like.