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September 12th, 2009

Many people turn to a Christmas silk flower arrangement to decorate their homes during the Christmas holidays. You’ll find most arrangements come in a mix of green, red, and white Christmas poinsettias, along with a Christmas cactus or holly with green leaves and festive red berries. Once you look at the benefits of using silk flowers, however, you may wish to use them instead.

The major additional benefit that your silk flower will provide is that they are economical and long lasting. Another benefit is their simplicity makes them easy to make before the start of the busy holiday season. You’ll need pliers and wire cutters to manipulate the wires of your Christmas silk flower arrangement, along with a storage container, floral adhesive, flora tape, foam, and tape.

In addition to being light in weight, your container for Christmas silk flower arrangement shouldn’t be too wide or too narrow. To begin, make a large silk flower arrangement in an urn-shaped container. Next, choose flowers of different textures to give a sense of variety to the arrangement. Also, as you are buying your flowers, holly, or berries – which, of course, should match the color of your room and give it a festive look – examine the edges carefully. You will want edges that look natural over edges that are damaged or frayed.

Then you should start arranging the flowers. Open each flower in a manner that reveals its actual shape. The foam is where the stems of the flowers should go. If you need to have longer stems, attach a piece of floral wire at the end of each stem, using floral tape. Continue to make your Christmas silk flower arrangement with varying sizes of stems. Your arrangement will have more shape with this altering, and will be more attractive as a whole.

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August 29th, 2009

For those considering ways to include a more festive look to their home this Christmas season, they should consider adding an arrangement that includes a Christmas silk flower. You’ll find most arrangements come in a mix of green, red, and white Christmas poinsettias, along with a Christmas cactus or holly with green leaves and festive red berries. You might instead wish to use silk flowers to reap the same benefits.

While both silk flowers and traditional arrangements offer beauty and festivity, only silk flower arrangements are economical and long lasting. An additional benefit is that they are very easy to make and can therefore be prepared seasons before the rush of the Christmas holiday sets in. In order to adequately prepare your Christmas silk flower arrangement, you will need a pair of pliers to bend wires, along with a container, wire cutters, floral adhesive, flora tape, foam and tape.

When you pick your container for the Christmas silk flower arrangement, be certain to pick one that is the right width, neither too wide nor too narrow.

Begin by making a decent sized silk floral arrangement in a container that is urn-shaped. Next, choose flowers of different textures to give a sense of variety to the arrangement. Picking the right color of the silk flowers, holly, and berries is of course very important, as is examining their edges carefully before buying. Reject frayed or damaged edges over ones that look fresh and natural.

Then you should start arranging the flowers. Each flower should be unfolded widely in a manner that shows its actual shape. The flower stems should go into the foam. Adding floral wire to the ends of the stems will lengthen the stems of your flowers. The nicest looking Christmas silk flower arrangements have a variety of stem sizes. Your arrangement will then have added beauty and shape definition.

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