The Basic Corsage: Fresh
Flower Corsage Technique Corsages are actually three boutonnieres you put together. Use odd numbers for your flowers...you want one, three, or five flowers in your corsage. Gather your flowers together and tape stem wrap around the stems. Floral tape or stem wrap comes in green and white. Now add your baby's breath, gypsophilia, tiny forget me nots or whatever filler you have chosen. This should be placed sparingly between the flowers. Now place your corsage leaves over the stems below the flowers. You can now wrap it all together with floral tape. Trim your stems if you need to. Add your ribbon bow. Wrap the stems in ribbon if you want. Put a corsage pin into the stems to use later. You may need to use some wiring techniques to support your flowers heads :To see more on wiring and taping techniques - See more information on working with fresh flowers The Basic Corsage: Silk Flower Corsage Technique:Use wire cutters to shorten stems. The wire stem of the flower and green can usually be utilized instead of rewiring and taping. If you need only one, two or three inches of stem, use stem wrap over it first and cut it to the desired length.
If you need the stem to be longer, lighter or more pliable, cut the stem below the flower to three or four inches and tape a floral wire over it.
Filler flowers and greens can be added to each flower with hot glue. Filler flowers can be babies breath, corsage rose leaves or any smaller flowers that will accent the main flower in the corsage.
Single cluster corsage: Add
the filler and greens to the flower by wrapping the wire stems of
each around the flower. Always add the filler first to surround
the flower and the greens last to frame it in. Cut excess wire off
after wrapping around twice. This keeps the cluster from getting
too heavy Adding clusters
together: Make
three to five single clusters. Wrap the stem of one around the
next to form the corsage. A bow can be added at any point by wrapping
its wire onto a cluster. Materials
needed: How do I pin a corsage on? A corsage should gently bend over the collar bone. Do not pin to far down. The wearer should be able to turn her head slightly and be able to smell the corsage. If you are following the floral design technique lessons continue with " How to make a boutonnière" |
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