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How to Make Floral Candle Rings using Fresh Flowers

Make this beautiful fresh flower candle ring in just a few simple steps.
Prep Time10 minutes
Active Time20 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Author: Stephanie LeBlanc

Instructions

  • Gather a collection of fresh flowers. Start by choosing your color scheme and then pick out some greenery, medium to small flower blooms as well as fillers (small branchy blooms like caspia, babies breath, wax flower, etc)
    white cosmos flower
  • Fill a bowl or your sink with cool water and float the floral ring until it is saturated with water. About 1 minute.
    plastic ring supporting the wet flower foam.
  • Using your design knife or scissors begin cutting the greens to 2"-3" pieces and inserting the stems into the ring. work in the same slanted direction and be sure to fill the sides as well as the top. The key is to use the greens to cover the foam.
    adding greenery to the ring
  • Once the greens are in place it looks like a mini green wreath.
    all the greens added to the ring
  • Next starting with your larger flowers begin to cut them short (approx 2" to 3") and place them into the foam. This is a mixed flower design so place them evenly throughout the ring.
    adding cone flowers to the floral foam ring
  • Continue adding the flowers going from larger to small.
    add additional flowers
  • As you place each flower look for open spots in the ring.
    process photo
  • Continue to fill in.
    semi - finished candle ring.
  • If you have delicate flowers like these cosmos you may want to add them last.
    delicate flowers going in last

Notes

Fresh Flowers included in this design are baptisia, dara, cone flowers, bachelor buttons, scabiosa/pin cushion flowers, veronica, cosmos, queen Anne's lace, basket flower, celosia.