How to Make Floral Candle Rings using Fresh Flowers
Make this beautiful fresh flower candle ring in just a few simple steps.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Active Time20 minutesmins
Total Time30 minutesmins
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)
Fill a bowl or your sink with cool water and float the floral ring until it is saturated with water. About 1 minute.
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.
Once the greens are in place it looks like a mini green wreath.
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.
Continue adding the flowers going from larger to small.
As you place each flower look for open spots in the ring.
Continue to fill in.
If you have delicate flowers like these cosmos you may want to add them 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.