My Floral Arrangments

I don't often sit down to do floral arrangements. This project started when I saw this simple inspiration arrangement while out shopping:

My Inspiration

I was able to find some large roses at the dollar store and had these vases for years, also from the dollar store.

My vases and roses

I also had these styrofoam balls and they fit into the  vases perfectly.  I used a knife to make the top of the foam level with the vase.  Depending on the arrangement, sometimes you have the foam a bit higher than the vase.

Materials Used

The next step was to secure the styrofoam to the vase using green duct tape.

Securing the styrofoam

I stripped most of the leaves off the artificial rose stem and glued them (with a glue gun) to the top of the foam to cover the base (completely). 

cover the base with leaves

Then I cut the rose off the stem with a wire cutter, leaving a few inches to be able to poke it through the styrofoam.  I put a bit of warm glue on the spot where I poked the rose through.  Here is the first vase completed!  I was happy with it.

first arrangement completed

How do you think it compares with the Inspiration arrangement?

The Inspiration Arrangement

The finished look

I had so much fun with this and I don't think this project  took me more than an hour!  It wasn't very messy either.  Using the glue gun is actually quite fun and it's so fast!