Leopard Print Flower Wrap

Ashe- Monique Wint · November 2009

Does anyone know where I can get leopard print farbic (for cheap with good quality) to wrap my floral bouquets in? Thanks

Catwoman708 · November 2009

Hand tied bouquets are usually wrapped with ribbon. Try your local fabric or craft store for leopard print ribbon or trim. Or you can buy a small piece of material and make a wrap out of material. To hold the wrapping closed, you can sew it up with a blind stitch, hot glue it, sew or glue on a velcro strip, sew on some snaps or pearl buttons, or pin it closed with corsage pins.

Ashe- Monique Wint · November 2009

ok thanks much!

Ashe- Monique Wint · November 2009

I found some leopard print ribbon...but what size do you recommend? They have a 3/8", a 7/8" and a 1 1/2" and they are 25 yards each. I if needed to wrap around four bouquets with it, how many rolls do you think I should get? You seem like you know about these things...help me I'm CLUELESS!

Catwoman708 · November 2009

There are different ways to wrap the bouquet stems, and it partly depends on if they are silk or fresh flowers. Some people just haphazardly wrap it with ribbon and tie it in a bow, and it looks and holds up just fine. I can tell you how I do it, but keep in mind it might be a little overkill. I'm just paranoid to have something fall apart in the middle of a ceremony, or have it look messy and uneven. I'd use the wider ribbon, the 7/8" or the 1.5". Allow 1 yard per bouquet for a simple, partial wrap (where the ends of the stems are left showing), or 2 yards each if you want the stems and ends fully covered, or a want a bow out of the ribbon. You will need some floral tape, either the stretchy "stem wrap" tape, or the "waterproof kind (looks like skinny green duct tape), some good scissors, floral shears for fresh flowers, or wire cutters for silk flowers, and possibly a hot glue gun and corsage pins. Secure the stems with floral tape, either all at once, or in small sections, taping the sections or additional flowers to the main part as you go. Just use small sections of tape, only at the middle of the stems that will be covered later with ribbon. Once you've got all the flowers where you want them, secure the center portion of the stems with floral tape, preferably the waterproof kind. I go ahead and wrap about the middle 1/3 of the stems, or the portion that will be covered by ribbon. Sometimes I use clear packing tape, to make a nice smooth surface for the ribbon. Trim the ends of the flowers straight and smooth. If using silk flowers, you might want to cover the wire ends with a little tape, or "padding" and cover the ends with ribbon. To hide the wires, and keep them from scratching or snagging anything. If you want the ends of the stems covered do that first. Take two shorter pieces of ribbon, about 4-5" each, and criss cross them flat across the ends of the stems, and tape them up where they won't show. Tuck in the edges/corners, like you are wrapping a present, and secure the folds with a tiny dot of hot glue if needed. Then to wrap the stems, I tape the first end and do one "lap" of ribbon to cover where it's secured. Then start winding the ribbon up at a slight angle, nice and evenly. I over lap the ribbon, leaving about a 1/2" showing for each "lap". At the top, secure the end with hot glue, or a corsage pin (or both). You will probably have a little corner left over, so tuck it behind the rest of the wrapped stem and glue it. Wow, this is long. To be continued ....

Catwoman708 · November 2009

When using fresh flowers, after the initial taping of the stems, get them in water. If the ends of the stems will be covered, I wrap the very ends with a sopping wet paper towel, and cover it with plastic wrap or even a baggie, so it doesn't leak out the bottom. Then I tape the plastic on to hold it in place, and finish taping up the stems, then wrap as usual. Be careful not to lay the bouquet down or turn it upside down, or the water will leak out. You can also do a vertical row of pearl tipped corsage pins stuck in the ribbon/stems at an angle (or cut some of it off with the wire cutters). It will look like a row of pearl buttons. You can also use other decorative buttons, like rhinestones. If they have the little button loop on the back, cut it off with the wire cutters, and hot glue it on. If you want to get fancy, you can take a sheer or contrasting colored ribbon and do a criss-crossed "corset wrap" pattern over the wrapped stems. Then do the pins or rhinestones at the twists of the ribbon, or in between. If you are doing a leopard print ribbon, it might look cool with a black "corset wrap" pattern over the leopard print. Or the opposite of the print over solid black. But that might end up looking busy. I'm kind of curious what type of flowers, what colors, and why leopard print? I didn't find many good pictures and couldn't get them to post anyway, but you can Google or do an image search on "bouquet stem wrapping" or some version of that and see if you get any ideas or tips.

Ashe- Monique Wint · November 2009

WOW! Thanks sooo much! My colours are royal blue, light blue and lime green with accents of ivory and gold

I absolutely adore anything leopard print and thought it would be a good idea to incooperate somehow within the wedding details I didn't want to do overkill so I figured why not wrap the bouquets or maybe jus mine with leopard print ribbon. I'm also using peacock feathers in the bouquets and centerpieces. What about you?

Catwoman708 · November 2009

Oh, Im not a bride, I'm a mom. I just do flowers as a hobby, and come here for ideas. I did my daughter's wedding flowers last year, and I do altar arrangements for our church a lot. I help with the occasional wedding for friends, or for church members. Plus I've been kicking the idea around about a part time job that is somehow related to flowers or weddings. A friend of my daughter's is getting married this month, and I was brushing up on the WP flowers. My daughter used fall colors for her reception, in deep reds, purples, rust, burnt orange, and ivory/gold. For the ceremony, she used more pastel versions of those colors in lavender, ivory, pale peach and pink. Black BM dresses. Other than that, she didn't have a particular color scheme.

Ashe- Monique Wint · November 2009

you should consider that as a part time job! your daughter's wedding sounds like it was gorgeous.once again, thanks for your help

Catwoman708 · November 2009

Thanks! Good luck with your flowers, hope it helps. Like I mentioned before, it might be overkill, but it's kind of hard to give written instructions without a visual demonstration/example.

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